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	Yehudi Menuhin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		In 1952, Menuhin met and befriended the influential yogi B.K.S. Iyengar.
		Menuhin arranged for Iyengar to teach abroad in London, Switzerland, Paris and elsewhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin (522 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 (110 words)

	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)

	American Masters . Yehudi Menuhin \| PBS
		The child of recent immigrants, Menuhin was born in New York in 1916.
		Enesco was a primary influence on Menuhin and the two remained friends and collaborators throughout their lives.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/menuhin_y.html (612 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York, NY on April 22nd, 1916 to Russian Jewish parents who came to America via Palestine.
		Menuhin had been scheduled to perform as conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra in Berlin when he was hospitalized for pneumonia, and subsequently died from heart failure on March 12th, 1999.
		Lord Yehudi Menuhin is survived by his second wife (of 52 years) the former star British ballerina and actress Diana Gould and 4 children, sons Krov, Gerald and Jeremy, and a daughter, Zamira.
	obits.com /yehudimenuhin.html (611 words)

	Menuhin buried at school he founded
		Violinist Yehudi Menuhin was buried yesterday at the school he founded in Stoke D'Abernon, England, surrounded by the sound of music, family, friends and some of the young people whose talents he supported.
		Menuhin died March 12 at age 82 while on tour in Berlin.
		He was buried under a tree he had planted at the Yehudi Menuhin School in southern England as school musicians played works by Bach and Shubert.
	www.th-record.com /1999/03/20/menuhin2.htm (121 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin School
		Yehudi Menuhin founded this famous school in 1963 and created the ideal conditions in which musically gifted children might develop their potential to the full on stringed instruments and piano.
		In 1973 the School was accorded special status as a Centre of Excellence for the Performing Arts.
		Since 1975 pupils at the school have been funded by the Department for Education and parents only pay a contribution to the cost of their childchild's education according to their means.
	www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk (122 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)

	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
		For a school with an international reputation, the lack of a suitable performance space is often noted as a shortcoming.
		Yehudi Menuhin, one of the renowned violinists of the twentieth century, lived in the UK for the last fifty years of his life and founded the Yehudi Menuhin School for young musicians in 1963.
		The Yehudi Menuhin Concert Hall will help to fulfil Yehudi Menuhin’s dream of providing the opportunity for musically gifted children from all over the world to develop their talents and to share them with the wider community.
	www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk /index.asp?pageName=fundraising (804 words)

	Musical Times: In memoriam: Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Menuhin's vast legacy of recordings as violinist, violist and conductor spans over seventy years and represents a corpus of work unlikely to be challenged.
		Menuhin also conducted, on disc, orchestras as wideranging as the Bath Festival Orchestra, the English String Orchestra, the Warsaw Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in works as diverse as Handel's Messiah, the symphonies of Beethoven and Schubert, and Elgar's major orchestral opera.
		Menuhin was also known for his collaborations with musicians from other backgrounds, performing with, for example, the tabla master Ali Akbar Khan or jazz musicians Stephane Grappelli or John Dankworth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_199907/ai_n8866108 (1030 words)

	The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yaltah Menuhin, pianist and sister of Yehudi Menuhin, is performing in London on November 26.
		This landmark concert is a tribute to Yehudi Menuhin, and features the orchestra and soloists of the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Ashdod Chamber Orchestra of Israel.
		Yehudi died in 1999 when he was 82.
	www.themusicmagazine.com /yalta.html (340 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)

	About music school and related topics ...
		A music school or conservatory is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship, music history and music theory.
		School performance is monitored by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education.
		The King's School, in Canterbury in the south east of England, may be the oldest surviving school in the world.
	www.cdonkey.com /music-school.htm (513 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)

	Nicola Benedetti - Debut album by the young award-winning violinist, playing Szymanowsky, Chausson, and more.
		She joined the Yehudi Menuhin School 5 years later and was soon giving solo performances at major venues.
		When Yehudi Menuhin himself conducted the Bach Double Violin Concerto at the opening ceremony of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights in Paris, she was one of the soloists.
		Since leaving the Menuhin School in 2002, Nicola has studied privately with Maciej Rakowski, played at a number of prestigious events, featured on television programmes including her strongly contested BBC Young Musician of the Year which she won in 2004 with her performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No.1.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/nicola-benedetti.htm (768 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Yehudi Menuhin (April 22, 1916 - March 12, 1999) was an American-born violinist, violist, and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Great Britain.
		Careful practice and study combined with meditation and yoga helped him overcome many of these problems, and he continued to perform to an advanced age, becoming known for profound interpretations of an austere quality.
		In 1962 he established the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey.
	usapedia.com /y/yehudi-menuhin.html (151 words)

	The Yehudi Menuhin School @ UK Schools Guide 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Yehudi Menuhin School, Stoke d’Abernon, Cobham, Surrey KT11 3QQ
		Founded in 1963 by Yehudi Menuhin, with the help of his colleague and friend Marcel Gazelle, to provide the ideal conditions in which the musically gifted might develop their potential to the full.
		Discipline As the school is a small family, the aim is to keep sanctions to a minimum (extra work on a Saturday afternoon, gating or rustication with expulsion as the final resort for a serious offence like drugs or stealing).
	www.schoolsguidebook.co.uk /schools/The_Yehudi_Menuhin_School.html (685 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| Yehudi Menuhin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lord Menuhin's contract with EMI, at nearly 70 years in duration, is the longest in the history of the music industry.
		Menuhin's range was unique, including all of the main classical works for violin as well as collaborations with Stéphane Grappelli and Ravi Shankar.
		He was an honorary doctor of twenty universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and the University of St. Andrews, was a Freeman of the Cities of Edinburgh, Bath, Reims and Warsaw and was the holder of the Gold Medals of the Cities of Paris, New York and Jerusalem.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/menb.html (479 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)

	Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Menuhin grew up in San Francisco, where he studied violin from age four and where his performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at age seven caused a sensation.
		During World War II Menuhin performed some 500 concerts for Allied troops, and in 1945 he and composer Benjamin Britten went to Germany to perform a series of concerts, including several concerts given at Bergen-Belsen for recently liberated inmates of that concentration camp.
		Menuhin gained note for introducing into his concerts rarely performed and new music, such as that by composer Béla Bartók.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9052059 (401 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)

	Menuhin, Yehudi -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 /eb/article-9342696?tocId=9342696 (513 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)

	Jacqueline Cole - UK Pianist
		JACQUELINE COLE was born in Warwickshire in 1958 and ten years later became a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with Marcel Gazelle, Yaltah Menuhin, Marcel Ciampi and Barbara Kerslake and participated in master classes given by Nadia Boulanger and Vlado Perlemuter.
		Between 1970 and 1975 she toured with the Menuhin School as a soloist as well as an accompanist in the U.K., Holland, Switzerland and the United States.
		In 1978 she obtained the Associate of Guildhall School of Music Performer's Diploma while studying with James Gibb and also received a grant from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, which enabled her to stay for an extra year at the Guildhall studying piano with Norman Beedie and composition with Patrick Standford.
	musicgallery.co.uk /start/keyboards/pianists/cole(jacqueline).html (895 words)

	Page Title
		Jonathan began playing the violin when he was seven, and by the age of eight he had already become accepted as a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
		Whilst at the Menuhin School Jonathan studied the violin with Margaret Norris, Felix Andrievski, Alberto Lysy and Yehudi Menuhin.
		In 1991 Jonathan was invited by Sir Yehudi Menuhin as a guest of the then West German Government to perform with him at his 75th birthday celebrations at a televised concert in Bonn.
	freespace.virgin.net /js.rees/page8.html (418 words)

	Yehudi Menuhin School Free Concert
		Free Concerts given by pupils from Yehudi Menuhin School.
		Yehudi Menuhin School is once again pleased to offer free concerts to schools.
		There was an overwhelming response from schools last time this was offered and it is hoped this time will be the same.
	www.surreycc.gov.uk /education/sbdb.nsf/5f38389d3ddc4f2d80256a94002faf31/2b9074b72762e12780256c670050f0c3 (107 words)

	Carolina Morning News on the Web \| Leisure Time - Young violinist to perform Sunday 07/14/00
		Burke has been accepted into the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School near London and the concert of "Music from the Baroque to the Tango," accompanied by piano and classical guitar will help to raise the $70,000 needed for his first two years at the school.
		He was one of six violin students chosen by the Menuhin School from hundreds of applicants from all over the world.
		Selection to the 50-student school is "by stringent audition which seeks to assess musical ability and identify outstanding potential," and required him to spend three days at the school during spring break.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/071400/LEISburke.shtml (692 words)

	Private School - Corelli School of the Performing Arts - Music, Dance, Drama, Visual Arts. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Corelli School features a highly qualified staff and comprehensive timetable, dedicated to the achievement of musical and academic excellence.
		Through the joy of making music, this concept has been proven in Europe with: the Purcell School (of which Corelli principal David Selfe is a graduate) and the Yehudi Menuhin School, London, as specific examples.
		The purpose is to create an environment where home-grown talent is recognised and fulfilled through in-depth musical study, (running in conjunction with the standard curriculum), enabling graduating musicians to be of an international standard and therefore to embark on a professional career if desired.
	www.corelli.school.nz (557 words)

	Gramophone - Features - The world's best classical music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yehudi Menuhin had more music in his little finger than most of us can find in our entire beings but, in saying that, I’m referring emphatically to the mature Menuhin, not the chubby-faced prodigy who seemed to be everywhere in the 1930s.
		Much as it irritates me to have the teenage Menuhin constantly cited as a violinistic paragon, I console myself that it must have irked the man himself even more.
		Yehudi menuhin - (The) Violin of the Century
	www.gramophone.co.uk /reputations_detail.asp?id=473 (190 words)

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