UNC Charlotte Musicology Prof Presenting At The United Nations
Dr. James A. Grymes, professor of musicology, will present his research in a panel at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The program, Music and the Holocaust: History, Memory and Justice will take place on November 10.
Grymes is the author of Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour (Harper Perennial, 2014), which won a National Jewish Book Award and has inspired several other works, including Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s song cycle Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope.