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Yehudiana - Reliving the Menuhin Odyssey Table of Contents
Foreword vi Introduction viii Overture 1
Chapter 1 Out of the Ghetto 5 1893 - Birth of Moshe Mnuchin (Gomel, Russia) 1896 - Birth of Marutha Sher (Crimea) 1897 - Death of Moshe's father 1908 - Death of Moshe's grandfather 1909 - Moshe attempts to emigrate to America
Chapter 2 Marrying for Love 13 1910 - Moshe meets Marutha in Jerusalem 1913 - Moshe arrives in New York 1914 - Moshe marries Marutha (New York, 7 August) 1916 - Birth of Yehudi (New York, 22 April) 1918 - Menuhin family moves to San Francisco 1919 - Moshe takes US citizenship and changes surname 1920 - Hephzibah born (20 May) 1921 - Yaltah born (7 October)
Chapter 3 The Infant Phenomenon 21 1921 - Yehudi begins violin lessons (31 May) - Yehudi's first public performance (26 November) 1922 - Yehudi's first performance for radio 1923 - Yehudi begins lessons with Persinger 1925 - Yehudi's professional début (30 March) 1926 - New York recital début (17 January) - Début with orchestra (12 March) - Farewell concert, San Francisco (16 November)
Chapter 4 Parallel Paths via Paris 35 1912 - Birth of Diana Gould (12 November) 1926 - Menuhin family in Europe 1927 - Yehudi's Paris début (7 February) - Lessons begin with Enesco
Chapter 5 Jackie Coogan Plays Hamlet 49 1927 - Yehudi's New York orchestral début (24 Nov) - Carnegie Hall recital début (12 December) 1928 - First recordings, San Francisco (15 March) - Hephzibah's recital début, aged 8 years 5 months
Chapter 6 Ballooning over America 57 1928 - Yehudi begins first US tour (16 December) 1929 - Yehudi receives gift of Stradivari violin - Menuhin family returns to Europe
Chapter 7 Surrender in Berlin and London 65 1929 - Yehudi's Berlin orchestral début (12 April) - Yehudi's Bar Mitzvah (22 April) - Berlin recital début (23 April) - Lessons begin with Adolf Busch (Basel) - Yehudi's first European concert tour - Death of Diaghilev and impact on Diana (August) - London concert début (4 November) - London recital début (10 November)
Chapter 8 A French Idyll in the Gathering Storm 81 1930 - Second US tour begins (January) - Family returns to Paris and Basel (May) - Second European tour (September) 1931 - US winter tour - Return to Paris and to lessons with Enesco - Third European tour - Yehudi makes first concerto recording (November) 1932 - US winter tour (14 cities) with Artur Balsam
Chapter 9 Dancing to the Wrong Tune 89 1932 - Yehudi begins collaboration with Toscanini - Enesco and Yehudi win Candide Prize - Elgar's Violin Concerto recorded (14 July) - Diana's involvement in development of British ballet at the Ballet Club with Marie Rambert - Diana joins production of The Miracle
Chapter 10 Waiting for a German Miracle 99 1932 - Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in triumphant Paris début season - Diana returns to Paris for lessons with Egorova - Yehudi attends Salzburg Mozart Festival - Yehudi makes last pre-war appearance in Berlin and plays three-concerto programme in London with Beecham and Elgar conducting. - Music critic refers to Yehudi's lack of bow control - Yehudi makes début in Milan - Fascist thugs assault Toscanini - Toscanini invites Yehudi to perform with him 1933 - Moshe hospitalized for surgery - Menuhin family responds to political situation in Germany - Nazi persecution of Yehudi's concert agent - Menuhins refuse Furtwängler's offer of concerts
Chapter 11 Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow 107 1933 - Yehudi's début in Opera House, San Francisco - Menuhin family returns to Paris - Hephzibah and Yehudi make first joint recording - Yehudi's final pre-war tour of Europe - Diana joins Les Ballets 1933 Company
Chapter 12 Growing Pains 119 1934 - Judson creates monopoly of US concert agencies - Yehudi plays Beethoven VC with Toscanini (Jan) - Family returns to Paris (May) - Yehudi and Hephzibah make recital début (Oct) 1935 - Diana joins De Basil's Company and (later) the Markova - Dolin Company
Chapter 13 Debuts Down Under 129 1934 - World tour begins (October) 1935 - Yehudi speaks out against Hitler and Stalin - Plans prepared for new Menuhin home - Family arrives in Australia (April) - Nola Nicholas becomes Menuhin fan - Critics complain about tour programming - New Zealand visit (June)
Chapter 14 Paradise, Lost and Found 143 1935 - World Tour ends in Europe (November) - Yehudi in Paris recording marathon 1936 - Menuhin family leaves Europe for California - Villa Cherkess site for new home abandoned - Yehudi faces technical difficulties on the violin - Ferguson Webster appointed accompanist 1937 - Yehudi turns twenty-one unheralded (22 April) - Yehudi joins race to give world première of Schumann's embargoed Violin Concerto - Winter US tour begins (October)
Chapter 15 Three Weddings and a Phoney War 159 1938 - Concert tour of UK (February) - Nola and Lindsay Nicholas meet Menuhin family at Royal Albert Hall, London (21 March) - Yehudi and Nola married (London, 26 May) - Yaltah makes a one-off recording with Yehudi
Chapter 16 Nola in the Garden of Eden 167 1938 - Menuhin family sails from UK to New York (June) - Yaltah marries William Stix in New York (7 June) - Yehudi and Nola begin married life domiciled with Yehudi's parents at Rancho Yaltah, Los Gatos - Hephzibah marries Lindsay Nicholas (16 July) - Jewish press critical of Menuhin siblings marrying non-Jews and for holding Hephzibah's wedding on a Saturday - Yehudi takes Nola on belated honeymoon - Hephzibah and Lindsay sail for Australia (September) - Nola accompanies Yehudi and Moshe on five-month concert tour of America and Europe
Chapter 17 Battle Fronts 175 1938 - Yehudi resists pressure to join a union - Moshe admits to Yehudi's birth-date deception - Yaltah's first marriage ends - Nola announces first pregnancy 1939 - Diana begins ballet classes with Lydia Sokolova - De Basil's company faces uncertain future - Diana makes last pre-war visit to Europe - World War 11 declared (3 September) - Zamira Menuhin born (29 September) - Yehudi begins shortened winter US tour 1940 - Yehudi starts unscheduled sabbatical - Nola, Yehudi, and entourage sail for Australia - Krov Menuhin born (Melbourne, 17 August) 1941 - Yehudi begins first tour of South America (May) - Yaltah elopes with Benjamin Rolfe
Chapter 18 The Brotherhood of War 191 1940 - Diana witness to evacuation of troops from Dunkirk (May) - London Blitz begins (September) 1941 - Queen's Hall destroyed in air raid (May) - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour (December) - Yehudi begins exploration of music of Béla Bartόk - Yehudi and Adolf Baller give first troop recital 1942 - Yehudi begins marathon tours playing for the public, for war charities, and for troops - Fall of Singapore (February) - Nola and Yehudi move to "Alma" residence - Nola suffers miscarriage - Yehudi fails in first effort to reach wartime London
Chapter 19 The Wages of Immortality 205 1941 - Diana joins opera/ballet company 1942 - Diana assumes directorship of New Russian Ballet - Diana in production of What Every Woman Knows 1943 - Yehudi arrives by bomber for six-week UK tour - Yehudi decorated with Croix de Lorraine - Diana joins ENSA for tour of Egypt and Italy
Chapter 20 Trouping the Pacific Theatre 213 1943 - Yehudi begins second tour of South America - Yehudi‘s first public performance of work by Bartόk (November) - Yehudi and Baller play Bartόk's First Sonata for the composer in private run-through - Yehudi commissions solo work from Bartόk 1944 - Nola works as nursing aide and suffers second miscarriage - Yehudi and Baller give 64 recitals in the Aleutians - Fatigue affects Yehudi's performances (February) - Bartόk delivers Solo Sonata manuscript - Yehudi and Baller give troop recitals in Hawaii
Chapter 21 Coup de pouffe 225 1944 - Paris liberated (August) - Liberation of Brussels and Antwerp (September) - Yehudi returns to Britain for tour of naval establishments, military hospitals, and factories - Yehudi meets Diana (September) - Allied advance in Europe stalled at Arnhem - Yehudi plays recitals in Brussels and Antwerp - "Return" concert in Paris (October) - Moshe senses discord in Yehudi's marriage - Yehudi gives première of Bartόk's Solo Sonata
Chapter 22 The Validity of Impulse 235 1944 - Diana rejoins cast of The Merry Widow for end of London season and for tour to Europe (Dec) 1945 - Yehudi and Nola face marriage crisis (January) - Yehudi plays in concert commemorating the founding of the United Nations (April) - VE Day celebrated in London (8 May) - Yehudi returns to London (June): records film soundtrack and plans visit to German death camps
Chapter 23 Bergen-Belsen, Hell on Earth 271 1945 - Yehudi asks British Army of Occupation for permission to play for Jewish and German survivors of Nazi tyrrany - Benjamin Britten replaces Gerald Moore as Yehudi's accompanist for the tour of Germany - Yehudi and Britten give recital (27 July) in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Yehudi performs Mendelssohn VC in NDR broadcast from Hamburg - Mixed response of Displaced Persons to Yehudi's gestures of sympathy
Chapter 24 To Russia With Love 279 1945 - Nola and Yehudi face issue of divorce - Diana's sister treated for TB - Yehudi returns to London for concerts (October) - Epstein's bust of Yehudi unveiled - Yehudi plays charity concerts in Prague (November) - Yehudi invites himself to Russia (November) - Rapturous reception for Yehudi in Moscow - Yehudi inspired by visit to Moscow's Central School of Music - David Oistrakh joins Yehudi in performance - Yehudi's affair with Diana deepens
Chapter 25 A Dual Life 289 1945 - Yehudi defends Furtwängler against accusations of collaboration with the Nazi regime - Diana's stepfather knighted (December) 1946 - Critics assess the state of Yehudi's post-war performance - Recognition from Music War Council of Yehudi's contribution to the Pacific War effort - Nola brings her children to join Yehudi in London before engagements and holiday in Europe (April) - Yehudi and Nola in reunion with Enesco in Romania - Family summer holiday in Switzerland - Louis Kentner and Griselda married in Zurich (May) - Yehudi meets Richard Hauser (later to marry Hephzibah) - Antal Doráti and Yehudi give début recital at Salzburg Festival - Yehudi enjoys airborne adventures across Europe - Diana attempts revival of career in New York
Chapter 26 Outflanking Nola 299 1946 - Diana arrives in California (December) - Hephzibah meets Paul Morawetz en route from Australia to California - Diana meets reunited Menuhin family at Christmas and joins entourage for West Coast concert tour 1947 - Yehudi includes Diana in family holiday in Florida - Hephzibah and Yehudi in "return" NY recital (March) - Nola agrees to final separation from Yehudi - Menuhins arrive in London for recitals - Willa Cather dies (April) - Diana joins Yehudi for European concert tour - Menuhins participate in Prague Spring Festival - Hephzibah visits Theresienstadt camp - Nola starts pre-divorce residency in Reno - Zamira and Krov begin European summer holiday with Diana and Yehudi - Yehudi breaks holiday to visit Casals in Prades - Yehudi plays under Furtwängler at Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals - Yehudi commissions sonata from William Walton - Divorce and property settlement filed in Reno
Chapter 27 Carrying the Healing Message 313 1947 - Yehudi and Diana visit Berlin for concerts with Furtwängler (September) - Displaced Persons express dismay over concert scheduling; Yehudi and Diana appease camp inmates - Marcel Gazelle and Yehudi reunited for recitals in Scandinavia - Yehudi proposes to Diana in Copenhagen; couple returns to London to prepare for wedding - Nola marries Anthony Williams (October)
Acknowledgements 295 References 296 Illustrations 297 Index 299 Letters Index 319
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