All the instruments that are part of Violins of Hope are artifacts from the Holocaust in some form or fashion, whether stowed away in hiding, ferried with refugees to parts unknown or even taken into camps.
Among those helping arrange the instruments was Mina Zikri, music director of the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra. An assistant to conductor Daniel Barenboim, he has long been associated with the former Chicago Symphony music director’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which brings together musicians from the Middle East in hopes of cultivating cultural exchange between Palestinians and Israelis.
A provenance label inside of a vintage violin indicates this instrument was played in the Auschwitz Orchestra. “I’m Coptic, which is a minority in Egypt. I grew up with a completely different narrative about Israel and Judaism and all of that. It’s only when I worked with Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra that I learned the narrative I grew up with was more political than anything else,” Zikri says. “This is an opportunity to be introduced to a humanistic message.”
“It was a ticket to survival and to creating a generational family. Now, the legacy of music is playing out in the family,” says Addie Goodman, president and CEO of JCC Chicago. “Nearly every one of these has a story like that behind them. You understand it better than those few pages of a textbook.”
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. May 13, Ozinga Chapel at Trinity Christian College, 6601 W. College Drive, Palos Heights; tickets $10-$74.
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