Word: menuhin
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DIED. YEHUDI MENUHIN, 82, icon of 20th century music and world-renowned humanitarian; of heart failure; in Berlin. A few years after stunning a San Francisco audience at his first major concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included...
...party, Ptashne and Chen played two famous Guarnieri violins which make up part of Ptashne's instrument collection. Chen played the D'Egville, the violin that musician Yehudi Menuhin used to build his career...
Ptashne says he decided to make the purchase after consulting Menuhin himself...
...remembered from Menuhin's biography that he had been associated with this violin so I called Menuhin, and he said it was the greatest violin in the world," Ptashne says. "I sold everything and bought...
However, as with many of her recordings, I cannot give this one a whole-hearted recommendation. Midori stands now at a crucial cross-roads betwixt being a child prodigy and a mature musician. Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci are two who never crossed this chasm successfully, and only time will tell with the upcoming generation. Joshua Bell and Julian Rachlin struggle to get recognition, Sarah Chang remains largely untested outside of choreographable showpiece repertoire, and how much longer Helene Grimaud and Evgeny Kissin shall wax incandescent remains to be seen. I will be the first to laud Midori...