Cornel Chiriac (1942-1975)
Cornel Chiriac (1942-1975)
Author(s): Flori BălănescuSubject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Cold-War History
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: 1960's in Romania; Radio Free Europe; protest music; the generation „make love, not war”; Cornel Chiriac;
Summary/Abstract: Romanian journalist, radio producer, record producer and jazz drummer, Cornel Chiriac (1942–1975) was born in Bessarabia. He graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of English Language. Cornel produced for Radio România the most popular music show of the 1960s – METRONOM. After Invasion of Czechoslovakia he played a ballad which relates how five small wolves and a bigger one attacked a sheepfold. Later put on The Beatles' Back in the USSR. He was discovered by Radio Free Europe director Noel Bernard in the Traiskirchen refugee camp and continued his activity in Munich, in RFE's Romanian-language section. He re-launched Metronom and Jazz magazin, and started Jazz à la carte. On March 4, 1975, Cornel was stabbed near his car, in a Munich parking lot.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXXI/2023
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 234-237
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian
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