Re: [Cz-L] Childhood in Czernowitz

Wow, what a surprise! Now I know who you are.

If I remember it right, you left Haifa for Chicago. Are you still there? I
was so sorry to hear about your loss.You husband was such a talented
mathematician.

After my husband graduated from Technion we moved to Tel Aviv, then to
Australia in 1989.

Who was your piano teacher in Cz? I met my piano teacher, Joseph Elgisser in
2006 when I was in Cz. He was still teaching at that time and he even
received a prize from UNESCO.

I left teaching 10 years ago and became a social worker and a group
therapist.

Do you see our friends from Seminar Gordon?

Serah

Please tell me
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Kofner" <akofner_at_hotmail.com>
To: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 5:55 AM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Childhood in Czernowitz

Dear Serah (Silva?)
How could I forget the Music College, my Alma Mater. The reason i did not
mentioned it was that at that time it was a part of of the middle college
professional system and was called Uchilishche.
One did not need to have a high school diploma to apply and high school
general curriculum was combined with music and pedagogy classes. Upon
successful completion of four years one became a Music teacher. Those who
applied with a high school diploma attended only music classes.
It was an a equivalent of USA Junior (2 year college) or an European
baccalaureate program.
The teachers were excellent and the ethnicrestriction was less suffocating
for obvious reasons - you had to play instruments and (in my time) the
director was a musician's musician and tried to get as many talented teacher
and students without loosing his job.
While talking last week to my piano teacher, who taught in Czernowitz and in
Lviv, I was surprised to learn that Uchilishche in Czernowitz was actually
much stronger than in Lviv.
Anyway,on a different note,I think I figured out who you are. If you don't
remember me, ask Yasha if he remembers my last name and/or my late husband.
37 years is a long time.
Best regards
Channa

> From: grs_software_at_bigpond.com
> To: akofner_at_hotmail.com
> CC: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Childhood in Czernowitz
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:06:40 +1100
>
> Dear Anna,
>
> I totally agree with you account of the state of education during the
> Soviet
> era.
>
> You forgot to mention the high level of musical education in Czernovtsy.
> The
> Chernovtsy State Music College produced fine musicians who went to
> continue
> their education at the conservatoires of all major cities in the USSR and
> many Czernowitzers are teaching and performing all over the world.
>
> Serah
>

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