Felix Cherniavsky - Cherniavsky Trio

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Felix Cherniavsky - Cherniavsky Trio

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NEXT TUESDAY . SIR WALTER ALCOCK MISCHEL CHERNIAVSKY ORGAN and CELLO RECITAL at BLACKHEATH , SUFFOLK . secanli 35 10 AUSTRALIAN JE The Decline of Ghetto Genius 0 NOTED ' CELLIST SAYS FORCES WHICH MOULD JEWISH ARTIST ARE CHANGING AND LIFE IS TOO EASY . By Alvin Hellman . ( Copyright 1935 , Jewish Telegraphic Agency , Inc. ) O a ence . ex Yehudi Menuhin is the last of the Cross Brings Frigidity . long line of " ghetto geniuses who have carved niches for themselves in in 1908. The three lads were giving He tells one story of Johannesburg the gallery of musical fame . The a concert there . They had with them conditions that led to the development Mme . Maria Hooton , talented of the Elmans , Heifetzes , Zimbalists singer . The audience was almost ex and others of the great Jewish musi- clusively Jewish . The boys were tu cal dynasty have changed , and a great multuously applauded . Mme . Hooten , Jewish era in music is , perhaps , pass- who wore on a chain around her neck ing from the scene . a large cross , was received in frigid So , at any rate , thinks Mischel silence . Cherniavsky , the famed ' cellist , who Came the intermission , and there played before the Czar Nicholas II . , was a lot of discussion in the audi at the tender age of seven and has Then the management was ad engaged in more than 2,500 concerts vised that unless the singer appeared in all parts of the world since that without the cross , the audience would day . leave . Mme . Hooton obliged , and was The combination of persecution , duly applauded for her remaining suffering and sacrifice which made up numbers . the ghetto background of the Jewish The point of the story was not that musical genius no longer exists in the the Jews objected to the symbol of same proportions , Cherniavsky an alien religion - a symbol that had plains , and the forces which served to mean suffering to mould the artists ' character do not former homeland — but that they were them in their function in the same way now . Jews , come to hear Jews play Jew Life Too Easy . ish music for them , and they re “ What chance has the young Jew sented anything foreign . now ? ” he asks . " He cannot know To - day , Cherniavsky points out , the what it is to drag a fiddle as big as Jewish audience does not fill the con he is into the woods where he has to cert hall only because the artist is sleep because he is a Jew and must Jewish , but because he is an artist . hide ? His father cannot sacrifice Of course , he points out , the fact that for him as in the old Russian days . the artist is a Jew does not handicap In He does not work and starve and him in attracting an audience . suffer till his music is part of him , Johannesburg and other South Afri till he himself has lived the entire can cities to - day , the Jews still at tragedy of the Jews . tend concerts in great numbers de " No , " he answered his own ques- spite the competition of the wireless tion , “ the young Jew hasn't this ad- and the cinema — but the concert is vantage . Life is so much easier for not necessarily a " Jewish affair , ” as him . Take my son . ( Cherniavsky it was years ago . He knows , for he has four sons , of whom he is inordi- has just returned to his home in Eng nately proud . ) He's a bright , tal- land from — was it his fiftieth or six ented boy , a fine student , but he tieth ? --South African tour , in which hasn't the chance I had . He doesn't he has given more than 450 concerts there . have to struggle , to work , to suf fer . I'm glad of that , but such con . New Germ in Palestine . ditions do not make for musical I asked Cherniavsky geniuses . " tion for Jewis Cherniaus ! > 12