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Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Few composers since Bach have been able to write successful sonatas for solo violin. Bartok did, a year before his death in 1945, and Menuhin proves it. Recording: excellent...
Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, 33, pressing his luck in uncertain transatlantic flying weather, arrived in London's jam-packed Albert Hall on a time schedule thinner than an E string. Delayed two days in New York by fog and engine trouble, one day in Shannon, Ireland by fog, he found London closed in by weather, was landed 75 miles away and driven by car to the concert hall. In street clothes, he panted onto the platform an hour and a half late, played two concertos without rehearsal. The crowd of 6,000 cheered him for ten minutes. Said Menuhin...
...There was so much music in America I was revolted," said Pianist Hepzibah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, on her way back home to Australia after visiting California. "Music is an intruder on every form of life. It's even in grocery stores and beauticians'. And the most repulsive thing about it is that no one is listening...
...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...