Longtime Newton resident Werner Gans owed his escape from Nazi Germany as a 13-year-old to his cello and cherished the instrument throughout his life. As Adolf Hitler directed the persecution of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When I was a child, my mother never spoke about the Holocaust. I was aware that things were different in our ...

So I can understand why Weilerstein would want to reuse them as scaffolding for a whole new repertoire of solo cello music. And I also recognize the urge to hammer together a new creation out of ...