Virtuoso violinist Niv Ashkenazi in a special performance on a Violin of Hope, one of about 50 such instruments miraculously salvaged from the Holocaust and restored by Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein.
Program includes: John Williams: Theme from “Schindler’s List”. J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor – Adagio. Ernest Bloch: Nigun from “Ba’al Shem Suite (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life)”. George Perlman: Dance of the Rebbetzin from “Suite hébraïque, No. 2”.
