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Menuhin : a life / Humphrey Burton.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML418.M27 B87 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burton, Humphrey, 1931-2025, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999.
- Menuhin, Yehudi.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Childhood 1916-1930
- 1 Origins 3
- 2 The Prodigy 15
- 3 'Keep your eyes on the stars' 50
- 4 Swiss Family Menuhin 94
- Part 2 Youth 1931-1941
- 5 Jeunesse dorée 119
- 6 The World Tour 142
- 7 Escape from Paradise 172
- 8 Midsummer Marriages 197
- Part 3 Coming of Age 1941-1956
- 9 Menuhin at War - 'I have come to know my American brother' 223
- 10 The Uneasy Peace 246
- 11 Life with Diana 290
- 12 Discovery of India 323
- Part 4 The Sage of Highgate 1956-1968
- 13 Moving to Europe 357
- 14 The Impresario 371
- 15 Interlude: 'A Day in the Life of Yehudi Moshevitch' / Diana Menuhin Menuhin, Diana 397
- 16 The School - Utopia in Stoke d'Abernon 401
- Part 5 'I was born old, and have been growing younger ever since' 1969-1999
- 17 Confrontations and Collaborations 421
- 18 Maestro Menuhin 451
- 19 Pinal Years 482
- 20 Coda 505.
- ISBN:
- 9780571325320
- 0571325327
- OCLC:
- 922157669
- Publisher Number:
- 99967803783
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