Yehudi Menuhin
Born | April 22, 1916 |
Hometown | New York City, New York, United States of America |
Spouse | Diana Gould (m 1947 - 1999) |
Children | Gerard Menuhin , Jeremy Menuhin , Krov Nicholas Menuhin , Zamira Menuhin |
Parents | Marutha Sher |
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Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and activist Claudia Jones to receive blue plaques
- Also being honoured are suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Sophia Duleep Singh.
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Bath Festival Orchestra/Manning review – watery theme fails to float relaunched ensemble
Bath Festival Orchestra/Manning review – watery theme fails to float relaunched ensemble. Roman Baths, BathWorks by Takemitsu, Daniel Temkin, Joey Roukens and Grace Williams featured in a disappointing maritime-themed programme
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Nicola Benedetti — Elgar Violin Concerto review: Brings engaging personality and formidable technique
Tackling Elgar’s Violin Concerto, a mighty peak of the repertoire, takes courage.Rival versions include recordings by Nigel Kennedy and the youthful Yehudi Menuhin. But Nicola Benedetti is undaunted and brings her own engaging personality, as well as a formidable technique, to bear in a compelling account.
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Could a 12-year-old Australian-Chinese violinist be the next child prodigy?
Could a 12-year-old Australian-Chinese violinist be the next child prodigy?Decca Classics’ youngest-ever signing, Christian Li, has been hailed a ‘superstar’ who is already up there with the greats
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Nigel Kennedy says record company 'jobsworths' drove him to withdraw from classical music
One of the world’s finest virtuoso violinists has hit out at record company executives who stifle creativity. Nigel Kennedy has revealed that “mental midgets” and “ignorant” jobsworths with little understanding of what it takes to play an instrument drove him to withdraw from the classical world for four years. He told the Sunday Telegraph that in the early 2000s, he found himself unable to work with EMI executives who were more interested in repeating previous successes than allowing artists th
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Sukanya review: The perfect tribute to mark Ravi Shankar's centenary year
When sitar player and Indian musical icon Ravi Shankar died in 2012 aged 92, he left behind an unfinished opera called Sukanya. Combining a mythological tale from the Mahabharata with Western symphony orchestra and Indian musicians, it concluded a series of pieces bringing West and East together, including a 1967 recording with Yehudi Menuhin.The piece opens with a sitar solo. In the 2017 premiere the player was Anoushka Shankar, but last night Parimal Sadaphal, a disciple of Shankar, was the ve
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Isabelle Faust and Friends review, Wigmore Hall: Spirited performance delivered under violinist’s leadership
Bartok composed his Sonata for Solo Violin at the end of his life and to a commission from Yehudi Menuhin, and lived just long enough to hear the premiere. Both men had initially feared its complex double-stoppings would be unplayable, but the great British violinist found a way. An implicit homage to Bach, it’s the pinnacle of 20th-century fiddle virtuosity which players approach with caution: at the Wigmore the latest entrant into the lists is the German violinist Isabelle Faust.She may be one
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East Meets West, LSO St Luke’s, London, review: Lopsided fusion of European and Chinese works
Ever since Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar made their celebrated boundary-crossing LP West Meets East, that phrase – or the inversion of it – has come to stand for musical fusions. So the collaboration between the LSO Strings and the Silk String Quartet, which flies the same flag, is treading familiar ground.
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Violinist Charlie Siem explains how he 'accidentally' became a model
Virtuoso violinist Charlie Siem today told how he became a model “by accident” after being asked to perform by photographer Mario Testino. Eton and Cambridge-educated Siem, son of Norwegian billionaire Kristian Siem, began learning the instrument aged three and now performs at top venues around the world, from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, on a violin played by Yehudi Menuhin.
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Schools music boost urged as Britons fail to make Menuhin violin finals
The failure of budding British violinists to qualify for one of the world’s most prestigious music competitions has led to calls for a music revolution in schools. The Menuhin Competition, founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1983, is known as the “Olympics of the violin”, with many contestants going on to international recognition. Participants and prizewinners include the soloist Tasmin Little and Japan’s Daishin Kashimoto, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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