Much-Travelled

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 5

Much-Travelled

MUSICIANS WHO HAVE MADE FOUR WORLD TOURS AND VISITED EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD [ THE CHERNIAVKSY TRIO

ONDON has ‘welcomed back the three Cherniavsky brothers. Leo, Jan and Mischel, who have returned from a 50,000 mile tour of the:

world. These three brothers have urobably travelled more than any other musicians in the world. They have toured Africa at least four times, New Zealand three times, Australia four times, and have also been to China, Japan, India and South America, and, in addition, have appeared in nearly all the principal cities of Europe. Not so long ago they went to Bangkok and were feted in the Royal Palace. The King of Siam is an Oxford graduate and is keenly musical. He made a tempting offer to Leo Cherniavsky to remain and organise v. native orchestra to play the gems of European music, but the young artist preferred to continue his career witk his brothers. They have never been separated. Mischel and his two brothers were round about twelve when they lirst came to London from Vienna with their father.

“We used to live in Whitechapel. We had letters of introduction from

the Rothschilds to Sir Samuel Montagu, who then became Lord Swaythling,” says Mischel. “Sir Samuel replied, asking us to play after dinner at his house in Kensington. He paid us five pounds for the evening and told all his friends that was our fee. And after that we never could get away from the fivepound touch. “Everywhere we went we could never get any more, but, anyway, it started us on our way to success. We used to wear little velvet suits with lace cuffs. We were so like young Mozarts that everybody petted us. But that is more than twenty years ago now.”