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Because he is 15 and has shown himself to be a true artist, Yehudi Menuhin will give an added number of recitals this season—in Montreal next, then Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, Akron, Charlottesville (Va.), Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Houston. In April he will play in California where he plans to buy a ranch. Already he has been offered 350 engagements for next season. But in accordance with the Menuhin program he must spend the great part of the year in retirement. He will be allowed to accept 24 of his offers.
* Painted by Mark Jnffe from a photograph by David Berns.
† Because Brahms' Concerto is so lacking in fireworks it had a cool reception at its premiere in Leipzig in 1879. Another reason, according to Critic Olin Downes (Symphonic Broadcasts, Dial, $2.50): While Brahms was conducting the audience was diverted by a widening rift between his waistcoat & trousers. Big, bearlike Brahms had forgotten to fasten his suspenders. —Critic William James Henderson who spe cializes on singing, emphasized this point in the New York Sun last week. Said he: "There are today about 250.000 voice students in the U. S. Of that number there may be a hundred who will ever be able to make more than a bare living from their art, and probably not more than a score who will become generally known. . . . There should be the most rigid examinations and every one who does not conclusively demonstrate the possession of a sound talent should be elimi nated and told to go home and learn some other business. .