Word: menuhin
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...visiting celebrity of the season so far was tall, blonde Helene Thimig Reinhardt, who traveled from New York to play her old role of Faith in the English morality play Everyman, originally staged in Salzburg by her late, great husband, Max Reinhardt. Yet to appear: Conductor John Barbirolli, Yehudi Menuhin and Grace Moore. Conspicuously absent was Austria's No. 1 conductor, arrogant 37-year-old Herbert von Karajan, a Salzburg boy who made good in Germany under the sponsorship of Hermann Göring. The Allied Council in Vienna turned him down at the last minute...
...Bucharest a famed master and a famed pupil played together for the first time in six years. In those years the pupil had won greater fame, and the master had lived in obscurity. The pupil was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar. Enesco had almost dropped from sight after his country went Fascist...
...reunite master and pupil, the Rumanian Government flew Menuhin, his wife and two children, from Zurich in a special plane. In a Bucharest movie house Enesco, now 64 and bent with arthritis, played piano to Yehudi's fiddle, and conducted the Rumanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In eight days they played seven concerts, one of them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge...
...crowd cheered everything indiscriminately, and wept over Enesco's own stormy Sonata No. 3 in A Minor. For Menuhin and Enesco the concerts were warmups. They plan to play together in the U.S. next fall...
Bach: Sonata in E for Violin and Harpsichord (Yehudi Menuhin and Wanda Landowska; Victor, 6 sides). Two stars dazzle in some of Bach's best. Performance: good...