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...Bucharest a famed master and a famed pupil played together for the first time in six years. In those years the pupil had won greater fame, and the master had lived in obscurity. The pupil was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar. Enesco had almost dropped from sight after his country went Fascist...
...reunite master and pupil, the Rumanian Government flew Menuhin, his wife and two children, from Zurich in a special plane. In a Bucharest movie house Enesco, now 64 and bent with arthritis, played piano to Yehudi's fiddle, and conducted the Rumanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In eight days they played seven concerts, one of them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge...
...crowd cheered everything indiscriminately, and wept over Enesco's own stormy Sonata No. 3 in A Minor. For Menuhin and Enesco the concerts were warmups. They plan to play together in the U.S. next fall...
...reprints are all in the public domain. Because Russia, like the U.S., is not a member of the Berne copyright convention, and has no copyright treaty with the U.S., Soviet Composer Serge Prokofieff is on the Hampton list. Hampton sells his Classical Symphony for $17.25. Rumanian Georges Enesco's early works were for some reason never copyrighted; Hampton sells his Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 for $20 (the European edition costs...
...radio, I heard the speaker say, 'And now you will hear Partita No. 1 by Bach played by Yehudi Menuhin,' and the music flew in that farm as some years before in the Opera House in Paris, or the Salle Pleyel. And I remembered your playing with Enesco and orchestra under direction of Monteux and the only remembrance of these souvenirs of mine was so hot, they swept away the winds in the country, the planes overhead, and the anti-aircraft engines, and the guns and all that sort of thing...