Today, Yehudi, you have once again proved to me there is a god in heaven. In 1932, the 16-year-old Menuhin became the first to record Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the composer conducting ...

Yehudi and Nola Menuhin visited her nearly every day; he tended to the fire, and she made tea. He was even more of a solace as Cather experienced loss: the deaths of her brothers and of her old ...

Only a little while before the illness that was to end his career, Sid Edward Elgar, British composer, wrote Yehudi Menuhin ... they are quite well, however, and send their love to you….

Julia Boyd records: " On 12 April 1929 it [the Semperoper] cancelled its advertised programme to make way for a performance by the twelve-year-old Yehudi Menuhin. That night he played the Bach ...

But only one notable Westerner has ever performed with him: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 51, longtime apostle of Indian culture and faithful practitioner of yoga. The two met in India in 1952 ...

Menuhin’s plaque will commemorate the six-storey house in Belgravia, London, where the American-born musician lived, worked and entertained for the last 16 years of his life until 1999.

Last week Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, back from a European tour, made a strong appeal for the Nazi Staatsrat, made even stronger by the fact that Menuhin is Jewish. He said: “If there is one ...

Also being honoured are suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Sophia Duleep Singh. Yehudi Menuhin’s plaque will commemorate the six-storey house in Belgravia, London, where he lived ...