Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four songs by Yehudi Wyner, 1G, received the most appreciative applause of the evening. Although Brownie, based on a poem by A. A. Milne, was described as being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived...
...Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 35, onetime child prodigy who grew up to become one of the leading American-born violinists, and Diana Gould Menuhin, 38, his second wife, former British ballet dancer: their second child (his fourth), a son; in San Francisco. Name: Jeremy Louis Eugene. Weight...
Michael Mann, 34, youngest son of Author Thomas Mann (see BOOKS), chose the Santa Monica High School auditorium for his American debut as a concert violist when he returns from Austria this month. Scheduled to share the program with him: Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...part-time pen-in-hand set was busy churning out autobiographies. Sculptor Jo Davidson promised a limited edition of 74 signed copies at $50 each. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 35, decided it was time to tell his life story; so did Louis Armstrong, Ezio Pinza and Jessica Dragonette. Even Bobo Rockefeller was giving the matter serious thought. Among those who have reached the working title stage: Choreographer Agnes de Mille (Dance to the Piper); Princess lleana of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (I Live Again); Society-Columnist Cobina Wright (/ Never Grew Up); and Actress Charlotte Greenwood (Never Too Tall...
...Hollywood Bowl "Symphonies under the Stars": Gregor Piatigorsky, Yehudi Menuhin, soloists; Jose Iturbi, Alfred Wallenstein, Victor de Sabata conducting...