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| birth_place = [[Hanson, Massachusetts]]
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| death_place = [[Fryeburg, Maine]]
| occupation = Weather presenter, television personality
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'''Heinrich Schalit''' (January 2, 1886 – February 3, 1976) was an Austrian-American, Jewish composer and musician; best known for his sacred music, art songs, and chamber music. Together with Herbert Fromm, Isadore Freed, Hugo Chaim Adler, Frederick Piket, Julius Chajes, Abraham Wolfe Binder, and Lazare Saminsky, Schalit modernized Jewish sacred music in the first half of the 20th century.<ref name="naxos">[https://www.naxos.com/person/Heinrich_Schalit/28311.htm ''Heinrich Schalit (1886-1976)''. The World of Classical Music. NAXOS.]</ref> His most popular work is ''Freitagabend-Liturgie'' (Friday Evening Liturgy), premiered in 1932.
'''Marty Engstrom''' (April 28, 1937 – January 4, 2024), best known by his television title '''Marty on the Mountain''', was an American [[Broadcast engineering|broadcast engineer]], [[weather presenter]] and [[television personality]]. He broadcast the weather for [[WMTW (TV)|WMTW]] Channel 8 News for 38 years from atop [[Mount Washington]] in [[New Hampshire]].
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Heinrich Schalit was born on January 2, 1886 to Joseph Schalit and Josefine Fischer. He had four siblings, including first secretary of the Zionist Office, Isidor Schalit. Schalit studied organ, piano and composition privately in 1898 with [[Josef Labor]], and 1903 he began studying at the Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His teachers included the pianist [[Theodor Leschetizky]] and composer [[Robert Fuchs (composer)|Robert Fuchs]]. In 1906 he completed his studies and received the ''Austrian State Prize for Students of Composition'' for his ''Piano Quartet in E minor''. After his studies, he moved to Munich in 1907, where he worked as a private music teacher and composed numerous works, primarily post-romantic songs and chamber music; including the works ''Jugendland'' for piano two hands, ''Six Love Songs'' and ''Six Spring Songs''.<ref name="jtsa"> {{Webarchiv|text=The Heinrich Schalit Collection at the Library of the Jewish Theological seminary, arranged and described by Eliott Kahn, D.M.A., February 2000 |url=http://www.jtsa.edu/prebuilt/archives/music/schalit.shtml |wayback=20100527180047}}</ref> In 1909 he studied organ for one semester at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Music. Schalit began his musical education and career without any connection or influence to Jewish music.<ref name="Brenner-175">Michael Brenner: ''Jewish Culture in the Weimar Republic''. C.H. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46121-2, p. 175.</ref>
Martin D. Engstrom was born on April 28, 1937 in [[Hanson, Massachusetts]] to Martin Sr and Ruby (née Smith) Engstrom and grew up in [[Fryeburg, Maine]]. His parents worked at a local canning plant.<ref name=PPH/> He attended [[Fryeburg Academy]] and graduated in 1956.<ref>[https://www.fryeburgacademy.org/about/news-events/posts-detail/~board/alumni/post/martin-engstrom-56 Fryeburg Academy. Martin Engstrom '56. Alumni.]</ref> Engstrom joined the Air Force as a weapons control technician. After his service, he received a commercial radio license and took a job operating [[WMTW (TV)|WMTW]]'s transmitter on the summit of [[Mount Washington]]; approximately 6,288 feet high, with a record low temperature of −47 °F and a recorded wind speed of 231 miles per hour.
=== Influence on Jewish music ===
On his first day of work in 1964, Engstrom was told in addition to his regular duties of manning the transmitting equipment, he would also be required to give a daily "on-air" weather report each night on the evening news. "First day on duty, I was told, 'Get a script written, you're going to be on camera,'" Engstrom recalls. "Huh, who me? What?"<ref name=WMTW/><ref name=CONWAY>[https://www.conwaydailysun.com/community/valley_voice/valley-voice-saying-so-long-to-marty-of-the-mountain/article_77a9463a-abfe-11ee-a026-bff81f444bde.html ''Valley Voice: Saying so long to Marty of the Mountain''. Eastman, Tom. January 5, 2024. The Conway Daily Sun.]</ref> After a few reports, Engstrom was told to "add a little personality" (smile at the end of each report)<ref name=WMTW/>. So at the end of his next report, he forced an awkward smile that would become his trademark sign-off; along with his signature clip-on Western bow tie and extremely thick Maine accent (which many thought was fake).<ref name=WMTW>[https://www.wmtw.com/article/marty-on-the-mountain-long-time-wmtw-employee-dies-age-86/46290306 ''"Marty on the Mountain" long-time WMTW employee, dies at age 86''. January 5, 2024. WMTW Channel 8. Sargent's Purchase, NH.]</ref><ref name=PPH/> "I remember people asking me if he really talked like that," said Tim Moore, president and CEO of the Maine Association of Broadcasters, "They couldn’t believe his accent wasn’t put on." As reporter for the [[Concord Monitor]], David Brooks, recalls, "... all the guys in my college dorm, who couldn’t have cared less about the news but would gather around the TV set in the lounge when Marty appeared on Channel 8, giving a cheer when that grin appeared."<ref name=MONITOR>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=David |date=January 5, 2024 |title=Not geeky but I like it: Remembering Marty on the Mountain |url=https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2024/01/11/not-geeky-but-i-like-it-remembering-marty-on-the-mountain/ |work= |location= |publisher=Portland Press Herald |access-date=March 4, 2025}}</ref>
Between 1916 and 1920, motivated by the political events of the time, Schalit began to focus more on Jewish music. He saw himself as a Jewish composer motivated by Zionism.<ref>Yotam Ḥotam, Joachim Jacob: ''Popular Constructions of Memory in German Jewry and after Emigration''. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-525-35579-4, p. 92</ref> In a letter to Anita Hepner, Schalit wrote:
:[... between] 1928 and 1932, when there was no composer of Jewish birth who could have even thought of writing music with a consciously Jewish heartbeat, I was already a well-known composer of Jewish religious music [...] as a conscious Jewish musician and Zionist I considered it my duty to convince him [Paul Ben-Haim] of the necessity of devoting his talent to Jewish music and culture".<ref name="hagalil">[https://www.hagalil.com/deutschland/2008/musik-01.htm Music Director of the Munich Main Synagogue: Prof. Emanuel Kirschner et al. – Based on Tina Frühauf's "Organ and Organ Music in German-Jewish Culture", 2005; on www.hagalil.com]</ref>
Engstrom would write out his 30-second report on a small cue card and tape it to the camera. Engstrom wrote his own scripts and spent time thinking up material for each broadcast. "The weather itself would only take up maybe ten seconds," he said, "So, I’d try to think up some sassy remark." Sometimes a technical glitch would add to the forecast; or a visit from the station's cat, Pushka, who Engstrom would famously tell: "Down, Kit-tee!" in his thick [[Down East]] accent.<ref name=DAY>[https://danszczesny.substack.com/p/the-legend-of-marty-on-the-mountain ''The Legend of Marty on the Mountain, P.1''. Day by Day: Thirty Seconds and a Smile. Szczesny, Dan. January 6, 2024.]</ref> For many [[New England]] families, it was a nightly ritual to watch Engstrom each evening. [[Alton, New Hampshire]] resident, Gail Stevens Allard, recalls how her father would make her family be quiet during Engstrom's reports: "As soon as he gave his grin, we knew we were released from the rule of silence and we’d start to giggle."<ref name=DAY/>
=== Liturgical music ===
Engstrom's daughter, Anita, said that her father held a deep reverence for his time working atop Mount Washington, but he never understood his fame and popularity. "He was very humble. People would come up to him excited and say 'Oh, you’re Marty Engstrom,' and he’d just say 'Yup,'" she once said in an interview, "We’d tell him, 'Dad, you’re famous, people know who you are.'"<ref name=PPH>{{cite news |last=Routhier |first=Ray |date=January 5, 2024 |title=Marty Engstrom, Maine’s reluctant celebrity TV weatherman, dies at 86 |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2024/01/05/marty-engstrom-maines-reluctant-celebrity-tv-weatherman-dies-at-86/ |work= |location= |publisher=Portland Press Herald |access-date=March 4, 2025}}</ref> WMTW anchorman, Steve Minich, recalls attending a banquet for Channel 8. While each news anchor was introduced, they received modest applause; but when Engstrom was called: "the place went wild, everybody [cheered]."<ref name=PPH/> "He’s the one people loved," Minich said, "What you saw was what you got with him, and I think people knew that." Although he delivered the weather for WMTW Channel 8 news for 38 years, Engstrom jokingly replied: "I am not now and never have been intentionally in the weather business. I'm a TV engineer, not a meteorologist!"<ref name=WMTW/> Engstrom would stay atop the Washington summit for 7 days straight and then spend 7 days at his home in Fryeburg.<ref name=SUN>{{cite news |last=LaFlamme |first=Mark |date=January 5, 2024 |title=‘Marty on the Mountain’: Longtime Mount Washington weatherman Marty Engstrom dies at age 86 |url=https://www.sunjournal.com/2024/01/05/marty-on-the-mountain-longtime-mount-washington-weatherman-marty-engstrom-dies-at-age-86/ |work= |location= |publisher=Sun Journal |access-date=March 4, 2025}}</ref>
=== National socialism and exile ===
At the turn of the 21st century, the decision was made to relocate the WMTW-TV transmitter from atop Mount Washington; which meant that Engstrom and other engineers were no longer needed. Engstrom retired in 2002; the same year the project was completed.<ref name=TAYLOR>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Marlin |date=January 25, 2024 |title=Marty & his Mountain! |url=https://marlintaylor.com/radio/marty-his-mountain/ |work= |location= |publisher= |access-date=March 4, 2025}}</ref> Asked what his favorite memory was about working on top of one of the coldest places in North America, Engstrom replied: "Well I think the best thing about this job always has been the view from the kitchen window, 130 miles on a clear day."<ref name=WMTW/> In 2003, he wrote a book about his years reporting the weather atop Mount Washington entitled, ''Marty on the Mountain: 38 Years on Mount Washington.''<ref name=SUN/>
== Compositional style ==
Engstrom was inducted into the Maine Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2019.<ref name=PPH/> He was a member of The National Association for Amateur Radio.<ref>[https://www.arrl.org/news/marty-on-the-mountain-engstrom-n1ary-sk "Marty on the Mountain" Engstrom, N1ARY (SK). January 10, 2024. News & Features.]</ref> He died on January 4, 2024 at his home in [[Fryeburg, Maine]].<ref name=SUN/>
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* {{cite book|last=Engstrom|first=Marty|date=January 1, 2003|title=Marty on the Mountain: 38 Years on Mount Washington |publisher=Martin Engstrom |isbn=978-0974096704}}
* {{cite book|last=Pinder|first=Eric|date=April 14, 2008|title=Among the Clouds: Work, Wit & Wild Weather at the Mount Washington Observatory |publisher=Alpine Books|isbn=978-0615204598}}
== Selected works ==
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==References==
* ''Ostjüdische Volkslieder,'' Opus 18 and 19
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* ''Freitagabend-Liturgie''; premiered on September 16, 1932, at the Lützowstrasse Synagogue in Berlin
* ''V'shamru''
* ''Hebräischer Lobgesang''
== Bibliography ==
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==External links==
* ''Schalit, Heinrich''. In: Werner Röder, [[Herbert A. Strauss]] (eds.): ''International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945''. Volume 2, vol. 2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2, p. 1022.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_2W6GYMvc ''Marty on the Mountain's Final Forecast.'' WMTW-TV Channel 8. 2002.]
* ''Heinrich Schalit: The man and his music''. Schalit, Michael. Livermore, California. ASIN: B0006E285A
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr4cd9SgJX8 ''Marty on the Mountain talks about his years on Mount Washington''. Interview with Marty Engstrom. September 18, 2014.]
* ''Schalit, Heinrich''. In: Joseph Walk (ed.): ''Short Biographies on the History of the Jews 1918–1945''. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4, p. 328.
* [https://mountwashington.org/remembering-marty/ ''Remembering Marty''. Rancourt, Ken. January 25, 2024. Mount Washington Observatory.]
* [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/remembering-marty-engstrom-with-retiring-journalist/id1448601053?i=1000652402556&l=ru ''Remembering Marty Engstrom with Retiring Journalist Steve Minich of WMTW TV''. April 14, 2024. NH Secrets, Legends and Lore.]
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Revision as of 14:08, 19 March 2025
Austrian-American, Jewish composer and musician
Heinrich Schalit (January 2, 1886 – February 3, 1976) was an Austrian-American, Jewish composer and musician; best known for his sacred music, art songs, and chamber music. Together with Herbert Fromm, Isadore Freed, Hugo Chaim Adler, Frederick Piket, Julius Chajes, Abraham Wolfe Binder, and Lazare Saminsky, Schalit modernized Jewish sacred music in the first half of the 20th century.[1] His most popular work is Freitagabend-Liturgie (Friday Evening Liturgy), premiered in 1932.
Education
Heinrich Schalit was born on January 2, 1886 to Joseph Schalit and Josefine Fischer. He had four siblings, including first secretary of the Zionist Office, Isidor Schalit. Schalit studied organ, piano and composition privately in 1898 with Josef Labor, and 1903 he began studying at the Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His teachers included the pianist Theodor Leschetizky and composer Robert Fuchs. In 1906 he completed his studies and received the Austrian State Prize for Students of Composition for his Piano Quartet in E minor. After his studies, he moved to Munich in 1907, where he worked as a private music teacher and composed numerous works, primarily post-romantic songs and chamber music; including the works Jugendland for piano two hands, Six Love Songs and Six Spring Songs.[2] In 1909 he studied organ for one semester at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Music. Schalit began his musical education and career without any connection or influence to Jewish music.[3]
Influence on Jewish music
Between 1916 and 1920, motivated by the political events of the time, Schalit began to focus more on Jewish music. He saw himself as a Jewish composer motivated by Zionism.[4] In a letter to Anita Hepner, Schalit wrote:
- [... between] 1928 and 1932, when there was no composer of Jewish birth who could have even thought of writing music with a consciously Jewish heartbeat, I was already a well-known composer of Jewish religious music [...] as a conscious Jewish musician and Zionist I considered it my duty to convince him [Paul Ben-Haim] of the necessity of devoting his talent to Jewish music and culture".[5]
Liturgical music
National socialism and exile
Compositional style
Reception
Selected works
- Ostjüdische Volkslieder, Opus 18 and 19
- Freitagabend-Liturgie; premiered on September 16, 1932, at the Lützowstrasse Synagogue in Berlin
- V'shamru
- Hebräischer Lobgesang
Bibliography
- Schalit, Heinrich. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2, vol. 2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2, p. 1022.
- Heinrich Schalit: The man and his music. Schalit, Michael. Livermore, California. ASIN: B0006E285A
- Schalit, Heinrich. In: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short Biographies on the History of the Jews 1918–1945. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4, p. 328.
External links
References
- ^ Heinrich Schalit (1886-1976). The World of Classical Music. NAXOS.
- ^ Archived (Date missing) at jtsa.edu (Error: unknown archive URL)
- ^ Michael Brenner: Jewish Culture in the Weimar Republic. C.H. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46121-2, p. 175.
- ^ Yotam Ḥotam, Joachim Jacob: Popular Constructions of Memory in German Jewry and after Emigration. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-525-35579-4, p. 92
- ^ Music Director of the Munich Main Synagogue: Prof. Emanuel Kirschner et al. – Based on Tina Frühauf's "Organ and Organ Music in German-Jewish Culture", 2005; on www.hagalil.com