Alumnus shares unifying music through 'Dreams of Hope'
When Henry Panion III, MA '83, PhD '89, was first commissioned to compose a new musical work and put on a concert featuring violins restored from Holocaust concentration camps — known as the Violins of Hope — in Birmingham, Alabama, he wanted to design a program that blended two histories. He decided to weave together themes from Jewish and African American traditions to be played on the Violins of Hope. The resulting concert, held in the same 16th Street Baptist Church the K
