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	Legendary Violinists. Yehudi Menuhin
		Menuhin, Yehudi, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon, celebrated American-born English violinist, conductor, and humanitarian, brother of Hephzibah Menuhin; b.
		On Nov. 25, 1927, Menuhin was soloist in the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Fritz Busch and the N.Y. Symphony Orchestra, garnering extraordinary acclaim from the public and critics alike.
		Menuhin came to Furtwängler's defense and, after the conductor was exonerated, the two performed and recorded together in spite of the furor his defense had engendered.
	www.thirteen.org /publicarts/violin/menuhin.html (760 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin (Conductor, Violin) - Short Biography
		The American violinist and conductor, Yehudi Menuhin, had one of the longest and most distinguished careers of any violinist of the twentieth century.
		Menuhin was born in New York of Russian-Jewish parents, recent immigrants to America.
		As a young man Yehudi Menuhin went to Paris to study under violinist and composer George Enesco.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Menuhin-Yehudi.htm (622 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England.
		It was founded in 1963 by the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
		It educates about 60 boys and girls between the ages of 8–18, who all play at least one musical instrument (stringed instrument or piano) to an exceptionally high level.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin_School (120 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916—March 12, 1999) was an American-born violinist, violist, and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom.
		Yehudi Menuhin performed for allied soldiers during World War II, and went with the composer Benjamin Britten to perform for the inmates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, after its liberation in April 1945.
		Menuhin credited the German-Jewish philosopher Constantin Brunner with providing him with "a theoretical framework within which I could fit the events and experiences of life" (Conversations with Menuhin: 32-34).
	www.theviolinsite.com /violinists/yehudi_menuhin.html (443 words)

	Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Menuhin began studying the violin aged four, first with Sigmund Anker and then with Louis Persinger (1887–1966).
		At the age of seven he played the Mendelssohn violin concerto publicly in San Francisco, then went to Europe for further study with Adolf Busch and Enescu.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Menuhin,+Yehudi,+Baron+Menuhin (342 words)

	CNN - Music world mourns death of violinist Yehudi Menuhin - March 12, 1999
		LONDON (AP) -- Violinist Yehudi Menuhin has died after a 75-year career devoted to helping young musicians and promoting his belief that music is an international language.
		Menuhin died Friday in a hospital in Berlin, where he was to have conducted the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra before he was taken ill. He was 82.
		Menuhin was married twice, first to Nola Nicholas, daughter of an Australian industrialist in 1938.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9903/12/menuhin.obit.02 (699 words)

	American Masters . Yehudi Menuhin \| PBS
		The child of recent immigrants, Menuhin was born in New York in 1916.
		He was an outspoken supporter of dozens of causes for social justice, while also longing for a solitary life where he could ignore the concerns of society and attend only to the history of music and his role within it.
		As a performer, a conductor, a teacher, and a spokesperson, he spent his seventies and eighties as one of the most active musicians in the world.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/menuhin_y.html (612 words)

	Menuhin, Yehudi on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MENUHIN, YEHUDI [Menuhin, Yehudi], 1916-99, British violinist and conductor, b.
		Yehudi MENUHIN and the Japanese violinist Ruriko TSUKAHARA.
		Yehudi MENUHIN and the Chinese violinist TANG YUN.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Menuhin.asp (988 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Yehudi Menuhin
		Yehudi Menuhin's first solo red-letter day was November 25, 1927, when, at the age of 11, he electrified Carnegie Hall with his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
		Menuhin's dedication to the support of the next generation of musicians prompted him to establish several schools, one in Surrey, England, another in Gstaad, Switzerland.
		Menuhin was noted for his remarkable knowledge of all musical disciplines, having recorded jazz favorites with Stephane Grappelli and Indian ragas with Ravi Shankar, to name a few.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3761&source_type=A (823 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Yehudi Menuhin, 1916-1999
		Menuhin was very warm to me when I auditioned for him at 15, and he invited me to join his school.
		Menuhin's decline came in his fourth decade, when most concert violinists reach the height of their powers.
		And if Menuhin the man is to be judged by his good works, his reputation for nobility will enjoy what his early artistic genius did not: immortality.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/feature/1999/03/16feature.html (892 words)

	CBC Arts: Menuhin foundation ousts late violinist's son
		The son of Yehudi Menuhin has been ousted as head of the German branch of the music foundation set up by the violinist and humanist.
		Yehudi Menuhin was a well-respected Jewish violinist who performed for allied soldiers and for inmates of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
		"The Yehudi Menuhin Foundation distances itself completely from the content of the comments made by Gerard Menuhin, and sharply condemns the naming of our foundation and its activities in a media outlet that the [German] Interior Ministry has said 'must be considered part of the extreme-right,"' the foundation said in a statement.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/11/14/Arts/menuhin_051114.html?ref=rss (351 words)

	Menuhin Yehudi
		When the bow touched the strings, it was evident that an exceptional musical intelligence and sensibility were behind the performance." When young Menuhin followed that dazzling success with a solo recital at Carnegie Hall a few weeks later, a police detail was called out to keep the overflowing crowd under control.
		Before Yehudi was a year old, the family moved to San Francisco, where his father eventually became superintendent of the Jewish Education Society and young Menuhin's became a fledgling star of the musical world.
		Menuhin took a hiatus from the concert stage to learn as much as he could about the fundamentals of the instrument he had been playing instinctively.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /menuhin_yehudi.html (839 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1943, during a lull in the London bombings, Yehudi Menuhin, with his great friend the film star Leslie Howard visited Queensbury Way, where the Headquarters of the Free French Air Force were currently occupying the premises of a school.
		To the delight of General Valin and all those present, Yehudi Menuhin brought out his violin and treated the assembly to one of his inimitable interpretations of classical works.
		Yehudi Menuhin was only 26 at the time of this impromptu concert but he had already made his mark in the world of music.
	www.rblfrance.org /stories/yehudi_menuhin.htm (285 words)

	Los Gatos Weekly-Times \| Yehudi Menuhin: The Los Gatos Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yehudi Menuhin, who died Friday in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 82, was profoundly influenced by his early years in Los Gatos.
		Menuhin's carefree days ended with a recital in October 1937 in San Francisco, after which career, marriage, fatherhood and World War II occupied his thoughts.
		While Menuhin inherited his deep love of the land from his father, it is a safe bet that his mother contributed to his genial nature.
	www.svcn.com /archives/lgwt/03.17.99/cover1-9911.html (1071 words)

	Special Report
		Undoubtedly Moshe Menuhin, with whom I corresponded over a 12-year period until his death in 1983, would be pleased to know that his son, the famed violinist, has the same fortitude in speaking out against Zionism.
		Diana Menuhin said after it became known that Yehudi Menuhin felt there were two sides to the Middle East conflict, and especially after he gave a concert to aid Palestinian orphans, that his bookings dropped dramatically.
		Yehudi Menuhin was born in 1916 of Russian-Jewish parents who had emigrated separately by way of Palestine.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0796/9607018.htm (851 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin Memorial
		Yehudi had died at 82 in March, but his memorial wasn't held until June.
		Although Yehudi, my aunt Hephzibah and mom Yaltah came out of the west in the early part of this century, it probably was fitting that Yehudi was memorialized in this, the last year of the century and millennium, at Westminster Abbey.
		Yehudi Menuhin died Friday March 12, 1999 in Berlin while on tour with the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra.
	www.ffaire.com /viewersbylines/menuhinmemorial.html (1390 words)

	BBC - Music / Profiles - Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Menuhin was one of the 20th century's great violinists.
		Menuhin's greatest pride was the founding of the music school in Stoke D'Abernon that bears his name.
		Menuhin studied with Sigmund Anker and Louis Persinger in the USA before moving to Europe to study with Adolf Busch and finally George Enesco, whom he idolised
	www.bbc.co.uk /aboutmusic/profiles/menuhin.shtml (450 words)

	Brian's Education Blog • Prog, trad and choice in the early education of Yehudi Menuhin
		There then follows a fascinating description of what Menuhin learned, not from Anker exactly, but as a result of the way Anker taught, combined as it was with Menuhin's determination to make sense of it all.
		It's a fascinating story, which traditionalists and progressives would no doubt both regard as proof positive of their own wisdom and of the folly of their adversaries, that is, if such people as "traditionalists" and "progressives" actually exist, which I choose to doubt.
		Menuhin goes to a circus (prog choice) and to a classical concert (trad choice) and decides for himself (prog choice) to be a violinist.
	www.brianmicklethwait.com /education/archives/000788.htm (1892 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Menuhin: A musical genius
		Yehudi Menuhin, who has died aged 82, was one of the greatest musical geniuses of the last 100 years.
		It was, Yehudi Menuhin freely admitted, a protected childhood.
		The Second World War saw Menuhin playing to troops throughout the world and in 1945 he performed for the survivors of the newly-liberated Belsen concentration camp.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_291000/291306.stm (442 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 12 \| 1999: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin dies
		Menuhin was born in New York of Russian Jewish parents.
		Yehudi Menuhin was one of the century's greatest violinists
		As well as campaigning for human rights, Menuhin was a keen yoga practitioner and health food enthusiast, warning against the dangers of white rice, white bread and red meat.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_2540000/2540427.stm (557 words)

	UPNE \| Yehudi Menuhin
		One of the best-loved classical musicians of the twentieth century, Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) was born in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants.
		In addition to his enduring career as a performer and conductor, Menuhin was a tireless champion of humanitarian causes, ran the Bath Festival, founded a renowned music school, and served as cultural ambassador to the United Nations.
		While the familiar image of Menuhin is that of a saintly, philosophizing guru, this compelling biography reveals that he was also a complex individualist who often sparked controversy.
	www.upne.com /1-55553-465-1.html (327 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Riddle of Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...At first, Menuhin thought the unsteadiness in his bow arm was the result of muscular tension-hence * By 1928, Menuhin was already earning a minimum of $3,500 a concert-about $34,000 today-plus 20 percent of receipts in excess of the guarantee...
		...Yehudi Menuhin's parents were exceptional only in their lifelong insistence that they had never exploited their son...
		...Menuhin on CD: A Select Discography YEHUDI MENUHIN'S early recordings are now widely available for the first time since their original appearance on 78's...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V111I6P54-1.htm (3334 words)

	Bloghead: Yehudi Menuhin's son - antisemitic, neo-Nazi......
		This astonishing account in the London 'Times' relates that the son of the late, world-famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin has been force to resign from a foundation set up by his late father.
		Gerard Menuhin, 57, caused uproar by suggesting that Germany was being flmailed by an international Jewish conspiracy preying on the country’s war guilt.
		Yehudi Menuhin (later Lord Menuhin) was quite a mild and reasonable character.
	bloghd.blogspot.com /2005/11/yehudi-menuhins-son-antisemitic-neo.html (385 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Unfinished Journey by Yehudi Menuhin
		Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) made his extraordinary debut at the age of seven, playing with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
		Menuhin was equally recognized for his committed humanitarianism, exemplified by the championship of young musicians and his work for international understanding.
		Yehudi Menuhin first published his autobiography in 1976 then updated it in 1996 when it was reissued.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780712668095 (168 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ...
		June 9, 2001, London, Eng.), was a pianist and was the younger sister of acclaimed violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
		At age seven, the U.S.-born violinist Yehudi Menuhin dazzled the audience of the San Francisco Orchestra with his performance of Felix Mendelssohn's violin concerto.
		Menuhin went on to become one of the 20th century's leading violin virtuosos.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9371874 (898 words)

	Menuhin, Yehudi on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Menuhin, an extraordinary prodigy, began playing the violin at four.
		Menuhin introduced little-known works and promoted Eastern music in lectures and performances, such as his collaboration with Ravi Shankar, East Meets West.
		Violinist and director Yehudi Menuhin, 80, at his home in Chester Square, London, Feb. 1997.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/menuhin.asp (988 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin, an incredible man of music
		The death of Lord Menuhin in a Berlin hospital yesterday after a brief illness closes a unique career in music.
		Menuhin: 'The most blessed and privileged of all callings is that of the musician, who acts as interpreter, inspirer, teacher, healer, consoler, and, above all, as a humble servant.
		Isaac Stern said that 'Yehudi Menuhin was a major figure in this century: an extraordinary musician, and a great humanitarian'.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/1999/03/menuhin.htm (623 words)

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