Music at the Museum: Violins of Hope

Join The National WWII Museum and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for a once-in-a-lifetime performance on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.

January 28, 2023, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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+ Add to calendar 2023-01-28 6:30:00 PM 2023-01-28 7:30:00 PM America/Mexico_City US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130 Music at the Museum: Violins of Hope Join The National WWII Museum and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for a once-in-a-lifetime performance on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.
Location: US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center
945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130

Join The National WWII Museum and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for a once-in-a-lifetime performance on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center. This culminating event will feature a concert of forbidden music—music of Jewish composers that were banned by the Nazis during World War II—and one of the musicians will play a violin that belonged to a young Jewish boy who fled Poland and lost all of his family members during the war.

Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor
Philippe Quint, Violin

PROGRAM:
Weill: Suite from The Threepenny Opera
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
Williams: Theme from Schindler's List
Chaplin: Smile (Theme from Modern Times)
Morricone: Cinema Paradiso Theme

A reception precedes the concert, and the Violins of Hope exhibition will be open for viewing during the reception following the concert.

Registration is required to attend in person presentation. For more information, contact Maggie Hartley, EdD, Director of Public Engagement, at maggie.hartley@nationalww2museum.org.