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Musikverein
Czernowitz - CzernivtsiPhilharmonic Hall
1900?
PHOTO: ANDY FISHLERCZERNOWITZ, MAY,17, 2011, BETWEEN 20:30 TO 21:30
2011
I am standing there, in the shadows…
PHOTO: IRENE WIEN, SEPTEMBER 2009
Why was Czernowitz called “little Vienna”?Because of the Musikverein?
A. Rubinstein
F. Chaliapin
E. Caruso
There is no B.Hubermann on this list?
J. Schmidt
P. Robeson
The Memorial Plaque on the Musikverein, Czernivtsi
Jacques Tibo
Rubinstein vs.von Rezzori
The Artists and the Music lovers
This happened in 1911-12
THANKS TO DAVID GLYNN FOR THIS INFORMATION !
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
Twenty years later…
WITH THANKS AND REGARDS,IRENE FISHLER, MAY,31,2011,HAIFA
Please, if you have the original English book “My young years” by A. Rubinstein ( Knopf, 1973, N.Y.) can you scan the 2 relevant pages ?Also, I want to know, in which volume Rezzori wrote about the Hubermann Concert and the year this book was first published.I wish to add the info to this presentation.