Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of TIME dated Feb. 22 you state in your article called "Fiddler Growing Up" on p. 40 that "Yehudi Menuhin is 15," you continue to say on p. 42, "He demanded an automobile license, too, last spring, got it in California by taking a test on San Francisco's busy Market Street...
...familiar with Russian politics, testifying that he has aided in some social movement like the abolition of illiteracy or alcoholism. The Government then advertises him in simple, forthright fashion. He may not call himself ''World's Greatest Tenor" as does Beniamino Gigli or "Famous Boy Violin Genius'' as does Yehudi Menuhin. Tickets for his concert will cost anywhere from 7¢ to 25¢. Factory workers then get a 60% reduction...
Most prodigious of all musical prodigies was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Heifetz Hofmann and Yehudi Menuhin showed a early genius for playing music that others had written but Mozart at four was composing a concerto, spilling ink all over himself. He was not quite six when his father, a Salzburg violinist, bundled him and his sister Nannerl into a coach, started showing them off to the rest of Europe...
...When Yehudi was four he started studying with Louis Persinger who at the end of two years pronounced him a marvel. Thereupon Banker & Mrs. Sidney M. Ehrman offered to finance the boy's career. Large-hearted patrons usually do more harm than good. They arouse high hopes which are almost never realized.- But Yehudi was born with great imagination and great concentration, far more important than any amount of boosting. By the time he was seven all San Francisco was talking about him. At ten, a chunky, blond child in velvet knee pants, he played the Beethoven Concerto with...
Less intelligent parents might have ruined the boy. But the Menuhins were wise enough to know that Yehudi was not ready to be marketed. They allowed him only one public appearance a year until he was nine, then two a year until he was twelve. They have had able tutors for him and his sisters Hepzibah & Yaltah. He is good at mathematics and history. He knows five languages: Hebrew, which he spoke before English, French, German, Italian. He has been kept out of doors so that he could learn to swim and play tennis. Even now he goes...