The “artist-reporter” Allan Rohan Crite’s straightforward depictions of ordinary Black city life challenged simplistic assumptions. Allan Rohan Crite painted “Bass Violin Player” in 1941 and gave it, ...

Encased in glass, each violin represent a heartbreaking story. Jewish musicians played these instruments in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust for survival, resistance or comfort.

More than five years after the city hosted a traveling exhibition of instruments that were played before and during the Holocaust, a companion program will be seen in Fort Wayne next month. “Violins & ...

A new exhibition that opened Nov. 5 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' but seeing these 24 instruments - each of which has some ...

Before Sandor Fisher and his wife Valeria escaped the camps of World War II, the Jewish couple survived because of their ability to play violin. Sandor played the instrument until the end of his life, ...

Explore a collection of instruments once played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. This documentary tells the story of the Violins of Hope exhibit. This collection of precious instruments, once ...

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 ...

James Grymes has a distinguished career as a professor of musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He's spent years of his life studying music and learning how to distill ...