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Diana Menuhin was not exaggerating. More like an Olympic sprinter in training than a 48-year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which...
...Menuhin's determined attempts to keep them from succeeding in any conventional sense. Performers are scantily paid, audiences are limited, and the programs are the rarest of musical fare. They are holidays for strings. He regards the meeting of musicians at Bath and Gstaad as "private festivals for Yehudi and friends, with the public tolerated-it's very much a family affair...
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...