Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hearing Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in 1929 when the great violinist was plain Yehudi, 13, Albert Einstein remarked "the day of ...

Don’t spend another Friday evening in front of the TV, instead take a trip to The Menuhin Hall in Cobham for a joyful and uplifting evening of gorgeous classical melodies beautifully played by the ...

The sterling British violinist Daniel Hope was 6 months old when he arrived in Europe in 1973 from his native South Africa, where his father, novelist and antiapartheid activist Christopher Hope, had ...

Yehudi Menuhin died at the age of 82 in 1999. At the time it seemed somehow symbolic, coming right at the end of the 20th century in which he'd been a superstar violinist, conductor, philanthropist ...

Menuhin had been widely hailed as a boy genius in the press and made his first recording a year earlier. And Menuhin had no bigger fan than my mother. My grandfather and Menuhin’s father were from the ...

It was 100 years ago that the violinist Yehudi Menuhin was born, and not too many years afterward that he began to transform the musical world — for the better, and for good. Menuhin was only 7 when ...

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the great ...

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Yehudi Menuhin was one of the greatest violinists the world has ever seen. Everyone knows that. While he was still in short trousers, he astonished allcomers with his gifts, which were more ...

April 22 marks the centenary of violinist Yehudi Menuhin (born Yehudi Mnuchin in New York). After 12-year-old Yehudi Menuhin played three concertos in Berlin, Albert Einstein famously exclaimed: “Now ...