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When the West produces musical talent (e.g., Fiddlers Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern), it has to go East to be polished. Last week, the West opened a musical finishing school of its own, at luxuriant, seaside Santa Barbara. For $30 a week board and up to $250 for eight weeks' tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound...
Bartók: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Yehudi Menuhin, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Further proof that Bela Bartók, despite a fearsome reputation for arid dissonance, was actually writing fresh and melodic works in his last years. Even with passages that seem to be fiddling for fiddling's sake, Bartók's lone major work for violin should add to his tardy fame. Recording: excellent...
During the two weeks at Lucerne the parade of participating talent was like an all-star game: Menuhin, Casadesus, Sargent, Francescatti, Ansermet, and Kletski. But above all these towered the stumpy, leonine figure of Edwin Fischer. Known to Americans mainly for his recordings of Bach, the sixty-year-old master branched out into other types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Yehudi Menuhin, guest; in Brahms's D Major Violin Concerto...
...raters: the Philadelphia Orchestra, unsponsored, with Eugene Ormandy conducting (Sat. 5 p.m., E.S.T., CBS); the Cleveland Symphony, George Szell conducting (Sat. 6 p.m., E.S.T., Mutual); Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinees, returning Nov. 16 (Sat. 2 p.m., E.S.T., ABC) the Telephone Hour, with such artists as Fritz Kreisler, Lily Pons, Yehudi Menuhin (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T...