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...show you how I stand on my head?" said the fiddle player to the Premier. Then both removed their shoes and jackets and went upsy-daisy to discuss the esoteric art of yoga. It was peppery Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 76, paying a courtesy call on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 46, after Menuhin's performance of a Shostakovich-concerto at a kibbutz on the Sea of Galilee. What one man didn't know about music, the other didn't know about politics, but they got along fine. Yoga, confided Menuhin, is the best treatment for his slipped...
...matter how impressive the hotel roster, it is the chalet owners around whom most of Gstaad social life is centered; the at-home set includes such long-time residents as the Earl of Warwick, Conductor Efrem Kurtz, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Swiss Industrialist Louis Chopard, whose wife Nancy specializes in international parties usually attended by at least one countess. One successful hostess, U.S. Freelance Photographer Nancy Holmes, featured as house guests the Rex Harrisons, who made the night sky shake with a mambo in the snow. There are some 250 chalets dotting the valley in and about the village...
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...
...whole program was, in fact, abnormally well endowed with uninspired music. Beethoven's Thirty-two Variations in C Minor, Opus 11, provided Miss Menuhin's solo of the evening; apparently both he and she worked the piece out as a homework assignment. It is, of course, possible that Beethoven intended this as a display of technique, a pianist's tour de force, but in Miss Menuhin's wanderings, the force got lost in the tour. The melody, what there was of it, never managed to crawl out of the piano, since the pedal had a strangle hold...
...coaxed forth the best rich tone of the viola. Under his consistently thoughtful phrasing, the music breathed; it ranged vigorously over a continuum of delicacy and strength. Beneath it all, the piano dully bungled along: too much pedal again, sloppy arpeggios, no subtlety in dynamics. But Brahms surmounted Miss Menuhin's limitations...