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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...
Chopin's etudes provide a lamentable example. This set of 24 studies, taken as a whole, forms one of the great milestones in the history of music, yet the only American recording is a two-volume Columbia set which was entrusted to Edward Kilenyi, a young virtuoso who has proven himself utterly incapable of fulfilling such a responsibility...
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...
...cornerstone of Kramer's championship game is confidence. In varying degrees all champions must have a deep belief in themselves. Henri Cochet and Fred Perry had plenty of it; Tilden, the prissy virtuoso, had it to an insolent degree. It is the same quality that enabled Babe Ruth to point to the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field during one World Series game and slam the most famed home run of his career...
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Isaac Stern, with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). A melodic and romantic showpiece by a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, in an impressive performance by young Virtuoso Stern (TIME, June 23)'. Recording: good...