Written By: David Roden on
May 8th, 2008
Last month, violinist Philippe Quint got out of a taxicab in Manhattan - and left his $4 million dollar Stradivarius violin behind.
You might think, "This is not going to end happily." But it did. The next morning, Quint had his instrument back, and taxi driver Mohammed Khalil had a $100 tip. The city of Newark awarded Khalil a medal for his honesty.
But that wasn’t the end of it. Quint wanted to do something more for his driver. So, on Tuesday (6 May 2008) he gave a concert for Khalil and about 50 of his cabbie friends, at Newark Liberty International Airport, by the taxicab holding area, outdoors.
The drivers danced.
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