Word: menuhin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...
...Straight French Face. The high commissioners disagreed. The battle between them began on the Petersberg, then shifted to the U.S. headquarters at Frankfurt. Unresolved, it was transferred by plane to Berlin, where the commissioners had a date to attend a Yehudi Menuhin concert. They had invited Lieut. General Vasily I. Chuikov, commander of the Russian zone, but Chuikov's seat was vacant...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and wife called at the Vatican for a "very pleasant talk" with Pope Pius XII, a onetime violinist himself (he took lessons for five years in his youth...
Bartok: Sonata No. I (Adolph Bailer, piano; Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Victor, 8 sides). Composed in 1921, when Bartok's own distinctive style was first beginning to take form, the sonata foreshadows the lyric power and rhythmic force of the great Concerto for Violin (1938). In this performance, Bailer's piano overshadows Menuhin's violin. Recording: fair...
...Britain. Last week Furtwangler was signed to conduct three concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic in London next fall. Soloist in two of them: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...