A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The North Carolina-based duo Blue Cactus is celebrating the release of their third record "Believer ... Blue Cactus recently caught up with WUNC Music Reporter Brian Burns to talk about the ...

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 ...

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, ...

“Dachau. Anno 1941, Franciszek Kempa.” Recommended Videos The origins of the violin, built in 1941 by Franciszek “Franz” Kempa while imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau in southern ...

At 4 a.m. on Monday morning, I awoke with a start, turned on the radio and heard the bulletin about the death of Pope Francis. The news was shocking. Only the day before, the Pope was driven in ...