Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Carnival of the Menuhins" focuses on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his musical family at home and in concert...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtuoso Teacher" shows both aspects of Concert Violinist Joseph Fuchs's professional life: at work readying two of his Juilliard students for a music competition, and in concert with Yehudi Menuhin last summer at the Bath Festival...
...decade of performing in the West, Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar, 47, has won a devoted following among musicians from Jazzman Dave Brubeck to Beatle George Harrison. But only one notable Westerner has ever performed with him: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 51, longtime apostle of Indian culture and faithful practitioner of yoga. The two met in India in 1952, and Menuhin persuaded Shankar to play last summer at the Bath Festival in England. In what both performers termed "an experiment," Menuhin practiced his violin for two days under Shankar's coaching so that he could sit in on a raga...
Polo Balls. To begin with, even the foremost violinists are out of tune. Jascha Heifetz, Leonid Kogan and Isaac Stern like the dark, virile tone of the Guarneri; Zino Francescatti, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh prefer the lighter, silvery tone of the Stradivari. The Guarneri has the breadth and projection of a contralto, says one camp. Ah, yes, but the Strad has the clarity and finesse of a soprano, counters the other. That Stradivari enjoys a more illustrious reputation, says Heifetz, is because "he had a better pressagent." Actually, claims Jascha, "the Guarneri is a joyous woman, richly experienced...
ELGAR: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN B MINOR (Angel). Sir Edward Elgar himself conducted when Yehudi Menuhin, as a prodigy of 16, first recorded this expansive, romantic showpiece. Recording techniques have come a long way since 1932, and Menuhin, at 50, has greater emotional involvement, as well as a marvelously burnished tone, now flashing, now fading in a wide-ranging display...