SANTA CRUZ – In 1982, when working on the music for a Berkeley production of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” pianist Ivan Rosenblum began getting ideas for a piece that would capture the horrors of the ...

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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 ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust – and the New World Symphony remembers. Michael Linville, dean of instrumental performance at NWS, says it’s ...

A new documentary at the Heartland film festival tells the story of Frank Grunwald, who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps as a young boy. Grunwald grew up in Prague, where he and his family ...

Two Rivers Media has secured a commission from BBC Arts for “The Last Musician of Auschwitz,” a feature documentary set to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The ...

Alecia Lawyer may start off ROCO’s latest concert, “We Were the Music,” with breathing exercises. “I think I want to start the whole concert where I come out and have the audience breathe with me a ...

For the last 15 years, New York pianist Jeanne Golan has been recording and performing the works of composers persecuted by the Nazis as part of what has come to be known as the recovered voices ...