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...with Princess Grace. There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
Musical high point of the evening: Bartok's Violin Concerto, with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist. The orchestra played with parade-drilled smoothness and reflex-sharp rhythmic feel. Said Menuhin afterwards: "It's the first time I ever played the whole concerto straight through at rehearsal without stopping and explaining. This music is in their blood; it's like American children dancing rock 'n' roll...
...artists could ignore a manager who had such inviting connections. The contracts that piled up in his combine's safes bore the signatures of such eminent names as Menuhin, Heifetz, Elman, Horowitz, Pons, Gigli. Eventually, his ever-spreading ventures were bitterly opposed by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, who reportedly maneuvered Judson's resignation from the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934, and by the U.S. Government itself, which won an antitrust suit against Columbia Artists and an affiliate last year...
...pointed out that the family piano was flat. A few months later, his parents sold their home and possessions in Bolivia to give him U.S. training (in San Francisco). After one of his rare appearances four years ago, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "In the 1920s it was Yehudi Menuhin, in the 1930s it was Isaac Stern; and [now it is] Jaime Laredo." After that, scholarships, first with Concertmaster Josef Gingold of the Cleveland Orchestra, and then with Master Teacher Ivan Galamian at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, with whom he still studies...
...Moscow, top-ranking U.S. Violinist Isaac Stern was turned loose in the hall where Yehudi Menuhin, the last American artist to play in Russia, fiddled a decade ago. More than 2,000, including (as the U.S.S.R.'s Violinist David Oistrakh put it) "all the violinists in Moscow," crammed the hall. A member of the diplomatic corps called it the most elegant gathering seen in Moscow in years...