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.