In Bucharest a famed master and a famed pupil played together for the first time in six years. In those years the pupil had won greater fame, and the master had lived in obscurity. The pupil was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar. Enesco had almost dropped from sight after his country went Fascist.
To reunite master and pupil, the Rumanian Government flew Menuhin, his wife and two children, from Zurich in...
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