Horrible seeing Elina Vähälä’s $1-million Guadagnini violin get knocked out of her hands by conductor Matthew Halls. Halls was fired by the Oregon Bach Festival in 2017 for "alleged discrimination against women and a person of color", maybe a second chance for him was a bad idea. pic.twitter.com/0bTw9vRxPz
— slimzim (@jameszimmermann) April 17, 2026

