r ' .. , , . , " , . ,,' , .\- I ! < . , • 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 Canada 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 London, 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<lmuel Nordheimer (1824-1912). Abraham came performance in 1877 with the Lord and Lady el'S gave their children o,:"er to the study tl'a's contribution was Mendelssohn. s EIIJa~, nurtured by the visits of Menacheml!ssishkin, Shmaryahu coast of Labrapor with a mal';; on Jure 14, 1534. to Kingston, then the capital of Canada. in the Dutferin in attendance, and on July 24, 1877, the· of the· violin and 'cello, mstruments that A joint concert in 1907 of.the M!nneapolIs Levin, Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, the Vilna. Troupe, the Ha.:. 'On his visit t~ Hochelaga,'.'the captain ordered the . early' 1840" as music teacher to the fa'milyof . first professional actor to appear in Winnipeg ._, . aroused their racial sympathies, perhaps Symphony and Fred Warrmgton s Chorus koah football team of Vienna and Palestine's M3:ccil~es. trumpets anu other mstruments be Go\'ernor-General Sir Charles BagoL He orga- Cool Burgess. The second City hall was erected in mU~i(~al t? · because the improvisatory style, s~I'pplemen~- in Haydn's Creation was so successful that The Super-6 Essex, at $72;'5, guaranteed 5.0 mph, "v!?ra;tlOn- . SOl!!lded. where~s the lndlan~w~re much deli&,ht- ni~ed a musical society and founded A. -& S.Nord- . 1886 minus a theatre and the closest the new ed by a certain Orientalism embodied what.ui' the Winnipeg Oratorio Society was formed less beyond belief"; Bill Tobias waf;. tnefil'st \V 1I1lllpeg- . ed. Thus musIc formed the climax of the fIrst helmel', mO\'ing to Toronto where it became the' Ci\iic Centre ev·el· came to a cultural.event was cO!l1monly considered the Jewish element 111 . a year later. Fred M. Gee, fouYoIder of Celeb- born Jew· to be elected to the Le),rlslature, and Joseph ceremonial between European and 'Indian: largest music supply house in the country. In. the controversial Winnipeg. Symphony Redemp- m_ee~ing . dty Concerts, figured in practically p~o- · ::lhafer's HlJ.bonim Youth .Orchestraat the:'i~troPoli,~a~, [. Oc.tober 3, 103v;'. At Port Royal, Marc. Lescarbot the late 1880s, with sheet music plants in Mont- tion this fall: ' !ill. muWith the arrival of se~i-professional . grams of early events as acc~mpal1lst (I.e . , the D'oyle Carte opera 'at the. Walker, Ben Sheps ChassldlC (CIrca 1630), a young lawyer from Pans, wrote . ' . Charles Wheeler, the Tribune· critic, was Ball and Anne Broriaugh'sPlayhouse troupe were compet­ . a masque to celebrate the return of Baron· de '. ,. ""c"" -.-....~"".,.-, ........ ".--.... , harsher to the Gilbert & Sullivan amateurs of. ador MishaTril1er in 1904, the Jewish Oper- Handel's Messiah) or executive. John J. atic . Company was formed, aided. ,by the Moncriefi' managing editor of the Tribune, ing with the silen'f"iereen and radio for th~ consu.mers' 25¢. Poutrincourt, leader of the colony. The Theatre r:::::r--\\-A ~"A".t::::l.£) ..'i' '.' A'L' L' .' 1890, people said, than to ~he visiting Shakes- · Mme. Maria Frankfort, the 29-year-o.ld JeWIsh Iyl'lc soprano, of Neptune perfonned on barges, contains not t::::::.·LJVV" p,earean troupsat the Bijou Opera House on 'Singennans, Zena Shore and A. Nussbaum,~en'ed as'conductor from 1913~1921 in more r-s,'. .' .. '. around whom grew a permanent troupe than 50 programs. ., formerly of the Leningrad Opera, passed away two weeks orily a trunlpet cue but a short piece of verse~" ... ,,-'., .• , ' . '< .' '.' ..,,' ..•. ,', ., -.;; " Notre Dame or the' Princess Theatre, 192 after giving a recital at the Women's Musical Club. to, be sung in four parts. ',. '~: '\:', . Princess: .' .' '. ' . which produced The Jewish Hamlet, King . The earliest record of orgaruzed JeWish Lear, . Shulamit, Mar Kochba and AI,edat music in the city dates back to 1912 when Virtuosos Roman Catholic liturgy was introduced to " ... Can three musicians be found in the Yitzchak.As interest grew, Hyman Roller, . Cantor Moshe Jacob recruited a.choir from New France by peasants and missionaries in ""nj'nh city? Aye, can there he one found? The Morris Waieman and Ben Shepsof the. He~ . the IUlbour wing. Premature financial diffi- On October :30; 1929, a 13-year-oldgirl fr<?m Wil~nipeg, the 17th century, ·while folk music developed ,,~. !h . answer is emphatically NO. There are sing- · brew Sick Benefit Society, who hadeflrlier. culties retired the company. During ~he Clarice Mitchell (Kayla MitzI) daughter of E. ]). i.\'htch~ll, in the fishing and' fanning communities of the ers, organists, instrumentalists, and all the ventured into theatricals, joined' the Opera next 15 years, Jewish operettas and choral 'president of the' Zionist Council, made her debut as a .VlO­ linist in San Francisco'; Reviewing the recital, the ExamIner .. Anglo-Saxon' Atlantic' coast. ..1905 ..tal g-rag and bobtail connected therewith, but · I Company in purchasing St. Gile~' .Church activities revived ·as the Hazumia, the pro­ Secular concert niusic and Protestant choral t re fact remains that there is not one musi- on Selkirk Avenue and converted It mto the gl'essives, and finapy, in 1931, .as the Win­ · wrote: . smging were introduced via the printed page ,",.' . dan amongst the lot ..." . famous Queen's Theatre, a focal point for. nipeg Choral SOCIety,' e:cpandlllg . from a , " ... Miss MitzI (who studied with Leopold Auer) was about the end of the U~th ,century to eastern .