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    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing...
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    The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. The...
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  • The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists (or simply the Menuhin Competition) is an international music competition for violinists...
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  • one-world government". Menuhin argues that "the world owes Adolf Hitler an apology". He is the son of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould...
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    campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a linguist and writer, co-authoring...
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  • Look up Yehudi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name: Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)...
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  • singer, who is best remembered as the second wife of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. As a dancer, however, she was described by Anna Pavlova as the only...
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    subsequently invited several Jewish and anti-fascist artists (such as Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Schnabel, and Pablo Casals) to perform as soloists in his 1933/34...
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    Shankar and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Exhibition in Paris, where he introduced him to the...
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    Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since then...
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  • Linda Menuhin (born 1950), Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983), teacher and author, father of Yehudi, Hephzibah...
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    director of AIR Delhi, introduced the Western violinist Yehudi Menuhin to Shankar during Menuhin's first visit to India in 1952. Shankar had performed as...
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    violinist. She is the first prize winner in the Junior division of the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists alongside Christian Li...
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  • age of ten, he became the youngest to win the Junior Category of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists. Christian Li was born...
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  • Who's Yehoodi? (category Yehudi Menuhin)
    The catchphrase "Who's Yehoodi?" (or "Who's Yehudi?") originated when Jewish violinist Yehudi Menuhin was a guest on the popular radio program The Pepsodent...
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    musicians under 30. The panel, chaired by Yehudi Menuhin, unanimously awarded du Pré the prize, and Menuhin subsequently invited her to play trios with...
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  • was also the first prize winner in the junior division of the 2012 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Beijing, China. In...
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    Solomon began playing the violin at the age of two. At four she met Yehudi Menuhin and was taken to see the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. For the...
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  • Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin (born 2 November 1951) is a composer and pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin was born in San Francisco...
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    be joined by the classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, with the two musicians performing a duet. Although Menuhin had no jazz training and a distinctly...
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  • violinist popular at the time and well known for his collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin, both violinists were recording in a downstairs studio at Abbey Road...
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    history The Menuhin Saga. Moshe Menuhin was the father of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin and pianists Hephzibah Menuhin and Yaltah Menuhin. The decadence...
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  • and novelty song "Who's Yehudi?" or "Who's Yehoodi?". The catchphrase is said to have originated when violinist Yehudi Menuhin was a guest on the popular...
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  • pianist who played classical and romantic music. He performed with Yehudi Menuhin for several years, toured internationally for decades with the Alma...
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    happening in Santander, Spain, every three years. Created in 1990, the Yehudi Menuhin Prize, is an award given by the Reina Sofía School of Music to recognize...
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  • British Library Sounds website. The Music at the Yehudi Menuhin website (menuhin.org). Yehudi Menuhin – George Enescu at Muziekweb website Bach: Concerto...
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    musically gifted children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, she descended from a distinguished rabbinical...
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  • libraries of Sir Henry Wood and Otto Klemperer. Soon after violinist Yehudi Menuhin's death, the Royal Academy of Music acquired his personal archive, which...
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  • March 1977) is a British classical pianist and director of music at the Yehudi Menuhin School. He was winner of the London International Piano Competition...
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  • Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Piotr Anderszewski, Yehudi Menuhin, Francesco Libetta, Grigory Sokolov, Maurizio Pollini and David Fray...
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