Word: menuhin
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Last evening's program by a fine violist, Paul Doktor, and a muddy pianist, Yaltah Menuhin (fille), offered Brahma, Debussy, and Kabalevsky, all for the price of Hindemith. Hindemith's Sonata No. 1 for viola (1920) is what is known in scholarly circles as a review of the literature. It starts with annotated Schubert and proceeds to Brahms, citing from impressionistic Debussy as needed. An extensive quote of the born motive in Brahms' Fourth Symphony provides the theme for a set of variations, wherein Hindemith invokes the style of Kabalevsky's 24 Easy Pieces for Children; and paraphrases...
...Sarasate Habañera and Jota Navarra-music that calls for the sort of flash and fire that have distinguished Ricci throughout his career. His admirers are drawn by the electric tension that sets him apart from two other famous San Francisco-trained prodigies-Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, who are closer to the rhapsodic Russians in their general style...
...years ago Pianist Fou Ts'Ong, one of Communist China's brightest cultural lights, was sent to Britain for a concert. Instead of going home, he defected and immediately found refuge in the London home of middle-aging (44) Vio lin Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. There he met Menuhin's dreamy-eyed daughter Zamira (whose name means "peace" in Russian and "nightingale" in Hebrew). When Zamira, now 21, was born, her father said, "I want this baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity." Zamira did not grow...
...most distinctive feature is the way in which it separates the various sections of the orchestra: instead of aiming for a thickly blended sound. Conductor Mravinsky emphasizes differences in coloration. The tempos, even in romantic composers, are brisk, martial-and not to every taste. Said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, after hearing the Leningrad play Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony: "I never want to hear the Fifth played again by anyone else." But the London Observer's critic, after hearing Tchaikovsky's melancholy Sixth (the "Pathétique") given a robust, uplifting performance, demurred: "I cannot bring myself to believe...
Married. Yaltah Menuhin, 38, piano-playing sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Pianist Hephzibah Menuhin; and Joel Ryce, 27, also a concert pianist; she for the third time, he for the first; in Sterling...