Re: [Cz-L] music in Czernowitz

Music in Czernowitz:
  In 1944 ,the Soviets occupied Czernowitz and as wireless radios were
forbidden
  they installed loudspeakers in all streets and citizens could be wired up
to the network.
   For a nominal fee you got a small box which contained a 6 - inch speaker
and
   an on-off/volume knob.
    The studio was in center of town and they relayed Moscow News , Soviet
Music,
    Stalin speeches and also local talents had their hour.
     If you lived on,(or near) a main street you didnt need the box as the
same program
     was broadcast on the street for free.
      So if you wanted music of your choice you used gramophones with
celluloid records.
     Deutsche Gramophone and his Masters Voice and Decca were the brands.
      Even the best of these could not reproduce the very low or very high
frequencies.
      So you missed the tubas and bassoons the big fiddles and also the
piccolo and
      high violon sounds.
       But who noticed ? Only much later , did I become aware how music
could sound in
         Long play, high fidelity FM stereo sound and bass reflex boxes and
tweeters..
               Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "ALFRED SCHNEIDER" <asfred_at_comcast.net>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] music in Czernowitz

> Dear Dr. Ben Zwi,
>
> Your letter was quite interesting in that it shows that the interest
> in the history and lives of the vanished world of Jews in the
> Bukowina has endured for many generations and, hopefully, will
> continue in the future.
>
> Regretfully,there is not very much I can contribute to your research
> of the history of the Halm family, especially their musical
> activities, but I shall try.
>
> I lived in Wiznitz (Romanian Vijnita) till 1939 when I moved to
> Czernowitz. I remember several Halms who were related to Max Halm,
> the renowned composer of Romanian music in the 1930s. Of course, I
> don't know any details (first names, dates of birth). A Mrs. Halm (
> born in the 1890s) owned a tailor shop, her son was a barber, her
> daughter a piano teacher (her married name may have been Laufer). The
> Halms were related with the leading musicians family in Wiznitz, the
> Pistiners. Eli Pistiner had been the violin teacher of many young
> people in town and his orchestra (which included members of his
> family) played at most wedding parties, balls, etc. I don't know what
> happened to all these people.
>
> I hope this letter, which is also copied to the Czernowitz-L list,
> may stimulate other former Bukowineans to contribute their
> reminiscences about music and musicians in the Bukowina, a subject
> that you correctly noticed has not received much attention till now.
>
> I wish you success in your work.
>
> Alfred (Fred) Schneider
> Professor Emeritus
> Georgia Tech and MIT
>
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