MENUHIN IN RETIREMENT

Radio Record, 12 June 1936, Page 3

MENUHIN IN RETIREMENT

YEHUDI MENUHIN’S great 75,000 miles around-the-world tour lasting seventeen months culminated recently in a concert at the Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, New York. Throwing all precedent aside, the Menuhin family conceded that Hephzibah might accompany her brother. Yehudi held his sister’s hand as they walked on the stage. At. 15, the second Menuhin prodigy shows remarkable talent. Together: the pair: achieved perfect balance; Arturo Toscanini, the famous conductor, sent word back-stage for some more Mozart as an encore. At the beginning of last month they moved to their ranch in California where they: will: remain for two years

while Yehudi has time to rest, study, develop into’ manhood. In his last concert critics noticed a tiredness in his. playing--some have: said that he will play himself oult before he is much ‘oldér-but if that should ever happen it will be through no fault of his parents, who have showered every care on. him, have shunned lavish entertainment, have avoided publicity on his behalf since the prodigy was big enough to lift a fiddle to his chin,