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...popular conception in Israel, where, next to having a college professor in the family, the proudest parents are those who can boast about "my son the violin player." Indeed, the front rank of the world's best violinists is predominantly Jewish-David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Leonid Kogan, Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern...
HANDEL: THE TWELVE CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 6 (4 LPs; Angel). Using the same basic means- two violins and a cello set against a small orchestra- Handel achieved widely different moods. Yehudi Menuhin plays one of the violins in the trio and conducts the Bath Festival Orchestra with the same scholarly fidelity and high musical spirits that he displayed in his recent recording of the Water Music...
...success of his festivals comes from Menuhin's determined attempts to keep them from succeeding in any conventional sense. Performers are scantily paid, audiences are limited, and the programs are the rarest of musical fare. They are holidays for strings. He regards the meeting of musicians at Bath and Gstaad as "private festivals for Yehudi and friends, with the public tolerated-it's very much a family affair...
...Guru, Too. Performing with Menuhin and rehearsing at his $150,000 chalet at Gstaad were the family's four concert pianists: Sisters Hephzibah and Yaltah, Brother-in-Law Joel Rycé" (Yal-tah's husband) and Son-in-Law Fou Ts'ong, 24, who defected from Red China in 1959 and married Yehudi's daughter Zamira two years later. Also present at the get-together: Menuhin's favorite guru, B.S.K. lyengar, from Bombay...
...Despite Menuhin's disregard for audiences, the Bath and Gstaad festivals are more popular than ever. "People are ready for such a novel approach," he says. "Besides, it's the only thing that prevents musicians like myself from getting stale." Menuhin is brimming with new projects, most notably London's Yehudi Menuhin School for musically gifted children, which he founded last year "to preserve our species from extinction." Last week the itch to move along was upon him again. Gazing up at the snow-veined mountains, he mused: "Pretty soon we will be traveling again . . . linking, bridging...