Word: menuhins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...
Fleeing from war-gripped Europe to the U. S., canceling tours in war sectors was many a famed musician: Violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Conductor Arturo Toscanini, Singers Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior...
...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
Home to her mother at Los Gatos, Calif., after seven months of marriage, went Yaltah Menuhin Stix, 16, younger sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Husband William Stix, attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, said nothing. Mother Menuhin said Yaltah would remain in California until "the inclement weather is over...
Married. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, piano-playing sister of violin-playing Yehudi; to Lindsay Nicholas, 22-year-old Australian rancher and brother of Yehudi's bride of two months; with no music; at Los Gatos, Calif. Hephzibah was the third & last of the three Menuhins to wed, all in two months. Younger Sister Yaltah is married to Washington Attorney William Stix...