Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to be music-criticism time in Russia-with special emphasis on the backhanded compliment. U.S. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, in Moscow for a congress of the International Music Council, said that he thought Soviet music was moving toward a "certain measure of sophistication." It used to be that "only one approach was tolerated," explained Menuhin. "But now they are beginning to see that there may be two or more approaches to anything. That is what I mean by sophistication." Also in Moscow, Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko commented on the sound of the great Duke Ellington, whose band has been packing...
...sentiment for Latin turned up as well in a recent letter to the London Times, signed by 80 international figures, including Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, Author Graham Greene, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Opera Singer Joan Sutherland. The Latin rite, they argued, "belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians...
...Gerard Menuhin, son of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, was born in Edinburgh when his parents were there for a music festival. Now Gerard, a film editor in London, must return to the U.S. by his 23rd birthday on July 23, and live in the U.S. for five years or lose his American citizenship. Ironically, his younger brother Jeremy. 19, has spent less time in the U.S. but does not face the same danger; he was born in the U.S. Says their father: "It seems illogical to divide two brothers with the same parents and the same experience in life because...
THOUGH the raga has been widely popularized in the United States in recent years, thanks to its introduction by Indian musicians Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, a great unfamiliarity with the art as it is actually practiced in India still exists...