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Violinist Cookie Segelstein of the klezmer band Veretski Pass will play several of the Holocaust violins that have come to the Bay Area for the Violins of Hope series.
Posted inCulture

For local daughter of survivor, playing Holocaust violins is personal

by Andrew Muchin January 14, 2020

Fiddler Cookie Segelstein can’t remember a time when the Holocaust was not a topic of conversation with her European-born survivor parents. “I grew up with this stuff,” the Kansas City […]

Photos of violins like this one, made in Germany around 1870, will be featured in one of dozens of Violins of Hope events, January through March around the Bay Area. (Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

‘Violins of Hope’ escaped the Holocaust and are coming to Bay Area for events of music and memory

by Andrew Muchin January 8, 2020January 9, 2020
Violinist Gil Shaham (Photo/Luke Ratray)
Posted inMusic

Violin virtuoso Gil Shaham brings his ‘favorite recital’ to Bay Area

by Dan Pine April 23, 2019April 24, 2019
Itzhak Perlman enters the ballpark before playing the national anthem at a New York Mets game in 2016 (Photo/Courtesy Greenwich Entertainment)
Posted inCulture

‘Itzhak’ reveals genius and generosity of one of the great violin superstars

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier April 2, 2018April 3, 2018
Zukerman playing violin
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Israeli virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman to present local concerts

by Rob Gloster February 17, 2017February 16, 2017

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