Word: menuhins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONTREUX-VEVEY FESTIVAL (Aug. 29-Oct. 5) offers a varied but traditional program, including Mozart by Yehudi Menuhin's Festival Orchestra, Bach played on the organ by Munich's Karl Richter, Corelli and Vivaldi by I Musici di Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...
...Allen will host the series of summertime music festivals, with "Casals in Puerto Rico" coming first. Ninety-two-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals conducts Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D Major ("The Prague") and Brahms' Concerto in A Minor for violin, cello and orchestra, with Yehudi Menuhin and Leslie Parvas...
...When I was a boy," the guest conductor told the orchestra, "there were four very good young violinists here in San Francisco. One was Isaac Stern, one was Ruggiero Ricci, one was Yehudi Menuhin, and the fourth was Joe Alioto. I know what happened to the first three-but what ever became of Joe Alioto?" Among other things, he grew up to be mayor of San Francisco. Now he was before the San Francisco Symphony, telling jokes on himself and preparing to lead the orchestra through the opening number of a benefit performance. The mayor, who still practices his violin...
BATH FESTIVAL (June 19-29), 106 miles west of London, is guided by Yehudi Menuhin through a chamber and symphonic series that includes Mozart's one-act opera, The Impresario, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and a program of Viennese waltzes...
...Awards show. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' presentation of this year's Grammys for outstanding performances on records. Those participating in the show include Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, the Fifth Dimension, the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, Chet Atkins, Lou Rawls, Liza Minelli, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin...