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Of Exile and Music: A Twentieth Century Life Eva Mayer Schay Purdue University Press, Indiana, 2010 How little we really know of our colleagues! A colleague of mine often mentioned her friend Eva but didn't know much about her. Yet Eva has lead a most fascinating life. "Exile is about loss; Loss of Homeland, loss of family, parting from friends." This happened several times in her life, yet the tone is mostly joyous. The chronological, easy-to-read account of a Jewish refugee reveals hidden depths of loneliness and isolation, and the salvation that a life of music provided for her. In her first eight years she had lived in four different countries and two different hemispheres until her family eventually settled in South Africa, years of hardship and deprivation followed due to her parents/ fluctuating financial fortunes .Nevertheless the passion to be a musician and the world of music sustained her through her studies in England and her professional life in South Africa and Britain.th

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Eva Mayer Schay was born to Jewish parents in Cologne, Germany, on August 24, 1931. During Hitler’s rise to power, her parents emigrated to the island of Mallorca. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the family was repatriated to Germany, where Eva’s father was arrested. Next came Italy, then South Africa, where Eva underwent her schooling, musical training, and university. Her father died on her fourteenth birthday, after the end of World War II. In 1953, she won a scholarship for further violin studies in England with the great pedagogue Max Rostal. Returning to South Africa, she played with the SABC Symphony Orchestra and subsequently with the Durban Civic Orchestra. Deploring the apartheid regime, Mayer Schay and her mother emigrated to England in 1961. She taught violin and worked as freelance musician until after her marriage, when she joined the orchestra of English National Opera, where she remained for almost thirty years.

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Of Exile and Music: A Twentieth Century Life Eva Mayer Schay Purdue University Press, Indiana, 2010 How little we really know of our colleagues! A colleague of mine often mentioned her friend Eva but didn't know much about her. Yet Eva has lead a most fascinating life. "Exile is about loss; Loss of Homeland, loss of family, parting from friends." This happened several times in her life, yet the tone is mostly joyous. The chronological, easy-to-read account of a Jewish refugee reveals hidden depths of loneliness and isolation, and the salvation that a life of music provided for her. In her first eight years she had lived in four different countries and two different hemispheres until her family eventually settled in South Africa, years of hardship and deprivation followed due to her parents/ fluctuating financial fortunes .Nevertheless the passion to be a musician and the world of music sustained her through her studies in England and her professional life in South Africa and Britain.the anecdotal history of the music profession in Johannesburg and Durban has parallels with what was happening in Australia at the same time. From her perspective we also see the injustice of the apartheid laws and rejoice with her personal stand against it; finally necessitating her permanent relocation to London. Her story is replete with famous string players such as Max Rostal, William Pleeth, Yfrah Neaman and Robert Masters: personalities such as Alec Guinness and the cartoonist Gerard Hofnung; and figures known to many Australians such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Igor Ozim, Edith Peinemann and Jack Lanchbery. The one drawback is the very small print size. But for those who like reading biographies or modern history, put it on your "to buy " list. StringendoJournal of the Australian Strings Association Volume 33 Number 2, October 2011

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