Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, Yehudi Menuhin had fiddled for an all Allied audience, and for an all German one. He had also played a charity concert with Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who has only recently been pronounced de-Nazified. But Yehudi wanted to play also for his own people...
...audience greeted his remarks with stunned silence. But Yehudi at least convinced Editor Jonas that he was no traitor. Said Jonas: "If Menuhin offered us a concert today, we would all go. Perhaps it is too much to expect that those who have not experienced persecutions and camps should understand our feelings...
Schuman: Symphony for Strings (Concert Hall String Symphony, Edgar Schenkman conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). This is Manhattan's William Schuman, not to be confused with Clara's Robert. His fifth symphony, it adds little in ideas or execution to what he had to say in the other four. Performance: good...
Married. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, violin virtuoso; and British Ballerina Diana Gould, 33, daughter of a concert pianist, stepdaughter of a British admiral; he for the second time, she for the first; 17 days after his first divorced him; in London...
...author of "Deep are the Roots" and "Tomorrow the World," Gow will follow the general outline of the series in presenting the problems of drama in America and a resume of its development as an art from here. After Gow comes a program on concert music scheduled for November 5 and one on folk music November...