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

My parents had attended this concert, I do not know whether the first
or the second half.
They talked about Huberman's playing, but also mentioned how fussy he
was
and that when someone in the audience coughed or sneezed, he stopped
playing.

Mimi
On May 27, 2011, at 3:46 AM, David Glynn wrote:

> 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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