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...year-old Catalan exile through the town and crowded his little house. Said one peeved old Pradesan: "If Casals scratches, they have to scratch the same place." But the top-rank musicians who came to Prades were hardly less worshipful. "What does Prades mean to a musician?" said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin to a reporter who caught him strolling through town in shorts, with a bunch of daisies in his hand. "It means the chance to play with Casals. Why does [Pianist] Eugene Istomin come year after year? No other reason except to play with Casals. This festival is just...
Other noteworthy new records: Bach's Double Concerto, played by Yehudi Menuhin and Gioconda De Vito (Victor); Debussy Piano Music, played by Robert Casadesus, sometimes assisted by his wife Gaby (Columbia, 3 LPs); 50 Years of Great Operatic Singing (Victor, 5 LPs) ; The Saint of Bleecker Street, with the original cast, including David Poleri and Gloria Lane, conducted by Thomas Schippers (Victor, 2 LPs); 60 Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Ralph Kirkpatrick; Columbia...
Prades (July 2-18) will present famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 78, in his sixth festival, this one devoted to music of Bach, Schubert and Brahms. Other soloists: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Pianists Eugene Istomin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski; Singers Eleanor Steber, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Jan Peerce...
...breezy deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth, just before they sailed for Europe, Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, loud-tooting czar of the A.F.L. musicians, shot the breeze with one of his most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...
...Person to Person, Ed Murrow served up another entertaining mixture of eggheads and rough diamonds. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his mannered British wife, Diana, were full of intellectual pleasantries and happy memories of nights at Windsor Castle playing command performances for the royal family; next came earthy Rocky Graziano, his pretty wife and two shy children. An ex-delinquent, ex-world champion and, presently, a TV actor, Rocky had a fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor...