The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the Holocaust, is coming to the West Coast. “The Violin Maker” will have its ...
In January 2021, The Braid, the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Chamber Players (LAJSCP), and Temple Isaiah honored International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the world premiere of Stories From the ...
Editor’s note: Theater Critic Sean McMullen has handed over The Showbuzz to the Grunion’s Pinch of Salt Columnist Harry Saltzgaver for the week. A tour de force. It’s hard to think of a better ...
Father-and-son luthiers (violin makers) Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, Israeli co-founders of Violins of Hope, brought their traveling collection of instruments retrieved and restored from the ...
Some Jewish musicians delayed death and even survived the Holocaust by playing in orchestras at extermination camps. It was particularly true for those who were classically trained and able to read ...
Violins of Hope is a collection of instruments that survived the Holocaust. A father-son duo has restored them. Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra is hosting a Violins of Hope residency in Milwaukee ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - A violin thrown some seventy years ago from a train transporting French Jews to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp will sound in the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic on Tuesday ...