SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18th at 6:15pm
Please join us for Music, Memory, and Promise: A Benefit Concert on December 18th. The Jewish Collaborative of Orange County in partnership with Chamber Music OC will hold a concert at 7:00pm. In-person attendance is limited to 70 people. Click here to purchase tickets. Click here for sponsorship information.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit both the Jewish Collaborative's Jewish community arts partnerships and initiatives, as well as Chamber Music OC's Irv Weinstein Memorial Scholarship Fund. Donations can be made when registering for tickets and/or at the performance. Seating is limited. Purchase tickets here.
We are also d
elighted to be partnering with Violins of Hope Los Angeles. At the December 18 program the musicians will be performing on violins, viola and a cello rescued from the Holocaust. These instruments serve as a memorial to those whose lives were lost.
The Violins of Hope are a collection of more than 50 restored instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. These instruments have survived camps, pogroms, and many long journeys to tell remarkable stories of injustice, suffering, resilience, and survival.
Susanne Reyto, Chair of Violins of Hope, Los Angeles County, will join us for the evening. During the pre- and post-concert receptions attendees will have the opportunity to view a selection of instruments learn about them from Susan.
Chamber Music OC is an arts initiative dedicated to promoting the art of chamber music through performance, education, and community engagement. With overwhelming support from the Southern California community, the organization has grown into one of the most exciting arts entities in the classical music industry impacting thousands of lives every year through a portfolio of diverse program offerings.
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The mission of Violins of Hope is to educate audiences about the Holocaust through music and culture using a collection of violins, violas and cellos rescued from the Holocaust and restored by Israeli luthiers Amnon and Avshi Weinstein.
Included in the collection is a violin played in the Auschwitz orchestra and one used on the Kindertransport. Some were played by Jewish inmates in Nazi concentration camps; others belonged to the Klezmer musical culture, which was all but destroyed by the Nazis. These instruments were silenced by World War II.
After painstaking restoration, however, they have new life and sound, giving voice to a generation lost in the Holocaust. They restore hope, the strength of the human spirit and the power of music. It is proof of the victory of life over death and memory over oblivion.
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