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Jun. 6th, 2008 11:51 amI have internet in the apartment. I realize this is old news, but it has yet to cease amusing me.
Thursday was very fun. There was school, ripping of songs, and in Performance Workshop the guest speaker lady was very interesting. She was a native Viennese (from the 19th district [Bezirk]) who grew up in the 70/80's. She attended a school that was run by a reimmigrated (left during WWII and came back again) Jewess. Apparently the 19th district was very hardliner Nazi during what she called "Nazi time", and so placing a Jewess to run the school there was a political choice of the government.
She and her sister learned to play instruments (cello and piano) as a matter of course, a leftover of educating women in music for their benefit as marriageable ladies. Then she went to college to study music education because "it was an easy way to get money". According to her, girls went to college in Austria at this time to be better wives or because it just something to do (University in Vienna is basically free, if you can get in), there was no consideration of it as progressing or starting a career.
She had a few part-time teaching jobs. Then, she heard of an opportunity for a scholarship to study in Japan. She applied, got it, and went to Japan. While there she became interested in the music of emigrated Jews. (Factoid: In Japan, the first professional orchestra was lead by a Austrian.) Our speaker was the first to discover the musical history of emigrated Jews in Japan, and wrote a research paper (her thesis?) on it.
She said that if she had been based "on the moon" she would have been interested in the music of Jews. This is mainly because WWII was never discussed with her as she was growing up. It was a restricted subject, all she would hear was: "You cannot judge the decisions of past generations." She said she didn't want to judge, just know the facts.
She became quite renowned for her paper, being the first can do that. And after a bumpy path, she found her way to radio. She said she loves it because the result is immediate, and there are definite deadlines, unlike books, plus you have to have "a vision" to lead an interview or create a program. The main way to gain a vision or passion, she said, is to be hurt somehow, to experience something that makes a real impression.
She now has her own show and teaches classes on Music History and Radio at the Universities in Austria, her show pursues her passions: Jewish music, and the feminist ideal, utter equality between the sexes, which she promotes through finding and using as many female composers/professionals as possible.
After this I went with Kenya to the Naschmarkt, a huge outdoor farmer's market. I didn't buy anything, just observed. The prices were quite good. Then we went home, and Kenya made dinner (curry). It was delicious, and I helped wash up, as we have no dishwasher.
It took a while, but I prodded and we left to go have crepes at another group of student's apartment. It was a lot of fun, their apartment was bigger than ours. I talked some to Janette and Katie, one of the other violinists. I also found out that Anna-Grace, a Music Hist. major, was also homeschooled. Power to the homeschoolers! The crepes looked and tasted absolutely divine. We filled them with chopped apples (apfel), strawberries (erdbeer), bananas (bananen), and peaches (don't know); topping them off with melted chocolate (schokolade). I got the recipe for later use, it seems quite easy. Someone also made cookies, so we had one of those as well. They weren't up to my usual standard. I found a stack of books, and borrowed one. I find it a bit amazing how eager I am for fresh reading material.
After that, we went home, beating the 12:30am U-Bahn cut-off time. Bed was bliss after that.
So far today we have gone to the store to buy food, made french toast (so good!) with strawberries, bananas, fresh whipped cream, and real maple syrup (they don't have the fake kind).
Later, we are planning on going to the Prater, which is a fairground of sorts. It will be interesting, I think.
See ya soon.
Greeny
Thursday was very fun. There was school, ripping of songs, and in Performance Workshop the guest speaker lady was very interesting. She was a native Viennese (from the 19th district [Bezirk]) who grew up in the 70/80's. She attended a school that was run by a reimmigrated (left during WWII and came back again) Jewess. Apparently the 19th district was very hardliner Nazi during what she called "Nazi time", and so placing a Jewess to run the school there was a political choice of the government.
She and her sister learned to play instruments (cello and piano) as a matter of course, a leftover of educating women in music for their benefit as marriageable ladies. Then she went to college to study music education because "it was an easy way to get money". According to her, girls went to college in Austria at this time to be better wives or because it just something to do (University in Vienna is basically free, if you can get in), there was no consideration of it as progressing or starting a career.
She had a few part-time teaching jobs. Then, she heard of an opportunity for a scholarship to study in Japan. She applied, got it, and went to Japan. While there she became interested in the music of emigrated Jews. (Factoid: In Japan, the first professional orchestra was lead by a Austrian.) Our speaker was the first to discover the musical history of emigrated Jews in Japan, and wrote a research paper (her thesis?) on it.
She said that if she had been based "on the moon" she would have been interested in the music of Jews. This is mainly because WWII was never discussed with her as she was growing up. It was a restricted subject, all she would hear was: "You cannot judge the decisions of past generations." She said she didn't want to judge, just know the facts.
She became quite renowned for her paper, being the first can do that. And after a bumpy path, she found her way to radio. She said she loves it because the result is immediate, and there are definite deadlines, unlike books, plus you have to have "a vision" to lead an interview or create a program. The main way to gain a vision or passion, she said, is to be hurt somehow, to experience something that makes a real impression.
She now has her own show and teaches classes on Music History and Radio at the Universities in Austria, her show pursues her passions: Jewish music, and the feminist ideal, utter equality between the sexes, which she promotes through finding and using as many female composers/professionals as possible.
After this I went with Kenya to the Naschmarkt, a huge outdoor farmer's market. I didn't buy anything, just observed. The prices were quite good. Then we went home, and Kenya made dinner (curry). It was delicious, and I helped wash up, as we have no dishwasher.
It took a while, but I prodded and we left to go have crepes at another group of student's apartment. It was a lot of fun, their apartment was bigger than ours. I talked some to Janette and Katie, one of the other violinists. I also found out that Anna-Grace, a Music Hist. major, was also homeschooled. Power to the homeschoolers! The crepes looked and tasted absolutely divine. We filled them with chopped apples (apfel), strawberries (erdbeer), bananas (bananen), and peaches (don't know); topping them off with melted chocolate (schokolade). I got the recipe for later use, it seems quite easy. Someone also made cookies, so we had one of those as well. They weren't up to my usual standard. I found a stack of books, and borrowed one. I find it a bit amazing how eager I am for fresh reading material.
After that, we went home, beating the 12:30am U-Bahn cut-off time. Bed was bliss after that.
So far today we have gone to the store to buy food, made french toast (so good!) with strawberries, bananas, fresh whipped cream, and real maple syrup (they don't have the fake kind).
Later, we are planning on going to the Prater, which is a fairground of sorts. It will be interesting, I think.
See ya soon.
Greeny
