ROMANIA: WORLD RENOWNED VIOLINIST AND CONDUCTOR YEHUDI MENUHIN IN BUCHAREST WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Record ID: 646378

  • Title: ROMANIA: WORLD RENOWNED VIOLINIST AND CONDUCTOR YEHUDI MENUHIN IN BUCHAREST WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
  • Date: 7th September 1995
  • Summary: BUCHAREST'S OTOPENI AIRPORT, SEPT 7, 1995 RTV-ACCESS ALL 1.GV CROWD OF WELCOMERS AT OTOPENI AIRPORT 0.4 2.SVS YEHUDI MENUHIN AND PRINCESS MARGARETA, ELDEST AUGHTER OF ROMANIA'S EXILED EX-KING MICHAEL, WALKING HROUGH CROWD 0.10 3.SV WELCOMER OUTSIDE AIRPORT 0.13 4.SCU MENUHIN AND PRINCESS MARGARETA IN CAR, MENUHIN NSWERING REUTERS TELEVISION QUESTION IF THERE'S A BIT F HIS HEART IN ROMANIA,REPLIES: "YES, YES, I THINK T'S ENESCU AND IT'S THE GYPSIES" (ENGLISH) 0.25 5.GV HUGE PALACE BUILT BY NICOLAE CEAUSESCU, VENUE OF EORGE ENESCU INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 0.29 6.CU CONCERT LABEL ON CELLO 0.33 7.SV YEHUDI MENUHIN AT REHEARSALS WITH LONDON'S ROYAL HILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. 0.44 8.CU PULL BACK FRONT PAGE NEWSPAPER WITH PICTURES OF ENUHIN AND ENESCU. 0.52 9.SCU CONCERT GOERS WAITING IN SEATS 0.57 10.GV PAN AUDIENCE 1.03 11.GV/SCU MENUHIN MOUNTS ROSTRUM TO APPLAUSE 1.18 12.SCUS MENUHIN CONDUCTING 1.48 SOCIAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE FOR PENSIONERS-ONE OF PRINCESS MARGARETA'S CHARITIES - BUCHAREST 8 SEPTEMBER, 1995 RTV-ACCESS ALL 13.CU ADDRESS PLATE OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE 1.50 14.SV YEHUDI MENUHIN AND PRINCESS MARGARETA ARRIVING, 1.58 15.SVS MENUHIN AND PRINCESS MARGARETA TOUR CHARITY 2.22 16.CU FOODSTUFFS ON TABLE 2.25 MEDICAL CENTRE IN BRANESTI, NEAR BUCHAREST, SEPT 8, 1995 RTV-ACCESS ALL 17.SV MENUHIN AND PRINCESS MARGGARETA LEAVE CAR 2.29 16.CU SIGN READING "BRANESTI MEDICAL CENTRE, RENOVATED AND EQUIPPED BETWEEN 1991-1993 BY THE PRINCESS MARGARETA FOUNDATION" ( ROMANIAN) 2.32 17.CU/SV YEHUDI MENUHIN AND PRINCESS MARGARETA GREETED BY CHILDREN AND MEDICAL STAFF, ENTER BUILDING 2.46 18.SV SMALL CROWD OF WATCHERS 2.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 1995 13:00
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  • Location: BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
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  • Country: Romania
  • Reuters ID: LVAEQVUWJJPU441O3WOAG4SJ8AYU
  • Story Text: Concert violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin visited Romania on Thursday(Sept 7) to open an International music festival honouring his late mentor, leading Romanian composer George Enescu.

    "Part of my heart is in Romania," Mehuhin, 79, told Reuters Television at Bucharest's airport on his arrival from Prague accompanied by Princess Margareta, eldest daughter of Romania's exiled ex-King Michael.

    "It is Enescu and the gypsies," added Lord Menuhin, whose ties to the Balkan country date back to 1927, when the child prodigy studied violin with Enescu, who was then at the peak of his musical career.

    Enescu died in Paris in the 1950s, refusing to return to Romania as communists took power after World War Two and forced King Michael from the throne and into exile.

    Like Menuhin, Enescu also had several strings to his bow.

    He was a consummate violinist and conductor, and a composer whose symphonies were often inspired by Romania's rich folklore and its colourful gypsy performers.

    Following in his mentor's footsteps,Menuhin, a New Yorker by birth who adopted British citizenship in 1985, is a supporter of Romania's exiled royals and an honorary member of a charity which Princess Margareta founded in Romania after the 1989 end of Communist rule.

    Before leaving Romania on Friday (Sept 8), Menuhin accompanied Princess Margareta to several of her charities for the elderly and the sick in and around the Romanian capital Bucharest.

    Margareta has been able to freely travel to Romania, but post-communist authorities refuse to grant a visa to her father, since the ex-King was feted by hundreds of thousands of Romanians on an emotional 1992 Easter homecoming.

    Late on Thursday, Menuhin conducted London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in an Enescu and Brahms concert in a huge palace built by Romania's late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.


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