Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; ;

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

In 1944, he was also commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin to write a Sonata for Solo Violin.

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* Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous violinist

Yehudi Menuhin, on the other hand, suggested that this might have been the result of his reliance on the guitar ( in lieu of the piano ) as an aid in composition.

* Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis, The Music of man, Methuen, 1979.

* March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist ( b. 1916 )

* April 22 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist ( d. 1999 )

In 1983 he founded the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Folkestone, Kent.

In 2009 EMI released a 51-CD retrospective of Menuhin's recording career, titled Yehudi Menuhin: The Great EMI Recordings.

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and author Paulo Coelho captured at the Annual Meeting 1999 of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland

Yehudi Menuhin was married twice.

Soon after his death, the Royal Academy of Music acquired the Yehudi Menuhin Archive, one of the most comprehensive collections ever assembled by an individual musician.

* In 1965, while he was still an American citizen, Menuhin was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which entitled him to use the postnominal letters KBE, but not to style himself Sir Yehudi.

After Menuhin gained British citizenship in 1985, his knighthood was upgraded to a substantive one, and he became Sir Yehudi Menuhin KBE.

* In the European Parliament in Brussels, the room in which concerts and performances are held is called the " Yehudi Menuhin Space ".

Yehudi Menuhin was also ' meant ' to appear on The Morecambe and Wise Show but could not do so as he was ' opening at the Argyl Theatre, Birkenhead in Old King Cole.

* The Official website for Yehudi Menuhin

* Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists

* Text and pictures from Yehudi Menuhin by french film director Bruno Monsaingeon

* Yehudi Menuhin Center Saanen / Gstaad Schweiz

* International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation

* Menuhin, Yehudi and William Primrose ( 1976 ) Violin and viola.

That recording has been remastered for compact disc ; the EMI CD couples it with Elgar's Violin Concerto conducted by the composer with Yehudi Menuhin as the soloist.

Previn is initially enthusiastic as a guest, but he is perplexed by the news that he will not, after all, be conducting Yehudi Menuhin in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, but Edvard Grieg's A minor Piano Concerto with Eric as piano soloist:

* Boris Schwarz: Great Masters of the Violin ; forward by Yehudi Menuhin.

Nominees for the 9th Grammy Awards ( 1967 ) included Julian Bream for Baroque Guitar, pianist John Browning for Prokofiev: Concert No. 1 in D Flat Major for Piano ; Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Piano ( conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Boston Symphony Orchestra ), pianist Raymond Lewenthal for Operatic Liszt, violinist Yehudi Menuhin for Elgar: Concerto for Violin, Ivan Moravec for Chopin: Nocturnes, Arthur Rubinstein for Rubinstein and Chopin ( featuring Frédéric Chopin's Bolero, Tarantelle, Fantaisie in F minor and Trois nouvelles études ), violinist Isaac Stern for Dvořák: Concerto in A Minor for Violin ( conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra ), and Australian classical guitarist John Williams for Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra / Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto in D Major for Guitar ( conducted by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra ).

Gaisberg ( l ) with Edward Elgar | Sir Edward Elgar and Yehudi Menuhin outside the EMI studios after the recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto ( Elgar ) | Violin Concerto in 1932.

Video – Yehudi Menuhin – The Violin of the Century, EMI

This work, " rediscovered " in 1951 by Yehudi Menuhin, is also known as the Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor, and as Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto No. 1 ( the E minor concerto alternately known as Violin Concerto No. 2 ).

1959 was a year in which Ferras rose to real prominence: he began his career in the United States by playing Brahms's concerto under Charles Munch ; recorded Bach's Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin ; played at the Prades Festival with Pablo Casals and Wilhelm Kempff ; and premiered Gyula Bando's Violin Concerto.

* Violin sonata in A ( championed by Yehudi Menuhin ) written 1918 – 9, pub.

Example: the sons of Judah are called Yehudi ( which is translated into Latin as Judaeus and into English as Jew.

The question of what determines Jewish identity in the State of Israel was given new impetus when, in the 1950s, David Ben-Gurion requested opinions on mihu Yehudi (" who is a Jew ") from Jewish religious authorities and intellectuals worldwide in order to settle citizenship questions.

The name Yehudi means ' Jew ' in Hebrew.

Countless celebrities have graced its stage, including Boris Christoff, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, John Neville, Magda Olivero, Michael Ponti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Donald Wolfit.

Diana Gould later became the second wife of Yehudi Menuhin.

This theory was accepted by the president of the Elgar Society, Yehudi Menuhin.

The violinist Yehudi Menuhim lived there as a boy ; the actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland ( sisters ) were graduates of Los Gatos High School, John Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath there, and Beat hero Neal Cassady lived there in the 1950s.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and rock artist George Harrison of The Beatles.