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...much what he does to the clock that defines El Guerrouj. It is the apparent ease with which he turbines energy down through his heart, lungs and legs onto the track. Like a Menuhin or a Matisse, El Guerrouj is the consummate artist who makes the end product look as simple as a tune-up or a rough draft. That was certainly the impression he left with those of us lucky enough to see him run the 1,500 m at the world championships in Seville last year. He crossed the line slowing down to a 3:27.65 clocking, blowing...
DIED. YEHUDI MENUHIN, 82, icon of 20th century music and world-renowned humanitarian; of heart failure; in Berlin. A few years after stunning a San Francisco audience at his first major concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included...
...party, Ptashne and Chen played two famous Guarnieri violins which make up part of Ptashne's instrument collection. Chen played the D'Egville, the violin that musician Yehudi Menuhin used to build his career...
Ptashne says he decided to make the purchase after consulting Menuhin himself...
...remembered from Menuhin's biography that he had been associated with this violin so I called Menuhin, and he said it was the greatest violin in the world," Ptashne says. "I sold everything and bought...