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...Diana Menuhin was not exaggerating. More like an Olympic sprinter in training than a 48-year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which...
Rare Fare. Menuhin insists that his supercharged summers are actually periods of rejuvenation, a chance to play new works after the long winter rounds of touring with standard repertory. This year Menuhin, who totes around a suitcase crammed with untried compositions, has performed a wide range of pieces that he has never before played in public, including several world premieres. At last week's Gstaad Festival, held in a picturesque village high in the Swiss Alps, capacity crowds jammed a 17th century church for a program of rarely heard Spanish chamber music, which Menuhin and a handpicked chamber orchestra...
ERNEST BLOCH: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Angel). Bloch was noted for his Jewish music, but in this work he denied having any Hebraic inspiration or intention and referred to the main theme as the "American Indian." The overtones are oriental nevertheless, and the coloring exotic. Yehudi Menuhin, who first played for Bloch when he was six, lends to the work of his late friend a special intensity, as though he were celebrating a mystery...
...Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than the more fluid and poetic Strads, which are the first choice of Milstein, Oistrakh, Francescatti and Menuhin...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Yehudi Menuhin, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ray Bolger. Color...