Word: menuhin
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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...
Next day, at his own insistence, 31-year-old Jewish Violinist Menuhin faced 2,000 Jews at Dueppel Center. This time he left his fiddle at home. Yes, he had played for the Germans. "I have played for the hard-pressed wherever and whenever I could. . . . You are truly the victims of Naziism, but the tragedy is that you have grown to be like the Nazis. . . . You make your judgments on a racial basis, and you demand that art and music be harnessed in the cause of hate. Love and not hate will heal the world...
...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...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's wife, Nola, who divorced him last fortnight, got a license in Manhattan to marry Businessman Anthony Arthur Williams...
Divorced. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, ex-boy prodigy of the violin, a top adult virtuoso; by Nola Ruby Nicholas Menuhin, 28, daughter of an Australian headache-pill manufacturer; after nine years, two children; in Carson City...