The Night Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin Finally Met | Parkinson on BBC

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Stephane Grappelli has been playing the same tune for forty-five years. It still sounds different every time. Yehudi Menuhin heard him for the first time on a record ten years ago and has been waiting for this meeting ever since. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, the two men talk about where the violin has taken each of them. Grappelli traces his path through a childhood dancing school run by Isadora Duncan, who was usually found in bed, and the moment he heard jazz for the first time and understood what he wanted to do with his life. Menuhin talks about throwing his first violin on the floor at the age of three because it was made of metal and therefore not a real violin, about his first public concert at six, and about the connection between the Russian Jewish experience and the instrument that seems to have been its natural expression. Together they discuss why the violin seems to belong equally to the gypsy and to the jazz musician, and what those two traditions have i

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