Post by Lets_Eat_Paste on Aug 18, 2011 17:38:46 GMT -6
Full Birth Name: Aryeh Jacob Feldman
DOB: December 4, 1931
Age: 80
Gender: Male
AI: Arthur Miller
Occupation: Opera Critic. A quite harsh, blunt, and good one at that.
Personality: Years ago, he was wise and happy. He enjoyed his modest life and was thankful for everything God had given him, and he was most caring to those in his most inner circle. But now, his professional circle is all he has. He is a crotchety old man who has spent a good portion of his life in despair, which he has no need to tell you about, thank you very much. He says all he needs to say in his scathing reviews, or in Yiddish.
History: Aryeh grew up in the “Sandvorstadt”, the Jewish community in Dessau, Germany. His father taught at the local yeshiva, and his mother was a nurse. At an early age, Aryeh was inspired by Kurt Weill’s music and taught himself how to play the piano while listening to the pulsating score. He spent hours in the room he and his second oldest brother, Yitzchok, shared listening to the operas he stored under his bed and out of sight. Some of his earliest memories are with those recordings on his family’s phonograph. Some of his other early memories are of his father finding his own compositions and telling him that it was foolishness, and proceeding to tear it up and through it away. His father, Yaakov refused to let his son become a musician like his idol, Kurt Weill, who had grown up in the same town as him. His mother, Adva, watched quietly from the sidelines, wanting her youngest son to succeed, but not wanting to be torn between husband and child.
But with the rise of World War II and the Holocaust, his family’s life was in jeopardy. At the age of ten, Aryeh and his siblings were orphaned. His parents, taken to a concentration camp, and his eldest brother Chaim had to escape with his younger siblings Yitzchok, Aryeh, Rivkeh, and Deborah. They moved to England, where Chaim, who was eighteen, tried to raise his younger siblings.
The war ended in 1945, and the siblings tried to put their lives back together.
In 1949, Aryeh met and fell in love with Adrienne Pardeux, a French Opera singer who was training in London. Chaim forbade him to see her, seeing as there was a nice, Jewish woman picked out for him already. Chaim also disliked the fact that she was French, an artist, and an atheist. But Aryeh was insistent on marrying her, so Chaim let him so do, but not as long as he was a part of the Feldman family. Aryeh was disowned and married Adrienne. Together they started their new life together, she an opera singer, and he an opera critic. He attended every one of her performances, and left polite reviews that sang her praises. But on nights when her understudy performed, or when attending another opera, he would leave honest, and scathing reviews. He was accused of being biased, and lost his credibility in London. So he and Adrienne moved to her hometown of Paris, where she continued to sing, and she continued to critique, but this time, critiqued under pseudonyms: Josiah Bergman and Mikhail Steinitz.
After five years of marriage and performances, they decided to raise a family.
But a double tragedy struck. Adrienne suffered a miscarriage, and Yitzchok called, informing Aryeh that Rivkeh, after being prescribed pain killers for a chronic headache, committed accidental suicide from an over-dose.. Aryeh wanted to go to the funeral, and be reconnected with his family, introduce them to his wife, but Chaim wouldn’t let him come. So he and Adrienne stayed in France, and after she recovered, they returned to work.
Though still suffering from the loss of their first baby, they received a double blessing. Adrienne gave birth to baby boy, Alfred, in 1956. When Alfred was a few months old, there was a visitor; Yitzchok. Yitzchok informed him that Chaim was still refusing to speak with Aryeh, but that Yitzchok didn’t think it was right for them to not be speaking, so he moved next door, and worked at a jewelry store across the way. With their relationship restored, Aryeh’s life was going very well. Four years later, in 1960, a baby girl Evelyne was welcomed into the world.
Five years later, when Alfred was nine, and Evelyne was five, Aryeh and Adrienne announced the anticipated arrival of a third child, but due to complications in pregnancy, the Feldman family suffered the still birth of their second son.
Although the death of their third child hit the entire family very hard, Adrienne felt it the worst, and was diagnosed with depression. Within three years, she had tried to commit suicide twice. She began drinking. Of course Aryeh was very worried, and got her help. Adrienne’s job was suffering, as was Aryeh’s. A year later, however, Aryeh, with the help of doctors and Yitzchok, got Adrienne sober, and their family improved immensely.
1971 saw some major changes for the Feldman family. Chaim died of untreated pneumonia, and Deborah allowed Aryeh to attend the funeral. The entire Feldman family went to England (Yitzchok included) to attend the funeral, and returned with three more additions to the family: Deborah, her English husband Richard, and Yitzchok’s new English girlfriend. With three of the five Feldman children reunited, things couldn’t have been better for the family; that was, until Adrienne convinced Aryeh that adoption would cure her depression entirely. Aryeh (of course) gave in and nine year old Nadine was adopted into the family.
But now, in the year 2010, Aryeh lives quite alone. His children are grown and moved to their respective parts of the globe for job reasons. Five years ago, Adrienne died of Alzheimer's disease (which was the last time he saw his children) and eight years ago, Yitzchok died of a heart attack, his only companion now is his job. Though mainly critiquing at the Bastille (where Adrienne did most of her performances), he now relocated to the Garnier, for the Bastille now, not having Adrienne there, “lacks the needed talent to function, and remains unpleasing to even the healthiest of ears.”
DOB: December 4, 1931
Age: 80
Gender: Male
AI: Arthur Miller
Occupation: Opera Critic. A quite harsh, blunt, and good one at that.
Personality: Years ago, he was wise and happy. He enjoyed his modest life and was thankful for everything God had given him, and he was most caring to those in his most inner circle. But now, his professional circle is all he has. He is a crotchety old man who has spent a good portion of his life in despair, which he has no need to tell you about, thank you very much. He says all he needs to say in his scathing reviews, or in Yiddish.
History: Aryeh grew up in the “Sandvorstadt”, the Jewish community in Dessau, Germany. His father taught at the local yeshiva, and his mother was a nurse. At an early age, Aryeh was inspired by Kurt Weill’s music and taught himself how to play the piano while listening to the pulsating score. He spent hours in the room he and his second oldest brother, Yitzchok, shared listening to the operas he stored under his bed and out of sight. Some of his earliest memories are with those recordings on his family’s phonograph. Some of his other early memories are of his father finding his own compositions and telling him that it was foolishness, and proceeding to tear it up and through it away. His father, Yaakov refused to let his son become a musician like his idol, Kurt Weill, who had grown up in the same town as him. His mother, Adva, watched quietly from the sidelines, wanting her youngest son to succeed, but not wanting to be torn between husband and child.
But with the rise of World War II and the Holocaust, his family’s life was in jeopardy. At the age of ten, Aryeh and his siblings were orphaned. His parents, taken to a concentration camp, and his eldest brother Chaim had to escape with his younger siblings Yitzchok, Aryeh, Rivkeh, and Deborah. They moved to England, where Chaim, who was eighteen, tried to raise his younger siblings.
The war ended in 1945, and the siblings tried to put their lives back together.
In 1949, Aryeh met and fell in love with Adrienne Pardeux, a French Opera singer who was training in London. Chaim forbade him to see her, seeing as there was a nice, Jewish woman picked out for him already. Chaim also disliked the fact that she was French, an artist, and an atheist. But Aryeh was insistent on marrying her, so Chaim let him so do, but not as long as he was a part of the Feldman family. Aryeh was disowned and married Adrienne. Together they started their new life together, she an opera singer, and he an opera critic. He attended every one of her performances, and left polite reviews that sang her praises. But on nights when her understudy performed, or when attending another opera, he would leave honest, and scathing reviews. He was accused of being biased, and lost his credibility in London. So he and Adrienne moved to her hometown of Paris, where she continued to sing, and she continued to critique, but this time, critiqued under pseudonyms: Josiah Bergman and Mikhail Steinitz.
After five years of marriage and performances, they decided to raise a family.
But a double tragedy struck. Adrienne suffered a miscarriage, and Yitzchok called, informing Aryeh that Rivkeh, after being prescribed pain killers for a chronic headache, committed accidental suicide from an over-dose.. Aryeh wanted to go to the funeral, and be reconnected with his family, introduce them to his wife, but Chaim wouldn’t let him come. So he and Adrienne stayed in France, and after she recovered, they returned to work.
Though still suffering from the loss of their first baby, they received a double blessing. Adrienne gave birth to baby boy, Alfred, in 1956. When Alfred was a few months old, there was a visitor; Yitzchok. Yitzchok informed him that Chaim was still refusing to speak with Aryeh, but that Yitzchok didn’t think it was right for them to not be speaking, so he moved next door, and worked at a jewelry store across the way. With their relationship restored, Aryeh’s life was going very well. Four years later, in 1960, a baby girl Evelyne was welcomed into the world.
Five years later, when Alfred was nine, and Evelyne was five, Aryeh and Adrienne announced the anticipated arrival of a third child, but due to complications in pregnancy, the Feldman family suffered the still birth of their second son.
Although the death of their third child hit the entire family very hard, Adrienne felt it the worst, and was diagnosed with depression. Within three years, she had tried to commit suicide twice. She began drinking. Of course Aryeh was very worried, and got her help. Adrienne’s job was suffering, as was Aryeh’s. A year later, however, Aryeh, with the help of doctors and Yitzchok, got Adrienne sober, and their family improved immensely.
1971 saw some major changes for the Feldman family. Chaim died of untreated pneumonia, and Deborah allowed Aryeh to attend the funeral. The entire Feldman family went to England (Yitzchok included) to attend the funeral, and returned with three more additions to the family: Deborah, her English husband Richard, and Yitzchok’s new English girlfriend. With three of the five Feldman children reunited, things couldn’t have been better for the family; that was, until Adrienne convinced Aryeh that adoption would cure her depression entirely. Aryeh (of course) gave in and nine year old Nadine was adopted into the family.
But now, in the year 2010, Aryeh lives quite alone. His children are grown and moved to their respective parts of the globe for job reasons. Five years ago, Adrienne died of Alzheimer's disease (which was the last time he saw his children) and eight years ago, Yitzchok died of a heart attack, his only companion now is his job. Though mainly critiquing at the Bastille (where Adrienne did most of her performances), he now relocated to the Garnier, for the Bastille now, not having Adrienne there, “lacks the needed talent to function, and remains unpleasing to even the healthiest of ears.”
