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A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had ...
After all, a nickname like ‘The Big Dreidel,’ is pretty niche. “Cal Raleigh started calling me ‘The Big Dreidel’ because I spin the ball,” Thornton told the Herald on Thursday ...
The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the ...
“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...
A violin made in 1941 inside the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was found to contain a hidden note from its maker, Polish Jewish prisoner Franciszek Kempa BUDAPEST, Hungary -- During World War ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted ...
church music and forced singing. All known instruments that survived Dachau are believed to have been brought in by prisoners. Kempa’s ‘violin of hope’ as it has been named, is the only known ...
This image obtained from AP video shows a tag with the text ''K.L. Dachau'' seen through the f-holes of a Dachau-built instrument dubbed the ''violin of hope'' in Magyarpolány, Hungary ...
“Competitions like Classic Violin Olympus remind us of the human element in music, of the vulnerability, the passion and the connection between performer and audience. These things are ...
A handwritten and hidden tag in Silesian dialect (mix of Polish and German) inside a Dachau-build instrument dubbed the ‘’violin of hope’’ reads: ‘’Trial instrument, made under ...
The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...