Re: [Cz-L] Michurin street - Concert Hall

Also mentioned on this plaque are Caruso, Chaliapin and Josef Schmidt.

My mother Erica remembered the famous violinist Bronislaw Huberman playing
in Czernowitz. This would have been in the 1930s. She wrote:
"Internationally famous musicians played in Czernowitz. On one occasion, I
remember the whole town was in a fever - "Huberman is coming! Huberman is
coming!" "

Gregor von Rezzori has written of this occasion: "The Concert Hall had
rather large entrance doors on the sides which led out onto the street. For
Huberman's concert there came a fantastically snobbish public in white
gloves made up of officers and functionaries. They scarcely clapped with
their white gloved hands. After the first part, the doors swung open and
they swarmed out for cigarettes. The hall filled again for the second half
and Huberman played to a storm of applause. The Jews loitering outside had
come in!"

This event made an enormous impression on Erica, even though she did not
manage to go to the concert.

David

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From: "Mark Wiznitzer" <markwiznitzer_at_gmail.com>
To: "Winters, Stephen" <Stephen.Winters_at_atlantichealth.org>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Michurin street.

I don't know, but last year the concert hall was undergoing renovation
and I imagine the work has been completed by now. Across the s

Among the those who performed here was Paul Robeson, whose name is
inscribed along with other famous mucsicians:
http://bukovyna.ucoz.com/Sights_Tourism/SIGHTS_CHERN/ARCHITECTURE/MUSIC_HALL/DSC03297.jpg

Across the beautiful square is the former home of educator Elias
Jankel, my friend Eric's grandfather who survived the war, but died in
1945 and is buried in Czernowitz cemetery. the honne is where the
Jankels lived when Eric's father Rudolf, a musician and music teacher
who emigrated to NYC via Vienna before the war, was born.

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