14 Friday, December 19, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Soviet Goodwill Gesture Lucky
Break for Russian Violinist Here
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Anatole Wieck was one of
the lucky ones — the lucky
30,000 Russian Jews who
were released in a "good-
will" gesture by the Rus-
sians in 1972 prior to the
visit of then U.S. President
Richard Nixon.
It wasn't just by chance
that Wieck (pronounced
Veek), currently the artist-
in-residence in the Monroe
Public Schools, and his fam-
ily were able to leave the
Soviet Union.
"My parents had applied
to leave eight times, six to
Israel and two to the United
States," he said at a special
reception held for him Fri-
day in the Farmington Hills
home of Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
man Zamczyk.
Wieck, who performed
three short violin pieces at
the reception, accompanied
by Monroe High School
band instructor Al POI°,
spoke briefly about life as a
Jew in Russia.
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He said that despite his
family's attempts to escape
Russian repression, "my
father wanted to avoid
trouble," and the family
kept a low profile. The fam-
ily had to stop making ap-
plications to leave when his
brother, a second-year med-
ical student, was drafted
into the Russian Army in
Siberia. Today, his brother
is a doctor in West Berlin.
When it looked like all
was lost, President Nixon
made his historic visit to the
USSR, and the family was
fortunate to be included in
the Soviet gdvernment's
magnanimous release of
tens of thousands of Soviet
Jews.
From his Riga, Latvia,
home, Wieck went to Tel
Aviv, where he lived for five
months, until he was ac-
cepted for enrollment at the
prestigious Juilliard
School.
Wieck spent six years
at Juilliard, where he
studied violin under Ivan
Galamian and viola with
Joseph Fuchs. At Juil-
liard he earned
bachelor's and master's
degrees.
In Russia, Wieck studied
violin at the East Darzin
Special Music School and at
the Central Music School in
Moscow, where his training
focused on solo performace.
He began his music training
at 5 on piano sand at 7 on
violin.
Life as a Jew was not im-
possible, Wieck explained.
He said his family cele-
brated Passover and kept
kosher, as much as one
could in Russia. There were
no Hebrew schools, per se,
but he was able to have a
Bar Mitzva.
The 27-year-old artist
said he "grew up in a Jewish
atmosphere. A great many
of the cultured people were
Jewish."
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Married to a marketing
coordinator for an advertis-
ing agency, Wieck is con-
tracted, under the sponsor-
ship of the Michigan Coun-
cil for the Arts, to fulfill his
role until June. His respon-
sibilities include working
with the string teachers in
the Monroe schools, coach-
ing small ensembles in the
junior and senior high
school, demonstrations,
public performances, in-
struction and discussing
music and Russia to com-
munity groups and social
studies classes.
Asked if his concentrates
on a particular composer,
Wieck said "we play every-
thing, including country
music and European folk.
When we get into the Ger-
man and French, then we
move into classical.
"When we play folk
music, they (the students)
feel that I'm one of them."
Prior to accepting the
Monroe post, Wieck per-
formed at the Brooklyn
Museum, Juilliard, Alice
Tully Hall (New York),
Aspen (Colo.) Festival
Prograr
Student
Chamber Music
Festival (San Francisco)
and the Newport
N
Chamber Music Festival.
He has conducted master
classes at the University of
Texas and held many posi-
tions with orchestras and
chamber ensembles, includ-
ing assistant principal vio-
list of the Brandenburg
Ensemble, New York Pro-
Arte Chamber Orchestra
and principal violist of the
Philharmonic of Northern
New Jersey.
Freed from the Soviet
spectre and a talented vio-
linist, Anatole Wieck is
truly a lucky man.
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Jerusalem Hit
by Snowfall
JERUSALEM (JTA) --
Israel had a foretaste
winter when a sudden stortu
unleashed gale force winds
over most of the country lr
week accompanied by hez.
rain and substantial snow-
fall in Jerusalem and other
high-lying areas.
Meanwhile, Army and
Air Force helicopters man-
aged a spectacular off-shore
rescue in the teeth of the
gale. Some 80 foreign labor-
ers, most of them Italian;
were air-lifted from two
floating hostels that broke
their moorings at Hadera
and drifted helplessly in
heavy seas.