A Holocaust survivor in the Philadelphia Orchestra

A Holocaust survivor in the Philadelphia Orchestra

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norman lebrecht

March 29, 2017

Peter Dobrin has written a beautiful tribute to David Arben, a violinist who played 34 years in the Philadelphia Orchestra, a third of them as associate concertmaster.

The violin had saved David as a teenager from a Nazi firing squad.

He died in a retirement home two weeks ago, aged 89.

Read the obituary here.

Hear him play here.

 

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