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Young Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin recently announced he would play the world premiere of Robert Schumann's lost violin concerto in St. Louis on Nov. 12 (TIME, Aug. 23). At his summer home in Los Gatos, Calif. Violinist Menuhin last week received the following cable from Germany: "German Government decided today world premiére performance Schumann Concerto can only take place at official anniversary Reichskulturkammer, Berlin, Nov. 13. All previously announced first performances elsewhere with piano accompaniment must be postponed...
...feel as if I have a holy trust," exclaimed Yehudi Menuhin last week. "The work is so great and so beautiful." Papa Moshe Menuhin revealed that his son had dragged Sister Hephzibah Menuhin to the piano, mastered the concerto in a few days, and "wept with joy" to find that the work justified his faith in the sanity of Schumann's last years. In a lengthy press release Papa Menuhin said that Violinist Menuhin had insisted that nothing but the Urtext, the original unedited "pure Schumann, 100% of it," be printed, for "Yehudi said: 'I ask no special...
Today, Georges Enesco remains a great violinist and a gifted composer. Rumanians consider him their best conductor as well. To him they owe the beginnings of a true Rumanian school in music. For eleven years Enesco was Yehudi Menuhin's violin teacher, and the two broadcast a violin duet together last fortnight in Manhattan. Prodigy Menuhin, now 20, says: "In Enesco I have discovered what I have been searching for all my lifetime...
...young musician who recently completed an around-the-world tour and will remain in retirement for two years to rest and study is (1 Yehudi Menuhin, 2 Inez Gorman, 3 Ruth Slenczinski, 4 Nelson Eddy, 5 Doris Humphrey...
...Russian, the Rumanian and the Mexican will come for two weeks each. Igor Stravinsky will undoubtedly concentrate on his own music which others can make sound better than he does. Georges Enesco, mentor of Yehudi Menuhin, is also best known as a composer. Mexico's Carlos...