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Last week 4,500 Manhattanites paid $12,000 to cram the Metropolitan Opera House while Yehudi Menuhin and his pretty 17-year-old sister Hepzibah played Beethoven's C Minor Sonata for violin and piano. Touching as a brother-sister act, the performance, on its piano side, was far from record-breaking...
Hephizbah Menuhin will make her first bow in Boston when she appears in a joint recital with her brother Yehudi at Symphony Hall next Sunday afternoon. Hephzibah has attracted much attention by the few public appearances she has made, notably in New York. These appearances have been limited on acount of her youth...
Heralded by an unprecedented hullabaloo of publicity, and greeted by a shower of critical ice water, Schumann's "lost" Violin Concerto finally had its U. S. premiere last week, when 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin, former infant prodigy, appearing for his first New York recital in two seasons, played it in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
Last August, after 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin announced he would give Robert Schumann's "lost" violin concerto its world premiere (TIME Aug. 23), the German Government announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff...
Portland, Ore., reporters asked Moshe Menuhin, father of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, whether he had anyone in mind as a wife for his son. Said Papa Menuhin: "He will make the final choice himself. He has many girl friends, yes. I suppose the time will come when he will have to give himself away to one of them...