From the Times’s full-page obit of Zamira Menuhin:
Speaking of how Yehudi Menuhin’s desire to change the world never ended, she told how he was patron of more than 200 charities. “He just couldn’t say no,” she said. “He wanted everything, and he wanted it immediately. He was like a little boy somehow, but much of what he wanted was impossible.”
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The Russian violinist Rosa Fain, a pupil and later stage partner of David Oistrakh, has died in Dusseldorf, where she was Professor at the School of Music for many years. Like her teacher, she was […]
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%20Richard%20Marsham.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "A carefully curated programme rather than a disc to dip into: Christopher Gray on his first disc with the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge")
Christopher Gray (Photo: Richard Marsham) Christopher Gray has been director of music at St John’s College, Cambridge since 2023. He was formerly director of music at Truro Cathedral and took over at St John’s from […]
