Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ERNEST BLOCH: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Angel). Bloch was noted for his Jewish music, but in this work he denied having any Hebraic inspiration or intention and referred to the main theme as the "American Indian." The overtones are oriental nevertheless, and the coloring exotic. Yehudi Menuhin, who first played for Bloch when he was six, lends to the work of his late friend a special intensity, as though he were celebrating a mystery...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Yehudi Menuhin, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ray Bolger. Color...
...show you how I stand on my head?" said the fiddle player to the Premier. Then both removed their shoes and jackets and went upsy-daisy to discuss the esoteric art of yoga. It was peppery Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 76, paying a courtesy call on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 46, after Menuhin's performance of a Shostakovich-concerto at a kibbutz on the Sea of Galilee. What one man didn't know about music, the other didn't know about politics, but they got along fine. Yoga, confided Menuhin, is the best treatment for his slipped...
...matter how impressive the hotel roster, it is the chalet owners around whom most of Gstaad social life is centered; the at-home set includes such long-time residents as the Earl of Warwick, Conductor Efrem Kurtz, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Swiss Industrialist Louis Chopard, whose wife Nancy specializes in international parties usually attended by at least one countess. One successful hostess, U.S. Freelance Photographer Nancy Holmes, featured as house guests the Rex Harrisons, who made the night sky shake with a mambo in the snow. There are some 250 chalets dotting the valley in and about the village...
...Sarasate Habañera and Jota Navarra-music that calls for the sort of flash and fire that have distinguished Ricci throughout his career. His admirers are drawn by the electric tension that sets him apart from two other famous San Francisco-trained prodigies-Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, who are closer to the rhapsodic Russians in their general style...