Word: menuhins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an around-the-world tour that covered 75,000 miles, took him to 13 countries and 73 cities, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 19, returned to Manhattan last week, gave a performance that was to mark a milestone in his amazing career...
Crowds had thronged to hear him in Europe, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. Another record crowd pushed its way into Carnegie Hall last week where the boy appeared unaffected by the siege of adulation. For the Manhattan concert the Menuhin family made a special concession. Yehudi's sister Hephzibah was permitted to play with her celebrated brother...
Unlike many a prodigy, young Marjorie Edwards is a natural, unthwarted person who rides a bicycle, collects stamps, wishes she could tap dance better than she does, reveres Yehudi Menuhin. Her father is an automobile salesman in San Jose, her mother a piano teacher who has given lessons to the grocer's child and taken food for pay. Young Marjorie drummed out piano scales long before she was given her first violin. But the fiddle revealed her talent. At 9 she had progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week...
When the Kreisler hoax became known, Mischa Elman was pompously indignant. Said he: "It is indeed a surprise that one who stands so high for all that is beautiful, pure and true in art as Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable...
...fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood of man dawns. The bankers meditate upon getting loans from London or even from Nazi Berlin. And David, the poet, marvels at the bravery of Amanda...