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...sentiment for Latin turned up as well in a recent letter to the London Times, signed by 80 international figures, including Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, Author Graham Greene, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Opera Singer Joan Sutherland. The Latin rite, they argued, "belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians...
...Gerard Menuhin, son of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, was born in Edinburgh when his parents were there for a music festival. Now Gerard, a film editor in London, must return to the U.S. by his 23rd birthday on July 23, and live in the U.S. for five years or lose his American citizenship. Ironically, his younger brother Jeremy. 19, has spent less time in the U.S. but does not face the same danger; he was born in the U.S. Says their father: "It seems illogical to divide two brothers with the same parents and the same experience in life because...
...warden of Shropshire Adult College near Shrewsbury, and later to Music Experts George and Mary Firth. The three set up a fund to permit Rosemary to give up her job as a cook and devote herself full time to the composers. Other musicians-among them Michael Tippett and Hepzibah Menuhin-became interested. The BBC asked her to make television appearances. Recently. Philips Records recorded a collection of her old-masterly music. It will be released in the U.S. this month as A Musical Seance...
THOUGH the raga has been widely popularized in the United States in recent years, thanks to its introduction by Indian musicians Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, a great unfamiliarity with the art as it is actually practiced in India still exists...
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...