Concert Magic
Cast & Crew
Paul Gordon
Yehudi Menuhin
Jakob Gimpel
Eula Beal
Adolph Baller
Marguerite Campbell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In this concert film, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, accompanied by pianist Adolph Baller and the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, performs music by Beethoven, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Brahms, Locatelli and Bazzini. Contralto Eula Beal sings a Bach aria, with violin obbligato by Menuhin and orchestral accompaniment. As a soloist, Beal, accompanied by pianist Marguerite Campbell, sings selections from Gounod, Schubert and Tschaikowsky. Pianist Jakob Gimpel performs works by Mendelssohn and Chopin.
Director
Paul Gordon
Cast
Yehudi Menuhin
Jakob Gimpel
Eula Beal
Adolph Baller
Marguerite Campbell
Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati
Crew
Johann Sebastian Bach
Douglas Bagier
Antonio Bazzini
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Frédéric Chopin
Dr. Victor Clement
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Paul Gordon
Charles François Gounod
Paul Ivano
Pietro Locatelli
Felix Mendelssohn
George Moskov
Pablo Sarasate
Franz Schubert
Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky
Henryk Wieniawski
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to a June 1948 New York Times news item, this film was recorded at Republic Studios, but shot to playback at the Chaplin Studios. The news item also stated that the film had been edited in two versions, a conventional one for theaters, and a "close-up" version for possible television transmission. Producer Paul Gordon also disclosed that a sequence of Yehudi Menuhin playing Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto had also been made, but not edited. It has not been possible to determine which of Chopin's two Etudes in F Major Jakob Gimpel performed.
