The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

"Remember me, Remember us", is a Missing Voices concert with soprano, Lily Arbisser and pianist, Dimitri Malignan from Paris, joined by violist Deanna Petre. Missing Voices sheds light on the irreparable loss of Jewish classical music composers during the Holocaust.

Ballet Quad Cites is honored to present an original program of dance pieces that embody the stories, emotion, the history and hope surrounding the Holocaust.

The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

The Violins of Hope: A Musical Witness to History program brings the purpose and impact of the project directly into classrooms throughout the Quad Cities region. Each visit features live performances by Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians alongside a Holocaust Education Committee host who co-presents, guides discussion, and actively engages students.

The Muscatine Symphony Orchestra presents its season finale concert, Valor and Triumph. This evening of inspiration features music written in response to adversity, hardship, and sometimes war, celebrating the resilience of the human spirit. Works by Gershwin, Perttu, and Tchaikovsky headline the program.

Experience a moving Masterworks finale presented in partnership with Violins of Hope. Bach’s beautiful Concerto for Two Violins features Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz and members of the orchestra performing on historic violins, symbols of resilience, hope, and remembrance.

Featuring pianist Leigh Pirtle of Burlington and violinist Jeffrty Phillips, the duet will open with a short explanation of the Violins of Hope project and the connection of the violin to Anne Frank.

Experience a moving Masterworks finale presented in partnership with Violins of Hope. Bach’s beautiful Concerto for Two Violins features Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz and members of the orchestra performing on historic violins, symbols of resilience, hope, and remembrance.

Through slides of family pictures, documents, maps, and first-hand accounts in letters written by Markus and Anna and members of the Mattes family, we learn of the couple’s witness to the beginnings of the Holocaust, and their desperate attempts to escape Nazi Germany to join their children, who found a home in the Quad Cities.

Ballet Quad Cites is honored to present an original program of dance pieces that embody the stories, emotion, the history and hope surrounding the Holocaust.

Experience powerful masterpieces paired with emotionally resonant works, embodying remembrance, resilience, and hope, including Steve Reich’s Different Trains.

Yom HaShoah, translated, means “Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust.” For more than four decades, this has been marked in the Quad Cities by a service of mourning and hope which unites persons of all faiths in remembrance of the great human tragedy of the Holocaust.

This special morning concert brings thousands of 8th-grade students together for a shared educational experience presented as part of Violins of Hope during Tolerance Week.

The centerpiece public event of Violins of Hope during Tolerance Week, this evening concert brings the historic instruments to the Orpheum Theatre for a deeply moving program of music, reflection, and remembrance.

Set within the Holocaust Rails exhibit, this intimate chamber concert offers a deeply personal Violins of Hope experience.

Robinson Yost, Ph.D. presents “The Holocaust by Bullets: The Twisted Path to Auschwitz” during a Kaffe and Kuchen event. This is the final day the international exhibition Violins of Hope is on display at the German American Heritage Center and Museum.