Fellow f-minors:
I too was shocked to hear that Yehudi Menuhin died. I
only saw him in performance once: when he came to Ann Arbor, Michigan in the mid
1980's (around 1986-87) and conducted the Warsaw Chamber Orchestra (if I
remember the name of the group correctly) and really enjoyed his way with an
orchestra. As much as I respect him as a great humanitarian, his name will be
best remembered as a great violinist and the Yehudi Menuhin School he left
behind.
Regarding his relationship with Glenn Gould, it is amazing to
me as well that Glenn would allow Yehudi to speak "off the script" as
it were (for example in that Gould-Menuhin conversation in the "Music of
Man" series). It is probably one of the few recorded examples of the way
Glenn Gould sounded unscripted (more or less) and to me he sounds far more human
and sunnier than just reading words from a script. Frankly I would rather have
Gould speak unscripted more than he spoke scripted, but that is just my opinion.
In any event, be well and take care.
Daniel Vaiser
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From: Allan MacLeod <allan.macleod@usask.ca> To: f_minor-og@email.rutgers.edu <f_minor-og@email.rutgers.edu> Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 1:50 PM Subject: Menuhin I was shocked to hear of Menuhin's death. He was getting old, but |