Word: menuhin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, a small boy had a birthday, made his party out of such stuff as Mozart, Bach and Tartini and entertained 10.000 guests. He was Yehudi Menuhin, who after two years abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
...cheers; that women were throwing violets at him. Startled, he ran off the stage. His mother protected him from men and women who came plunging through back doors crying, "He is a love!" "He is divine!" Police had to help his motor leave the hall. . . . His name is Yehudi Menuhin. He is 10. He was born in New York, raised in San Francisco. His parents came from Palestine. Both San Francisco and Manhattan have cheered his playing. After hearing him do the solo parts in Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" under Conductor Paul Paray of the famed Lamoureux orchestra...
...Yehudi Menuhin is to study under Master Eugene Ysaÿe of Belgium. His sisters, Yaltah, 5, and Hephzobah, 6, play pianos...