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Married. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, violin virtuoso; and British Ballerina Diana Gould, 33, daughter of a concert pianist, stepdaughter of a British admiral; he for the second time, she for the first; 17 days after his first divorced him; in London...
Once, in his excitement after a brilliant violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
...last symphony concert of the season in the Dutch resort city of Scheveningen. Suddenly, during a Bach violin concerto, Soloist Sam Swaap started scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got back on the track. After him on the program came French Pianist Janine Weill. She got midway through the last movement of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 4, then her fingers became riveted to the keys. The orchestra struggled on by itself for 40 bars before Madame Weill fell...
Divorced. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, ex-boy prodigy of the violin, a top adult virtuoso; by Nola Ruby Nicholas Menuhin, 28, daughter of an Australian headache-pill manufacturer; after nine years, two children; in Carson City...
Bach: Concerto In D Minor for Two Violins (Jascha Heifetz with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Franz Waxman conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Both violin parts are played by Heifetz, who recorded each part separately and then matched them. Stunting with Bach is asking for trouble, but Heifetz carries it off pretty well. Recording: excellent...