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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the West produces musical talent (e.g., Fiddlers Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern), it has to go East to be polished. Last week, the West opened a musical finishing school of its own, at luxuriant, seaside Santa Barbara. For $30 a week board and up to $250 for eight weeks' tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homegrown | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homegrown | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Bartók: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Yehudi Menuhin, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Further proof that Bela Bartók, despite a fearsome reputation for arid dissonance, was actually writing fresh and melodic works in his last years. Even with passages that seem to be fiddling for fiddling's sake, Bartók's lone major work for violin should add to his tardy fame. Recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Yehudi Menuhin, guest; in Brahms's D Major Violin Concerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...raters: the Philadelphia Orchestra, unsponsored, with Eugene Ormandy conducting (Sat. 5 p.m., E.S.T., CBS); the Cleveland Symphony, George Szell conducting (Sat. 6 p.m., E.S.T., Mutual); Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinees, returning Nov. 16 (Sat. 2 p.m., E.S.T., ABC) the Telephone Hour, with such artists as Fritz Kreisler, Lily Pons, Yehudi Menuhin (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Art | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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