Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yehudi Menuhin added another anecdote to the Toscanini legend. In an interview with syndicated Columnists Tex & Jinx McCrary, Menuhin told of the time he and Toscanini were rehearsing in the peace & quiet of a hotel room...
...Denver, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 34, onetime child prodigy, mused: "I have never looked upon myself as an oddity, or regarded myself as anything but a completely normal human being...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Yehudi Menuhin, guest violinist...
Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Few composers since Bach have been able to write successful sonatas for solo violin. Bartok did, a year before his death in 1945, and Menuhin proves it. Recording: excellent...
Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, 33, pressing his luck in uncertain transatlantic flying weather, arrived in London's jam-packed Albert Hall on a time schedule thinner than an E string. Delayed two days in New York by fog and engine trouble, one day in Shannon, Ireland by fog, he found London closed in by weather, was landed 75 miles away and driven by car to the concert hall. In street clothes, he panted onto the platform an hour and a half late, played two concertos without rehearsal. The crowd of 6,000 cheered him for ten minutes. Said Menuhin...