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Married. Fou Ts'Ong, 39, concert pianist who in 1959 defected to the West from Communist China; and Hijong Hyun, 29, daughter of South Korea's Ambassador to Morocco; he for the second time (after an earlier marriage to Zamira Menuhin, daughter of Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin), she for the first; in London...
...chalet at Gstaad were the family's four concert pianists: Sisters Hephzibah and Yaltah, Brother-in-Law Joel Rycé" (Yal-tah's husband) and Son-in-Law Fou Ts'ong, 24, who defected from Red China in 1959 and married Yehudi's daughter Zamira two years later. Also present at the get-together: Menuhin's favorite guru, B.S.K. lyengar, from Bombay...
...Communist China's brightest cultural lights, was sent to Britain for a concert. Instead of going home, he defected and immediately found refuge in the London home of middle-aging (44) Vio lin Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. There he met Menuhin's dreamy-eyed daughter Zamira (whose name means "peace" in Russian and "nightingale" in Hebrew). When Zamira, now 21, was born, her father said, "I want this baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity." Zamira did not grow up to be a musician, but she soon made it plain that...
Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...