On November 17, 1983, Elie Wiesel began his Westminster Town Hall Forum speech “Why Hate?” on memory and the Holocaust by saying, “The best thing one can do at noon on a Thursday is to tell stories.” Now, more than 42 years later, we gather anew to consider the power of stories and the role […]
This powerful program features violins once played by Holocaust survivors, each instrument carrying a story of resilience, loss and hope. Through music inspired by Jewish traditions, the concert honors memory while lifting the spirit. The program includes stirring string solos and a performance of Shostakovich’s Quartet, featuring SPCO’s principal string players. It’s a deeply moving […]
This powerful program features violins once played by Holocaust survivors, each instrument carrying a story of resilience, loss and hope. Through music inspired by Jewish traditions, the concert honors memory while lifting the spirit. The program includes stirring string solos and a performance of Shostakovich’s Quartet, featuring SPCO’s principal string players. It’s a deeply moving […]
This powerful program features violins once played by Holocaust survivors, each instrument carrying a story of resilience, loss and hope. Through music inspired by Jewish traditions, the concert honors memory while lifting the spirit. The program includes stirring string solos and a performance of Shostakovich’s Quartet, featuring SPCO’s principal string players. It’s a deeply moving […]
Internationally renowned musicologist James A. Grymes discusses his National Jewish Book Award–winning book Violins of Hope, a powerful account of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. The book also tells the story of Israeli violinmakers Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, who restore these instruments and the histories they carry. Grymes explores how the violin […]
This moving performance brings together beautiful orchestral music and historic instruments that once belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. Restored and preserved, the Violins of Hope serve as living symbols of resilience, remembrance, and the enduring power of the human spirit. Featuring soloist Marc Levine and the Baal Shem Suite by Ernest […]
Join us for an afternoon of photography and memory with photographer Daniel Levin, featuring an exhibit reception, artist talk, and book signing for Violins and Hope: From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall—winner of the 2022 Independent Publisher National Book of the Year. Levin is the first photographer to document, in extraordinary depth, the Tel Aviv […]
"All of a sudden there was music. And hope.” Hope / Tikvah is a showcase of teen-created artwork, featuring pieces made in response to a single prompt: Make hope visible. Show us what it means to you. Inspired in part by our community’s Violins of Hope residency—and the story of one violin once played by […]
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