RE: [Cz-L] Musikverein -pps

Dear David,
Thank you so much!
I knew, I knew in my heart that you will react after doing a thorough
research.
Your comment is a big surprise and reading the article and hearing the CD -
a delight. You're right; it is strange to open this biographical note with
the Musikverein-story by quoting Rezzori.
The Czernowitzer public was legendary, wasn't it?

I believe we will have some great celebrations for the Israeli Philharmonic
Orchestra and for B.Huberman, its founder, in December 2011. It's the 75th
birthday!
Your dear mother Erica z"l, knew what she was talking about. As I said
before, I will never forget the conversation we had 5 years ago. The
Meislerschule must be proud of their former pupils.

I will add your info to the presentation. Hopefully, someone will find soon
the English Rubinstein text.

Listen to Schubert's ."Sei mir gegruesst",
With a warm Gruss aus Haifa,
Irene
 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Glynn [mailto:glynn_at_spontini.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:30 AM
To: Irene Fishler
Cc: czernowitz-l
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Musikverein -pps

Dear Irene,

Unfortunately I had no note of where Erica found the von Rezzori quote. She
was a scientist and had an extensive collection of Czernowitz books, and I
was sure this would have been an actual quotation which she found somewhere.

I have been leafing through the pages of "The Snows of Yesteryear" and
"Memoirs of an Antisemite", but found nothing remotely helpful.

Then this morning I suddenly stumbled on it!

The quote is from an article on Huberman which was written as the "liner
notes" for a CD of a Huberman recital in New York. This is the beginning of
the article:

*****

Huberman in Recital: New York Bronislaw Huberman, violin Learn from the
past, enjoy the present, work for the future. -Bronislaw Huberman

A vital culture once thrived in middle Europe. Its multi-lingual citizens
had endured life under Russian Tsars, Austrian and German emperors, Turkish
sultans, and their own equally horrid Nationalists. The writer Gregor von
Rezzori came from Czernowitz, Austria, or Cernauti under Romania, then
Cernovtsy in the Soviet Union and now part of an independent Ukraine. The
languages used locally included German, Romanian, the tongue of the Huzuls,
Armenian, Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Turkish, Polish, and Gypsy
dialects. Rezzori told this writer about a Huberman recital in his native
city:

"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 is the link to the full article:

http://www.arbiterrecords.com/notes/105notes.html

It is interesting that the author (Allan Evans, the producer of the CD)
should have chosen to feature Czernowitz to start his article on Huberman.
Interesting also that he should have known von Rezzori.

This is the CD:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/huberman-in-recital-new-york-1936-44-w72671

Best regards,

David

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