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.

Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides.

* 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 William Primrose, Violin and viola, MacDonald and Jane's, 1976.

* 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 ".

* 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

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.

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

Notable artistes included Pablo Casals, John McCormack, Elisabeth Schumann, Yehudi Menuhin ( his first appearance was at the age of 15 ), Solomon, Moiseiwitsch, and Maggie Teyte.

At one of the orchestra's early concerts, in November 1932, the sixteen-year old Yehudi Menuhin played a programme of violin concertos ; those by Bach and Mozart were conducted by Beecham, and Elgar's Concerto in B minor was conducted by the composer.

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

Boulanger taught in the US and England, working with music academies including the Juilliard School, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Longy School, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, but her principal base for most of her life was her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92.

Congresswoman Abzug was married to Martin Abzug, whom she met on a bus in Miami on the way to a concert by Yehudi Menuhin, from 1944 until his death in 1986.

The young Kam appeared in an episode of the popular British television programme Blue Peter when she was eight, playing Paganini's Caprice No. 5 in a segment featuring students from the Yehudi Menuhin School.

The Lord Wilton Guarneri del Gesù violin made in 1742 was owned by Yehudi Menuhin.

Described by Cary as " friendly, undemanding music " which nevertheless he was nervous about performing, since the audience was composed of VIPs and included Yehudi Menuhin.

In 1948 Ferras won First Prize at the international Scheveningen Festival ; Yehudi Menuhin was among the judges.

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.

The Soil was acquired by Yehudi Menuhin in 1950, and in 1986 by Itzhak Perlman who with this instrument recorded the Cinema Serenade with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1997.

" Also in Esther 2: 5-6, we find that the name " Jew " is given to a man from the tribe of Benjamin: " There was a man a Yehudi ( Judean / Jewish man ) in Shushan the capital, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite ; who had been exiled from Jerusalem with the exile that was exiled with Jeconiah, king of Judah, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had exiled.

After the splitting of the united Kingdom of Israel, the name Yehudi was used for the southern kingdom of Judah, containing not only the land of the tribe of Judah but also that of Benjamin and Simeon, along with some of the cities of the Levites.

Kempff also recorded chamber music with Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Paul Grummer, and Henryk Szeryng, among others.

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 ).

During this time he also studied composition privately in Paris with the famous Romanian violinist George Enescu, Yehudi Menuhin's teacher.

She also collaborated with celebrated artists like Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Bezrodny, Pierre Fournier, André Navarra, and Frederick Riddle in performing double concertos.

He also attended the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Many soloists better known for their violin playing have also recorded the concerto, including Nigel Kennedy, Maxim Vengerov, and Yehudi Menuhin.

He also taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School.