CHICAGO — For two decades, a father and son duo have quietly collected and repaired over 70 violins used by victims and survivors of the Holocaust. “I opened the violin,” Amnon Weinstein said, ...
In Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...
David Gross knew right away what he had to do. In November 2018 the executive director of the Reading Symphony Orchestra was invited to visit Fort Wayne, Ind. The symphony’s music director, Andrew ...
The 38 violins, some worn and all silent, displayed at the University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery brought tears to my eyes this week. It's not the instruments themselves — though some are ...
One by one, they arrived in a Tel Aviv violin maker’s studio: broken, scratched and disfigured, as damaged as their former owners, but also cherished before the tragedy of the Holocaust irrevocably ...