And, to add just one more thing to the mix:
the always interesting Balanescu Quartet created a tribute album, "Maria T":
http://www.amazon.com/Maria-T-Balanescu-Quartet/dp/B00080ETRM
Video excerpt (and more video links) here:
https://youtu.be/K4bX6Wu5e0c
Jim
On 26/07/2015 14:29, Gary Rogovin wrote:
> 7-26-15
>
> Hardy's post of 7-8-15, "Rumania Test", included a link to a Rumanian
> folk dance sung by Maria Tanase-Ciuleandra. This woman was gorgeous.
> What eyes, What lips. I think Hardy had a thing for her. Who could
> blame him. But please don't tell his wife! hah hah.
> For those who wish to know more about this very talented woman, who
> has been dubbed "the Edith Piaf" of Romania, please see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_T%C4%83nasee
> Hardy's post is indicative of the influence that the Rumanian period
> in Czernowitz had and still has on Czernowitzers in the CZ-L group
> born after WWI, specifically between 1918 and 1941, which most CZ'ers
> reflect negatively upon due to Rumania's complicity with the Nazis. My
> dear Mother, who was born in 1911 in Sadagura and then lived in
> Czernowitz from 1920-1929 before emigrating with her three siblings to
> New York in 9/1929, had a Rumanian passport (which I have in my
> possession). She spoke fluent German, Rumanian and Yiddish in Europe
> and after emigrating to the U.S., she learned to speak fluent English,
> Spanish and Russian (Brighton Beach, Brooklyn NY) and some French. She
> was a child violin prodigy, who at approximately 9 years of age,
> performed in concert in, I believe, the Vienna Court Opera House.
>
>
> Gary Rogovin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hardy Breier" <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>
> To: "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 9:21 AM
> Subject: [Cz-L] Rumania test
>
>
> Here is a Rumanian folk dance sung by Maria Tanase-Ciuleandra:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9hGEPqaNg
>
> Your ancestors have spent some time in this region,
> If this music is strange to you, forget it.
> But if it is not, something has remained.
> BTW it is a dance getting faster all the time
> Until complete abandon.
>
> Hardy
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