Youra guller biography of michael
Youra, looking tired and drawn, was taking tea, and Michael appeared a little dazed by her company....
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Youra Guller
Encounters with a Legend
Peter Feuchtwanger recalls a great artist and a cherished friend
Youra Guller: a great spiritual forceI first heard Youra Guller in 1959, at a bitterly disappointing recital in the Wigmore Hall.
Since then, I'd forgotten all about her, though somewhere at the back of my mind I recalled that one of her short encores had afforded a brief glimpse of past glories (in her younger days she had been something of a legend). Six years later, I attended a recital by Robert Majek, who had studied with her.
Afterwards I joined a small party of friends for an after-concert dinner, when who should enter the restaurant but Youra Guller herself, making a characteristically regal entrance, instantly exerting her mysterious magnetism on all those present.
She joined us, and I found myself sitting opposite her, and we soon discovered that we had mutual friends. As the evening wore on I became increasingly intrigued by her curious detachment and her evide