YEHUDI MENUHIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 10

YEHUDI MENUHIN

This morning will mark the opening of the box plan for the one concert to be given in Dunedin at the Town Hall on Saturday next by the brilliant violinist, Yehudi Menuhin. Greater interest and heavier preferential bookings have been experienced by the box office than for any other artist who has visited the Dominion. The immense audiences which have crowded the various auditoriums in almost every principal city of the world to hear Yehudi Menuhin have experienced emotions probably unknown to them before and just as likely never to occur again. With extreme brevity the critics and public have summed up this genius. The Royal Albert Hall, seating 10,000, was filled to capacity in October last, making the tenth time that Menuhin has played to a capacity audience in this famous auditorium. New Zealand musiclovers have not been behind those of other cities and have taken full advantage of this opportunity to hear the greatest musfcal celebrity of the age. Yehudi Menuhin's technique is said to be a revelation of consummate artistry —the artist is in complete harmony with the .beautiful instrument he plays. All the promises about Yehudi Menuhin's being the rival of Paganini have been redeemed. Paganini's name has a fascination for the masses, but he who will compare the programmes of Yehudi Menuhin with those-of Paganini should reach the conclusion that Menuhin is more than the rival of Paganini. For Menuhin plays with such perfection not only the works of Paganini in their complete version, which no one dares to play to-day, but he plays Bach and Beethoven as Paganini never dared to, outside his private home. Whoever will recall the descriptions of Paganini will at once see the difference between him and one who emulates him in the reincarnation of his art. A very interesting programme, which ■ includes the works of Bach, Tartini-Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Sarasate, Debussy-Hartmann, Baxinni, KorsakovHartman, will be rendered by Menuhin at the Dunedin concert.