Word: menuhin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th birthday last week Yehudi Menuhin gave his last Manhattan concert before he tours the world for a year, rests for another on his new California ranch. To spare harassed box-office employes, an advertisement was published six days before the concert to say that all seats in Carnegie Hall were sold. During the day Yehudi received 150 telegrams and a new projector for his cinema camera. In the evening he played Mozart with rare grace and delicacy. His Bach, without accompaniment, was exuberant and sure. A new sonata by Rumanian Georges Enesco had a true gypsy flair. Said Critic...
...Canada last week. Mischa Elman was due to arrive from Europe. Sleek Albert Spalding was in New England. After 25 concerts Bronislaw Hubermann sailed to play in London but he will return in February for a General Motors' broadcast and an engagement with the Philadelphia orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin's dates cram sheets of paper. He played 18 times in Europe this autumn. He now has 25 concerts in the U. S., to be followed by some 50 in Australia, 28 in South Africa. At the end of his world tour in February 1936, his parents will make...
Extra police were called out to manage the crowds and more than 500 clamoring New Yorkers were turned from the doors. Inside Manhattan's Town Hall last week the most curious audience of the musical season had gathered to hear Hephzibah Menuhin, 15, play piano and violin sonatas with her prodigious brother Yehudi...
Paris and London had sent glowing reports of the second Menuhin prodigy, whose parents have kept her clear of the concert platform until this year (TIME, Dec. 10). But New Yorkers had to hear for themselves before they would believe that she had half the talent of her idolized brother. The youthful pair chose a program which would have taxed most grown-up musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise...
...sometimes sleazy. The Schumann was richly romantic, the Beethoven flawless in shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance was all they would permit. If Hephzibah can be argued out of a concert career her parents will be happier. Says...