For more than 20 years, Tel Aviv violin maker Amnon Weinstein and his son Avshalom have collected and restored instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust — instruments often lost or ...

They say great music is timeless. At a concert Thursday in a Chicago-area synagogue, it's the instruments — specifically the violins — that carried decades of history and profound symbolism. They once ...

Inside San Francisco’s War Memorial Veterans Building, a group of carefully chosen Bay Area musicians gingerly draw their bows across the strings of 49 historic violins, a viola and a cello. Some of ...

CALGARY, Alberta, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Music Centre (NMC), in partnership with the Calgary Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary is pleased to ...

PITTSBURGH — 11 Cares and our partners are teaming up to help instruments get into the hands of students and schools in need. We’re hosting an instrument collection at Channel 11 this Saturday with ...

PITTSBURGH — Join WPXI and our partners for the 11 Cares Violins of Hope Instrument Collection. Drop off used string, woodwind and brass instruments at WPXI-TV on Saturday, Sept. from 9 a.m. to noon.

A collection of stringed instruments, largely silent for seven decades, is giving voice to the horrors of the Holocaust. The “Violins of Hope” were once owned by the inmates of Nazi concentration ...

One day in the late 1980s, a graying man, with a prisoner identification number tattooed on his arm, walked into a Tel Aviv shop that sold and repaired violins. The aging customer, a survivor of the ...

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Exhibition centered around Holocaust education and the power of music to take place at Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre, from May 3, 2024, to June 16, ...