Word: yehudi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violin is Yehudi Menuhin's first concern, but not his only one. The 63-year-old virtuoso is an outspoken opponent of energy waste and pollution: to help eliminate both, he is currently test-riding a battery-powered bicycle. Meanwhile at the 31st Frankfurt Book Fair last week, Menuhin received the booksellers' peace prize of $14,000 as "a man who understands music as a medium for peace." Using the medium as a measure of his appreciation, Menuhin rewarded his audience with the chaconne from Bach's Partita in D Minor...
Grapelli's sound, his swing, is unmistakable. He can play exactly as he did in 1934. He has also recorded some modern works with Jean-Luc Ponty. And he has even recorded with Yehudi Menuhin. He will play his versatile violin tomorrow night with the Diz Disley trio at the Berklee Performance Center...
...Begin refers to the West Bank). At the same time, many Israelis doubt his capacity to lead his country to peace because they fear he is too rigid, too suspicious of the Arabs, whom he barely knows, and too traumatized by Jewish history. His harshest critics call him a Yehudi Galuti, a Diaspora Jew, and it is true that for the most part Begin plays to Israelis' fears and suspicions, not to their hopes and dreams...
...Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" Op. 28, arranged for chamber ensemble. The piece is a good introduction to the unusual musical world of Strauss, although I don't know how much of the real flavor actually comes through in a chamber transcription. Beethoven's "Kakadu" Variation for Piano Trio, Yehudi Wyner's Serenade (1958) for seven instruments and Brahms' Quintet for clarinet and strings Op. 115 will also be done. The concert is Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jordan Hall in Boston. Call 266-1492 for info and subscription tickets...
...does things that one would think would simply destroy the form of the piece. But he makes it work because of the tremendous conviction and love that come over with it. The excesses and exaggerations that he applies have shocked lots of people, but with him they are fantastic." Yehudi Menuhin finds nothing surprising in such an approach. "Rubato is part of Slava's way of being," he explains. "He doesn't have to follow a dry metronomic beat. As a string player, he knows what it is to form a phrase, and this is something that not many conductors...