VIOLINS OF HOPE EXHIBITION OPENING

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Exhibition runs March 18–April 19 Sat-Thurs 10am-5pm | Friday 10-2:00p

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is proud to participate in the southern California premiere of Violins of Hope, a project that uses a special collection of violins, violas and cellos to educate about the Holocaust and celebrate the triumph of the human spirit.

MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES WITH VIOLINS OF HOPE — Music has the Power to Heal and to Bring Hope

Temple Ahavat Shalom

email: efrat.yakobi-gafni@heschel.com

OPENING GALA CONCERT with Maestra Dr. Noreen Green leading the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, with Lindsay Deutsch violin soloist and Lynn Harrell cello soloist

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at CSUN (Ticketed event, website)

Playing the finest of the rescued instruments, performing Schindler’s List Suite, Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem Suite, and Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra by Sid Robinovitch.

CADENCE FOR A CAUSE

Harvard-Westlake Middle School

A club of Harvard-Westlake Middle School Music Department students who play free concerts for the local underserved community, such as People Assisting the Homeless. Musical highlight, Schindler’s List, and audio-visual presentation of restored instruments and history with Avshi Weinstein.

VIOLINS OF THE SHOAH — Instruments of Hope and Liberation Stories which Celebrate the Triumph of the Human Spirit

Heschel Day School

concert streamed world-wide.

email: efrat.yakobi-gafni@heschel.com

ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, Lahav Shani, Conductor and Piano

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at CSUN

Featuring Tel Aviv native Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Shani acquired prominence among the world’s conductors when he was chosen to succeed Zubin Mehta as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

VIOLINS OF HOPE CENTENNIAL EVENT

Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Westwood

Exhibition runs March 18–April 19 Sat-Thurs 10am-5pm | Friday 10-2:00p

310 475-7000

mail: juliah@sephardictemple.org

MOSTLY KOSHER WITH VIOLINS OF HOPE Violins of Hope video followed by concert

Temple Israel of Hollywood

www.tioh.org/arts 323 876-8330 ext 2006

Video Introduction to Violins of Hope, presentation and discussion with Amnon Weinstein about his inspiration to create Violins of Hope project. Musical performance by Mostly Kosher.

Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic and Legal Voices VIOLINS OF HOPE TRIBUTE CONCERT Honoring Holocaust Survivors and Those who Perished. Music Director Gary S. Greene, Esq.

Wilshire Ebell Theatre debra@lalawyersphil.org

Maestro Greene will lead a musical program of reverence and respect. From works of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Verdi to works by composers in exile and to contemporary works by John Williams (Schindler’s List), Ernest Gold (Exodus) and Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof).

CONCERT, PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION WITH AMNON WEINSTEIN about his inspiration to create Violins of Hope project

Milken Community School with UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND THE RESTORED INSTRUMENTS OF VIOLINS OF HOPE with Amnon Weinstein

Valley Beth Shalom Day School

SINAI AKIBA ACADEMY CONCERT with youth orchestra

Sinai Akiba Academy, Sinai Temple

VIOLINS OF HOPE AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by Delirium Musicum

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Bram Goldsmith Theater

310 746-4000

Violins of Hope documentary followed by special concert by L.A. based Delirium Musicum performing on Violins of Hope instruments.

RICORDANZA, (REMEMBRANCE) American Youth Symphony in collaboration with Violins of Hope

Pre-concert lecture in the West Lobby of Royce Hall 5:30 pm

Royce Hall at UCLA

(Ticketed event, FREE, reservations required) aysymphony.org/concerts-and-events/tickets AYS proudly presents the U.S. premiere by acclaimed composer and educator Richard Danielpour, performing on Violins of Hope instruments with Vladimir Chernov, baritone soloist.

JERUSALEM QUARTET

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at CSUN

The Jerusalem Quartet will perform works by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Brahms. The group debuted in 1996 and has since carried on the string quartet tradition with their award-winning performances and recordings.

Violins of Hope history and musical performance

California State University

Fullerton Arts Week

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Children’s Concert

Jewish Youth Orchestra and High School Students performing. 323 651-3704

http://www.lamoth.org/exhibitions/

New West Symphony Meet the Artist

Performance and interview University Village, Thousand Oaks.

Reservations required, 866-527-1204

Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts,

Yom Hashoah Shabbat Service, dedicated to Violins of Hope.

www.bhtota.org

Violins of Hope and New West Symphony

Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Kavli Theatre

(Ticketed event, newwestsymphony.org/violins-of-hope-old)

Music Director Michael Christie, performing Alfred Newman’s Diary of Anne Frank Suite, and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Fourth Symphony, Heichalos, written expressly for Violins of Hope.

Stories from The Violins of Hope

Temple Isaiah Theatrical/musical performance

World Premiere, created by Jewish Women’s Theater and LA Jewish Symphony music performed by members of the LAJS Chamber Players. (Tickets: www.jewishwomenstheatre.org)

Yom Hashoah: Holocaust Memorial program dedicated to Violins of Hope

Valley Outreach Synagogue, Calabasas

Stories of Hope

Pacific Visions Theater, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach (Ticketed event, website)

For tickets to all Long Beach programs:

longbeachsymphony.org/concerts-events 562 436-3203 ext 1

Book signing and lecture by James Grymes, author of Violins of Hope, Instruments of Hope and liberation to Mankind’s Darkest Hour.

Musicologist/author

James A. Grymes will discuss his book, followed by a mini-concert

Ticketed event: (310-200-6694)

Violins of Hope

Terrace Theater, Long Beach

Performing Arts Center. Long Beach Symphony Music Director Eckart Preu, featuring Niv Ashkenazi (Ticketed event) The Long Beach Symphony will perform Hatikvah from Munich (Williams), Theme from Schindlers List (Williams), Symphony No. 1, 2nd Mvmt, Psalm (Ben-Haim) & Requiem (Verdi)

Songs of Hope

First Congregational Church of Long Beach (Ticketed event)

Intimate Chamber Concert and song cycles by Jewish composers who either survived or perished at the hands of the Nazis.