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! < . , • Page Twenty Page Twenty-one THE JEWISH POST Thursday, March 3, 1966 , • Thursday, March 3, 1966 THE JEWISH POST 1 , . the Coblentz brothers to Winnipeg in 1882, their office. Tendons, muscles and nerves Fro... C 'to C transplanted facets of their former Ii.f~ into. would not respond to the will of the I a Gennan-Russian mosaic on the pralnes. . master." ;,. . As. though to compensate for' the lo,ng In 1927, Mr. Matoff was featur~d at Van- •• . : centuries during whieh they had been ?~med couver's 'Capitol Theatre. the ProVlnce cal~ed • artistic self-expression, these new cltlze~s him "an executant of remarkable power With , began' to' exercise their a~inity for ~USIC the ability to draw out of his instrument.a Adventures In Jewish USIC I . out of all proportion to theIr comparatIvely tone of haunting loneliness." . small numbers. . .' Mr. Matoff entered the. manufacturing tn, a' SJ .. Levis' boasted of Jewish ancestry, and the Can a- chaired the fOI'mation of the Philharmonic Society, The usual discrimination toward J ewsfield, and a:s he took his goods from city. to i . !t 01.1Il n lem dian Archives of 1886 still circulate the story of Led by Capt. W, N. I(ennedy, organist of Grace was often omitted where it concerned Jewish city, there stood in his sample room an 111- . . '. . /"lthe adventurous Jewish girl, disguised as a boy, . Church and mayol' in 1875-76, the' 80-member I musicians, especially after t.he 1850~, when congruous sight amid ~h~ racks of cC!ats . . . .' .. . ~ \\'ho arrived in 1738 on the St. Michel and was Society gave its debut concert in March in 30° j v , ". h I d t R and suits the battered vlOlm case, and wlth- AST b.ut, thlllly populated terntory, ~u~t~nal 'consequently deported. '.' . '.',' below r-ero weather. The sum pi' $1,240 was C91- , Jews began to play t e ea I!llf par. III us- l'n l't, the' o,ld fiddle of his artistic triumphs; A Sia'smusical. life; The tradItIon, laid dO\VTI , , , " . d.rupge!J" . IehglOus, ' " It was liot until the British conquest. of .Can- lectecl for instruments, and mU'sic . lessons were' i , ha~dsh~p::;, m~notonous. . , · by Anton and Nicolai Rubinstein, founders . The 'first Cycle of Musical Festivals, Of.· III ada in 1763 that a, permanent and legalized' settle- offered the general public atltwelve. for $10. The, , l)l~rItalllsm Engllsh-speak~ng dl~trICts, togeth~r of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Conserva- .the Dominion of Canada' originated in Win­ with frequent .wars an? .Indll.'-n raIds !!lade muslc ment of Jews in Canada began, and because of the· , City ,Hall Theatre, a '500-Heat auditorium which tories of Music, and developed by Leopold nipegfi'om March 31 to May 9, 1903, in Drill a very marglllal activIty m colo~lal Canada. . laws ban'ing Jews from most professions, there boasted a gallery across one end, formally opened Aller court violinist to Czar Alexander III Hall Fort Osborne Barracks (across from Nevertheless,. long Bac.h, Handeland Pur- wel'e np bridges between them and 'the cultural on March 14, 1876, with a benefit for the General ~fore · and teacher of Mischa Elman,. Efvem ,Zim-. tpe 'Legislative Building). The the .muslc dlver<'e. natIOns began to life of their surroundings until the French Hevo- Hospital. Unfol·tnnately, having been constructed . Minneapol~s ~, -.~. ~ell, o~ m~ke balist . Fritz Kreisler' and Jascha HeIfetz, Orchestra under Emil Oberhoffer, and Sir. ~~. . lIlroad~ mto \',arlOu,; . regIOn;;. a~ the same tl.me lution. . along a cl'eek at William and Main, the City Hall . Nelson Sisters - (from ieft to right) Anna (pianist? Ida~."!?linist), retardlllg the iormatlOn of a ulllfied cultural hfe. Two Bm'urian Jewish immigrants of great began to "bulge frightfully" at the 'sides in 188:3 made'deep impress upon quI' pi0!leers. M~sicAlexanderCampbelI Miickenzie, prin~ip~1 of· beC<'1.me part of home life and child ~ducatlOn,. the Royal Academy of , were mVlted. and Zara ('cellist) '.' '. the famous' "Canadian Trw. . Even before any settlement took place,. the influence, in musical circles were Abraham and and finally' The. Hall had seen a gala coJl~psed. and it \yas with eagerness that JeWish moth- The Winnipeg Festival chorus an~or~~es­ lllarillers with Jacque Cartier greeted the south S

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