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Moshe Menuhin


Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism. When the family moved to Palestine, Moshe was sent to Orthodox Jewish schools, first to Yeshivas in Jerusalem, then to the Hebrew Gymnasia Herzlia in Jaffa - Tel Aviv. In 1913 he came to the United States to complete his higher education, attending New York University where he studied mathematics, political science and education. In late
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Gstaad. He has previously worked for Menuhin IP Management GmbH (Menuhin IP Management Ltd liab Co) (Menuhin IP Management Sàrl) in Schöfflisdorf which owns the official Yehudi Menuhin website. The content of the website, however, is controlled by two of Yehudi Menuhin's other children, Jeremy Menuhin and Zamira Menuhin Benthall, as directors of SYM Music Company Limited. Like his grandfather, Moshe Menuhin (the great great grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism), he considers himself anti-Zionist.
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Hephzibah Menuhin


Hephzibah Menuhin (20 May 19201 January 1981) was an American-Australian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a gifted linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser. Hephzibah Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a
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Yaltah Menuhin


Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet. Yaltah was born in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musically gifted children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. Yaltah was named after her mother, Marutha's, home town of Yalta in Crimea. At the age of three, she became part of
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. In late 1919, Moshe and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and changed the family name from Mnuchin to Menuhin. Menuhin's sisters were concert pianist and human rights activist Hephzibah, and pianist, painter and poet Yaltah. Menuhin's first violin instruction was at age four by Sigmund Anker (1891–1958); his parents had wanted Louis Persinger to teach him, but Persinger refused. Menuhin displayed exceptional musical talent at an early age. His first public appearance, when he was seven years old,
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Yehudi Menuhin


Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 191612 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 greatest violinists of the 20th century. He played the Soil Stradivarius‎ considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari. Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York City to a family of Lithuanian Jews. Through his father Moshe, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist, he was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty
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Colin Edwards (journalist)


, Edwards covered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final visit to northern California for Pacifica Radio. From the 1970s Edwards virtually gave up radio reporting to concentrate on freelance lecturing and writing, including working with Yehudi Menuhin's father, Moshe, on his autobiography, "The Menuhin Saga" (published by Sidgwick and Jackson in 1982, and translated into four languages). Colin Edwards died on 11 July 1994, in Oakland, California, where he and his wife, Mary, had lived for some thirty years. His
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of New York, Syracuse, SUNY-ESF, under the supervision of Michael Szwarc. He has been married to Joan Dvora Sugerman since 1955, and has two children, Sharona T. Levy and Alon Yitzchak Halevy, and has four grandchildren, Danielle and Itamar Menuhin, and Karina and Kasper Halevy. He lived in Rehovot, Israel. As a post-doctoral fellow under Michael Szwarc, Moshe Levy was a member of the team who discovered "Living Polymers", which was a major breakthrough in the field of polymers science
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Moshe Hammer


Moshe Hammer (; born on 29 March 1946) is an Israeli-Canadian violinist. Since 1997 he has been an active member of The Galaxy Trio with violinist Lenny Solomon and pianist Bernie Senensky. He was born in Budapest, got raised in Israel, and later he became a Canadian citizen in the year 1975. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music at the University of Tel Aviv, with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School, with Jascha Heifetz in Los Angeles, United States and with Yehudi Menuhin in London, England
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Levine Andrade


Levine Andrade (1954 – 20 November 2018) was an Indian-born British musician (violin & viola), and conductor. Levine was born in Bombay to his parents Bonaventure and Juliana, and emigrated to England. Following a scholarship to the Yehudi Menuhin School at the age of 9 he became one of its first twelve members and was tutored by Robert Masters and Yehudi Menuhin. At the age of 11, BBC Television made a full documentary about him in their series "Life of a Child". Just before leaving
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the program offered a steady parade of Prime Ministers, Premiers and newsmakers of all descriptions, including Arab Princes, show business celebrities, best selling authors and business leaders. Prominent guests and associates included two former heads of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (William Colby and Adm. Stansfield Turner), Bob Hope, Henry Mancini, Nana Mouskouri, Cleo Laine, Yehudi Menuhin, Muhammad Ali, Melvin Belli, Moshe Dayan, Prince Sultan bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, Victor Borge, Dizzy Gillespie and Norman Vincent Peale. An inveterate traveller
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of Hephzibah Menuhin's first husband Lindsay Nicholas. They had two children, Krov and Zamira (who married pianist Fou Ts'ong). Following their 1947 divorce he married the British ballerina and actress Diana Gould, whose mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart and stepfather was Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. The couple had two sons, Gerard and Jeremy, a pianist. A third child died shortly after birth. The name "Yehudi" means "Jew" in Hebrew. In an interview republished in October 2004, he recounted to "New
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XYY syndrome


chromosome abnormalities was undertaken at seven centers worldwide: in Denver (Jan 1964–1974), Edinburgh (Apr 1967–Jun 1979), New Haven (Oct 1967–Sep 1968), Toronto (Oct 1967–Sep 1971), Aarhus (Oct 1969–Jan 1974, Oct 1980–Jan 1989), Winnipeg (Feb 1970–Sep 1973), and Boston (Apr 1970–Nov 1974). The Boston study, led by Harvard Medical School child psychiatrist Stanley Walzer at Children's Hospital, was unique among the seven newborn screening studies in that it only screened newborn "boys" (
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pioneer and future Israeli politician Yosef Baratz was among the founders of Degania Alef. On June 5, 1912, he married and started the first family. His first child, Gideon Baratz (1913-1988), who was born in Degania Alef, was the first child born in a Jewish collective community in Palestine. The second child to be born in Degania Alef was the prominent Israeli general and politician Moshe Dayan. Dayan was named after Moshe Barsky, a member of Degania Alef who was the first kibbutz member killed in
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, he published his first book, a novel, "Elmer", which was panned by critics. Menuhin was, until November 2005, the CEO of the German chapter of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. He was representative of the Menuhin family on the Board of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in Gstaad, Switzerland. In June 2007, he took up the post as president of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Grenchen, Switzerland. Since 2009, there is no indication to be found of Menuhin's continuing administrative position with the Menuhin Festival
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the School grounds hosts a full programme of concerts throughout the year. The institutional legacy of Yehudi Menuhin (1916–99) includes the Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, Live Music Now (specially active in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and France), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Brussels-based International Menuhin Foundation and the Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España; but the Menuhin School has been described as 'his most enduring contribution to musical life'.. When awarded a life peerage in 1993, he chose the title Lord Menuhin
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Haim Moshe


Haim Moshe (, sometimes Chaim Moshe on recordings), born 20 September 1955 is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean "ethnic" music to include mainstream Israeli and western pop elements. He has helped Mizrahi music achieve wide popularity both in Israel and in Arab countries. Haim Moshe was born in 1956 in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. His parents were Yemenite Jews who immigrated to Israel after World War II. As a child he learned to sing not only Israeli and Jewish religious music in the
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Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky


Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky was the only child of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky and his second wife, Esther Neuhaus. His father was over 50 years old at the time of his birth. Yisrael Moshe was born in Chust, Ukraine, shortly after his father began serving as Rav of that city. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Yisroel, and his great uncle, Rabbi Moshe Schick (the "Maharam Schick"). His father was very attached to him and brought him along when he visited Torah leaders of the era
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The Man from Snowy River (TV series)


NOV 1994)br 13 The Stampede (27 NOV 1994) Season 2br 1 The Hostage (13 AUG 1995)br 2 The Savage Land (20 AUG 1995)br 3 The Railroad (27 AUG 1995)br 4 Fathers and Sons (3 SEP 1995)br 5 The Manly Art (10 SEP 1995)br 6 The Dry Argument (17 SEP 1995)br 7 Servant of the People (1 OCT 1995)br 8 The Search (8 OCT 1995)br 9 The Lost Child (15 OCT 1995)br 10 The Foundling (22 OCT 1995)br 11 The Long Arm of the Law (29 OCT 1995)br
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its gala concerts held at the Royal Festival Hall. The 2018 competition was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The Menuhin Competition is operated by the Menuhin Competition Trust, a UK-registered charity. Its President is the Japanese violinist and conductor Joji Hattori. The trust also has close ties to the Menuhin family. Yehudi Menuhin's daughter Zamira Menuhin-Benthall is its Life Patron and his grandson Aaron Menuhin serves as one of the Trustees. The competition's Artistic Director is the pianist Gordon Back. As of 2016, the Chair
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Moshe Talmon


Moshe Talmon (Hebrew: ) was born in Kibbutz Beit Alpha in 1950. He is one of the founders of a psychotherapy method known as Single-Session Therapy or (SST). Talmon received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He interned at PCGC (Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic) in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, under the supervision of Salvador Minuchin. He served as a clinical director of the Kibbutz Child and Family Clinic located in Hadera, Israel. During his tenure at Kaiser
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the special value of the classic family', he said and made it clear that he still opposed gay marriage and same-sex parenting. 'Every child in the world has a right to a mother and father. It has nothing to do with religion, but with my basic perception of the good of the child', he said." After his election to the Knesset, Moshe Feiglin met with homosexual groups. Although he does not identify with their lifestyle choices, he told them, he supports their rights as
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, a full-time Talmudic scholar, was so well respected in the community of Brest that when the Brisker Rov was not available to serve as a Sandek at a Bris, Rabbi Yitzchok Paler served in that capacity instead. As a child, Rabbi Binyomin Paler gained a reputation as a child prodigy. He originally learned in the yeshiva in Brisk headed by Moshe Sokolowsky, author of "Imrei Moshe". As he matured, he was allowed to join a small circle of select individuals who had the privilege to learn directly
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Moshe Levy (author)


Moshe Levy is an author, and a survivor of the Israeli destroyer named "Eilat". Moshe was born in Iraq in 1948. In 1951, he fled as a child with his parents from Iraq in an airlift organised by Israel, where he now lives with his family. At age 18, after graduating high school, he was drafted into the Israeli navy and volunteered to serve aboard destroyer "Eilat". The night in 1967 shortly after the Six days war that "Eilat" was attacked by Egyptian SS-
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Moshe Sharett


Moshe Sharett (, born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: )‎ 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954–55), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms. He continued as Foreign Minister (1955–56) in the Mapai government. Born in Kherson in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Sharett immigrated to Ottoman Palestine as a child in 1906. For two years, 1906-1907, the family lived in a rented house in
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immigrants from Zhashkiv. Kibbutz Degania Alef, with 11 members, was the first kibbutz, and would become part of the State of Israel. Dayan was the second child born at Degania, after Gideon Baratz (1913–1988). He was named Moshe after Moshe Barsky, the first member of Degania to be killed in an Arab attack, who died getting medication for Dayan's father. Soon afterward, Dayan's parents moved to Nahalal, the first "moshav", or farming cooperative, to be established. Dayan attended the
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Diana Gould (dancer)


, when he adopted British citizenship, and his knighthood became substantive. In 1993 Sir Yehudi was made a life peer, as Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon, and Lady Menuhin became Baroness Menuhin (although still generally referred to as Lady Menuhin). Lord Menuhin died in Berlin in 1999, and Lady Menuhin in London in 2003, aged 90. She was survived by her two sons and her two stepchildren. She wrote two autobiographies: "Fiddler's Moll" (1984) and "A Glimpse of Olympus" (1996
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Jeremy Menuhin


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, California, the fourth son of his father Yehudi Menuhin and the second of his mother Diana Gould Menuhin. He attended Eton College near Windsor, Berkshire. He describes his childhood as economically privileged but emotionally "grotesque", his father as "cold and detached", and his mother as "domineering and volatile". Unlike father Yehudi, who was pushed towards music
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his only personal student, and the two toured extensively throughout the concert halls of Europe. The young protégé later established the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, in his honor. Menuhin made several recordings with the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had been criticized for conducting in Germany during the Nazi era. Menuhin defended Furtwängler, noting that the conductor had helped a number of Jewish musicians to flee Nazi Germany. In 1957, he founded the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in Gstaad, Switzerland. In 1962, he established the Yehudi Menuhin
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hug you. You are the child of all of Israel." In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a memorial service was held for Gavriel and his wife at a Chabad synagogue, where almost 1,500 people attended. The Holtzbergs' son Moshe, who survived the attack, and his Indian nanny Sandra Samuel, subsequently moved to Israel where Moshe's grandparents live. The Israeli Government under Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni awarded Samuel a special visa offering immigration status. Samuel has stated she will continue to care for Moshe for as long as
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Moshe ben Yosef Firrouz


Rabbi Moshe ben Yoseph Firrouz (born 1972) is an Israeli Karaite Hakham, Torah scholar, Register of Marriage and Divorce, and the spiritual leader of the Karaite Jewish Committee . He serves as Chairman of the Council of Sages of association World Karaite Judaism and its religious council. Moshe Firrouz was born in 1972 in Or Yehuda, and as a child moved to Bat Yam .He fulfilled his military service in the Air Force, then carried out Beer Sheva pilgrimage studies in Ben Gurion University. He earned a BA in nuclear engineering
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Mosh Ben-Ari


Moshe "Mosh" Ben Ari (; born 21 September 1970) is an Israeli musician, lyricist and composer. Ben Ari was born in Afula, Israel, to a family of Mizrahi Jewish background. He first discovered music as a child through the traditional Jewish and ethnic chants that were part of his everyday life. He started playing music at the age of 16 and since he has studied music around the world, including in India, Sahara and Sinai. He plays various string instruments including acoustic and classic guitar, Indian sarod
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Church) in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. He married Rachel Theresa Child (14 Sep 1860 – 30 Sep 1934) on April 10, 1879 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory, and the couple had 10 children, two of whom died in infancy. Production examples of the Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle caught the attention of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, who dispatched a representative to evaluate the competition. Winchester bought the design for $8,000 and moved production to their Connecticut factory. From 1883, Browning
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Gerard Menuhin


Gerard Menuhin (born 1948 in Scotland) is a writer and Holocaust denier. His book "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil", published in 2015, states that the Holocaust is "the biggest lie in history". He is the son of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould, and brother of pianist Jeremy Menuhin. Born in July 1948 in Scotland, United Kingdom, he is the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who was Jewish and dancer Diana Gould, a gentile. He attended Eton College,
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Joel Ryce-Menuhin


with his wife, Yaltah Menuhin, and wrote and edited several books on psychology ("Jung and the Monotheisms", "Jungian Sandplay: The Wonderful Therapy", et al.). He formerly edited the Jungian journal, "Harvest". Joel Ryce-Menuhin and his wife were married for almost forty years. Following an extended struggle with cancer, Ryce-Menuhin died on March 31, 1998, aged 64, with his wife by his side. Yaltah Menuhin continued to live in their home in Canfield Gardens
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parents and tutors in San Francisco, but he believed that it was in the interest of musically gifted children to live and study with their peers.. After Menuhin's death in 1999, the School undertook a fundraising drive to make possible the construction of a state-of-the-art concert hall, the Menuhin Hall, which was opened in 2006 with a concert conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, who had accepted the honorary position of President in succession to Menuhin. The Menuhin Hall hosts a full programme of Showcase Concerts, featuring
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Yehudi Menuhin School. The competition took place for the first time in 1983 at Folkestone on the south coast of England and was based there for its first 15 years with Menuhin himself conducting master classes for the competitors. Following a three-year gap after the 1995 competition, it resumed in 1998 at Boulogne-sur-Mer on the French side of the English Channel and returned to Folkestone in 2000. At the inauguration of the first competition, Yehudi Menuhin said: After Menuhin's death, the pianist Gordon Back, who
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Internationalist" magazine the story of his name: Menuhin died in Martin Luther Hospital in Berlin, Germany, from complications of bronchitis. Soon after his death, the Royal Academy of Music acquired the "Yehudi Menuhin Archive", which includes sheet music marked up for performance, correspondence, news articles and photographs relating to Menuhin, autograph musical manuscripts, and several portraits of Paganini. In 1953, "Life" published photos of him in various esoteric yoga positions. In 1952, Menuhin was in India, where Nehru, the
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Adolph Baller


pianist for the WQXR radio station in New York City, he met violinist Yehudi Menuhin and cellist Gabor Rejto. Beginning in 1941, the Ballers lived with their daughter, Nina, at Menuhin's Alma Estate in Los Gatos, California. For several years Baller accompanied Menuhin in performances throughout the world and performed in chamber concerts, being particularly active during World War II with performances for troops deployed overseas. Under Yehudi Menuhin's patronage, Baller, Gabor Rejto and Roman Totenberg formed the Alma Trio in 1942-1943 at Menuhin's
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to run the festival itself, but in 1955 asked Hunter back. In 1959 Hunter invited Menuhin to become artistic director of the festival. Menuhin accepted, and retained the post until 1968. At the Edinburgh Festival in 1957 Menuhin premiered Priaulx Rainier's violin concerto "Due Canti e Finale", which he had commissioned Rainier to write. He also commissioned her last work, "Wildlife Celebration", which he performed in aid of Gerald Durrell's Wildlife Conservation Trust. Menuhin also had a long association with Ravi Shankar, beginning
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1983, Menuhin and Robert Masters founded the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, today one of the world's leading forums for young talent. Many of its prizewinners have gone on to become prominent violinists, including Tasmin Little, Nikolaj Znaider, Ilya Gringolts, Julia Fischer, Daishin Kashimoto and Ray Chen. In the 1980s, Menuhin wrote and oversaw the creation of a "Music Guides" series of books; each covered a musical instrument, with one on the human voice. Menuhin wrote some, while others were edited
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issued a milestone collection of 80 CDs entitled "The Menuhin Century", curated by his long-time friend and protégé Bruno Monsaingeon, who selected the recordings and sourced rare archival materials to tell Menuhin's story. In 1990 Menuhin was the first conductor for the Asian Youth Orchestra which toured around Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with Julian Lloyd Webber and a group of young talented musicians from all over Asia. Menuhin was married twice, first to Nola Nicholas, daughter of an Australian industrialist and sister
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Menuhin Festival Gstaad


The Menuhin Festival Gstaad is a music festival founded by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin held every summer since 1957 in the Swiss alpine town of Gstaad. The Menuhin family settled in Gstaad in 1957, the year of the first Menuhin Festival Gstaad. It now consists of more than 50 concerts over a period of seven weeks, with a vast array of famous soloists and ensembles alike. In 2012, it was held between Friday, 20 July and 8 September. Although Gstaad is the main focus of activities, many events take place in
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Jeremy Menuhin


, he married Brigid Gabriel Forbes-Sempill, the daughter of William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill, with whom he had two children, Nadya Cecilia Menuhin (born 1985) and Petroc Forbes Menuhin (born 1988). In response to his own childhood experiences, Menuhin placed a great emphasis on being involved in his children's lives; even after he and his wife later divorced, they continued to live within walking distance of each other so that Menuhin could maintain contact with his son. In 2007, he married
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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extremist ideas. He has also provided a fiercely anti-Israel interview with the pro-Iranian regime extremist German-language website, Muslim-Markt." Gerard Menuhin's book "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil" was published in 2015. According to Menuhin, the Holocaust is "the biggest lie in history" and "Germany has no blame for the Second World War". Menuhin married Eva Struyvenberg in New York in March 1983, the daughter of Albert Struyvenberg from Seattle. In 1990, he and Eva
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Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists


The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists (or simply the Menuhin Competition) is an international music competition for violinists under the age of 22. It was founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1983 with the goal of nurturing young violinists. In its early years, the competition took place in Folkestone on the south coast of England. Since 1998, it has been held biennially in different cities around the world. Several of the competition's past laureates, including Julia Fischer, Tasmin Little, and Nikolaj Znaider, have gone on to
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Yehudi Menuhin


sitar concertos, but Menuhin and Shankar never recorded it. Menuhin also worked with famous jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli in the 1970s on "Jalousie", an album of 1930s classics led by duetting violins backed by the Alan Claire Trio. In 1977, Menuhin and Ian Stoutzker founded the charity Live Music Now, the largest outreach music project in the UK. Live Music Now pays and trains professional musicians to work in the community, bringing the experience to those who rarely get an opportunity to hear or see live music performance. In
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with EMI lasted almost 70 years and is the longest in the history of the music industry. He made his first recording at age 13 in November 1929, and his last in 1999, when he was nearly 83 years old. He recorded over 300 works for EMI, both as a violinist and as a conductor. In 2009 EMI released a 51-CD retrospective of Menuhin's recording career, titled "Yehudi Menuhin: The Great EMI Recordings". In 2016, the Menuhin centenary year, Warner Classics (formerly EMI Classics)
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West Meets East


. The friendship between the two musicians had begun in India in the early 1950s, after which Menuhin had done much to introduce Western audiences to Indian music. On the recording, the main performers are accompanied at various points by tabla player Alla Rakha; Menuhin's sister, pianist Hephzibah Menuhin; and Prodyot Sen, on tambura. In addition to Shankar's and Menuhin's liner notes on the album sleeve, musician John Barham supplied a glossary, explaining musical terms such as alap, gat and tala. At the Bath Festival
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Hephzibah Menuhin


was at that time the chief conductor of the Victorian Symphony Orchestra). In 1954 she moved to Sydney, where she gave concerts and opened her home to anyone in need. In Sydney, Hephzibah Menuhin met and became involved with Richard Hauser, an Austrian Quaker sociologist and social commentator who had moved to Sydney with his family, then wife Ruth Hauser, and their daughter Eva. Hephzibah divorced her husband and married Hauser in Sydney in 1955. Two years later Menuhin and Hauser moved to London with their daughter, Clara Menuhin
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room at the Melbourne Arts Centre's Hamer Hall was named in Hephzibah's honour. In 1998 Curtis Levy produced and directed a well-received documentary, "Hephzibah" to critical acclaim. A biography "An Exacting Heart" was published in 2007 by Jacqueline Kent. A biography of Yehudi Menuhin and his family entitled "Yehudiana – Reliving the Menuhin Odyssey" by Philip Bailey, who worked on the Menuhin staff from 1976 until Yehudi's death in 1999, has been published in late 2008. This book contains some information concerning
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performing, and conducting (such as Bach orchestral works with the Bath Chamber Orchestra), to an advanced age, including some nonclassical music in his repertory. Menuhin credited German philosopher Constantin Brunner with providing him with "a theoretical framework within which I could fit the events and experiences of life". Following his role as a member of the awards jury at the 1955 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, Menuhin secured a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the financially strapped Grand Prize winner at the event, Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy. Menuhin made Lysy
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new nation's first Prime Minister, introduced him to an influential yogi B. K. S. Iyengar, who was largely unknown outside the country. Menuhin arranged for Iyengar to teach abroad in London, Switzerland, Paris, and elsewhere. He became one of the first prominent yoga masters teaching in the West. Menuhin also took lessons from Indra Devi, who opened the first yoga studio in the U.S. in Los Angeles in 1948. Both Devi and Iyengar were students of Krishnamacharya, a famous yoga master in India. Menuhin used a number
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Gerard Menuhin


Until 2005, his political views had barely registered with the outside world even though he has a regular column in the Munich-based ultra-nationalist "National Zeitung". Because of Gerard Menuhin's extremist or nationalistic utterances, he was relieved of his post as chairman on 12 November 2005 by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Germany. The London "Times" Berlin correspondent Roger Boyes reported a few days later, that Menuhin had "outed himself as a clear sympathiser with the neo-Nazi cause in two interviews he gave. In
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Krishnamurti, he was asked to go to Bombay to meet Menuhin, who was known to be interested in yoga. Menuhin said he was very tired and could spare only five minutes. Iyengar told him to lie down in Savasana (lying on his back), and he fell asleep. After one hour, Menuhin awoke refreshed and spent another two hours with Iyengar. Menuhin came to believe that practising yoga improved his playing, and in 1954 invited Iyengar to Switzerland. At the end of that visit, he presented his yoga
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Sophia Reuter


Prof. Peter Tietze in Berlin. At the age of ten she was the youngest prize winner in the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, and in 1988 she was first prize winner at the music competition in Weimar. In 1989 she was invited by Yehudi Menuhin to study at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland where she was a student of Menuhin and Alberto Lysy. Her career has taken her to major music festivals and prominent performance halls all around the world. She has collaborated with Yehudi Menuhin, Nikita Magaloff,
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Yaltah Menuhin


their art, by means of awards and bursaries. The distinguished French pianist, Cécile Ousset, is Honorary Patron of the Yaltah Menuhin Memorial Fund. As part of a revamped prize package for the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Yaltah Menuhin Award became a permanent feature of The Leeds in 2018, presented to the pianist who demonstrates the greatest collaborative and empathetic qualities in the chamber performance of the semi-final. Recipients of the Yaltah Menuhin Award include: Mario Häringbr Lezanti van Sittertbr Roelof Temminghbr Kensuke Kawajiribr Sulayman Humanbr Eben Wagenstroombr Melissa
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Compassion Through Music


Compassion Through Music is an ongoing project created by violinists Edna Michell and Yehudi Menuhin, in which leading composers write works inspired by the theme of universal compassion.The project reflects Michell and Menuhin’s belief that compassion is critical to the fate of humanity and that through music, listeners may be moved to connect more deeply with others. The project began with a conversation between Michell and Menuhin following a concert in Prague. Menuhin spoke with dismay about atrocities and human suffering worldwide. Michell responded by suggesting that they ask composers around the
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Fast of the Firstborn


died within 30 days of birth, the next oldest is required to fast. (The "Dagul Mervavah" maintains that this only applies if the oldest child had been born prematurely or was not born viable). Many authorities, including the "Rema", note the custom that the father of a firstborn should fast on his child's behalf until the child reaches halakhic adulthood. The Rema rules that if the father is a firstborn himself, the mother should fast on behalf of the child. The "Mateh Moshe"
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Moshe Idel


Moshe Idel () is a Romanian born historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. He is Emeritus Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Born in Târgu Neamț, Romania, in 1947, Idel was a precocious child, with a passion for reading which made him read all the books in the town, cooperative, then High school Library, in addition to buying more books with the money earned by singing at weddings. Although the Holocaust did not
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Moshe Mordechai Epstein


his days in the Volozhin yeshiva as "the Black Genius". Little Moshe Mordechai's genius was detected from a very early age and he was called the "Illuj from Bakst". The child prodigy began studying in the Volozhin yeshiva at the age of 16, under the guidance of the legendary Torah giant Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik. There, he met his brother-in-law-to-be, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, and, in 1889, married Menucha Frank, the eldest "Frank sister". Perhaps
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Eldad ha-Dani


Sabbath. From the first moment of Sabbath to the last, fire surrounds the river, and during that time no human being can approach within half a mile of either side of it. The four other tribes communicate with the Bnei Moshe from the borders of the river. The Bnei Moshe dwell in beautiful houses, and no unclean animal is found in their land. Their cattle and sheep as well as their fields bear twice a year. No child dies during the lifetime of its parents, who live to see a third
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Moshe Dayan


Moshe Dayan (; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav (farming cooperative). As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–58) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became to the
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The Beeps


Sapphire Stream S2/Ep45 Apr. 29 Wash Those Socks! S2/Ep46 Dec. 12 The Bumps SEASON 3: S3/Ep1 Aug. 30 Up Down Hill S3/Ep2 Aug. 31 Caravan S3/Ep3 Sep. 6 Secret Garden S3/Ep4 Sep. 7 Bounceflower Tea S3/Ep5 Sep. 13 The Whale S3/Ep6 Sep. 14 Soggy Sockroaches S3/Ep7 Sep. 20 Stinkroots S3/Ep8 Sep. 21 Sing-a-long-a-beeps S3/Ep9 Sep. 27 History Book S3/Ep10 Sep. 28 What Goes Splat? S3
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Signal Transfer Point


. SEPs send signaling messages to other SEPs, but the messages are normally routed via the SEP's adjacent STPs. An STP's main function is to identify the best path for two SEPs to communicate. A typical application would be for two SEPs to agree on the use of a shared data path (e.g., using ISUP to initiate a voice call between a user on one SEP and a user on the second SEP). In this way, STPs route signaling messages (for starting, maintaining or finishing any kind of
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Melting Away


Melting Away (, "Names Ba-Geshem") is a 2012 Israeli drama film written by Billy Ben-Moshe and directed by Doron Eran, starring Hen Yanni in the lead role. This is the first Israeli feature film deals with parents coping with their transgender child. The idea for the movie was conceived after the 2009 Tel Aviv gay centre shooting. Doron Eran and Billy Ben-Moshe watched TV and heard that parents refused to visit their injured kids at the hospital because they were afraid that their friends and relatives
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Jewish philosophy


Jewish tradition. Nonetheless, he had a significant impact on subsequent Jewish philosophical followers of the Kalām, such as Saʿadya Gaon. Samuel ibn Naghrillah, born in Mérida, Spain, lived in Córdoba and was a child prodigy and student of Hanoch ben Moshe. Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, and Moshe ben Hanoch founded the Lucena Yeshiva that produced such brilliant scholars as Isaac ibn Ghiyyat and Maimon ben Yosef, the father of Maimonides. Ibn Naghrillah's son, Yosef, provided refuge for two sons of Hezekiah Gaon;
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Moshe Ha-Elion


with his wife and their one year old child) were ordered to the Baron Hirsch ghetto believing that from there they will be transported and resettled in Poland. They packed their bags which included warm clothing they bought especially for settling in Poland, left their keys with their non-Jewish neighbors and moved to the Baron Hirsch ghetto. In the morning of April 7, 1943 Moshe and his family were transported in freight wagons packed with people. They travelled for six days and nights. He describes the deportation in his poem "
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Gila Katsav


Gila Katsav (, born 1948) is an Israeli public figure who served as the First Lady of Israel from 2000 until 2007 as the wife of former President Moshe Katsav. In 1969, she married Moshe Katsav. The couple has five children, four sons and a daughter, and two grandchildren. Katsav is involved in personal volunteer activities for children who come from disadvantaged families as part of the efforts of “The Council for the Sheltered Child. She also volunteered for the Rehabilitation Department of Yad Sarah, a voluntary organization which
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Moshe Prausnitz


Moshe (Max) W. Prausnitz (Hebrew: משה פראוסניץ; December 22, 1922 – July 1, 1998) was an Israeli archaeologist who specialized in the prehistory field. Prausnitz was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. He moved to Israel with his family in 1937 at the age of 15, and lived on Mount Carmel in Haifa. After the Second World War ended he studied at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 1953 he went to study in England under V. Gordon Childe, an Australian archaeologist and philologist
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Signal Transfer Point


calls originated by the SEPs' attached users) while avoiding disabled intermediary STPs. A signaling message typically never goes directly from a given SEP to the destination SEP: the message would normally have to pass through the initiating SEP's adjacent STP so that it can be routed to the destination SEP. In some applications, however, SEPs might be directly connected with signaling links; this would typically be done to enhance robustness or performance between two critical SEPs. Such mesh network configurations are also common in Europe, where STPs have not
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Benjamin Marsh


cabins. Marsh's daughter, Abigail, was the first white child born in Sutton. As the town grew, Marsh held a number of positions of responsibility, including Selectman, Town Clerk and Town Moderator. He served on committees representing the town for the purpose of erecting a meeting house and financial matters, and served as Trustee for town funds. His daughter, Abigail, was the first child born in Sutton. On Sep. 16, 1735, he founded the town's Baptist church, which is the fourth oldest Baptist
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Moshe Leib Rabinovich


Moshe Leib Rabinovich (born December 25, 1940 in Munkacs, Hungary) is the current rebbe of Munkacs. Rabinovich was born as the third child to his parents Rabbi Baruch and Frima Rabinovich in Munkacs, Carpathian Ruthenia, Ukraine, the country itself having at the time just been created with a sizable piece of Hungary, which in turn received Munkacs from Czechoslovakia with the help of Nazi Germany in 1938. His father, Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinowicz served as Chief Rabbi of Munkacs following the death of his father-in-
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Ben Zion Halberstam


Nechama Golda Halberstam married Moshe Stempel. Moshe Stempel was murdered by the Nazis together with his father-in-law Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam and brothers-in-law. After World War II, Nechama Golda remarried to Yehosua Meir Freshwater of Sassov. She had the following children: 4) Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov, who married Bluma Rachel Teitelbaum. They had three children. Their daughter Hentchi and their son Mordche Duvid were murdered in Auschwitz, their only child to survive was their son: After World War II,
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Esther Cailingold


are named after her. In England she is remembered through the Esther Cailingold society in North London, part of Emunah UK, a worldwide Jewish children's welfare charity. Esther Cailingold was born in Whitechapel, London, on 28 June 1925, eldest child of Moshe Cailingold and Anne, née Fenechel. Moshe had immigrated from Warsaw in 1920, and had opened up a London branch of his family's bookselling and publishing business. After the family moved to Stamford Hill, North London, in 1936, Esther attended the North London
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The Beeps


/Ep20 Sep. 19 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep S2/Ep21 Sep. 19 Big Beepday Bash S2/Ep22 Sep. 20 Yuk Says No S2/Ep23 Sep. 24 Wheely Helpful S2/Ep24 Sep. 25 Teeny Beep Takes Off S2/Ep25 Sep. 26 Carnival S2/Ep26 Sep. 27 Peas and Beeps S2/Ep27 Apr. 25 Stuck on You! S2/Ep28 Dec. 9 Hole Lot of Trouble S2/Ep29 Dec. 15 A Little Adventure S2/Ep30 Dec. 16 The Lost Houses S2/Ep31 May 1 Bounceberry Pie S2/Ep32 Dec. 23
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Moloch


this 7th-century reform abolished the child sacrifice that had hitherto been an acceptable part of the cult of Yahweh. Paul G. Mosca's "Child Sacrifice in Canaanite and Israelite Religion: A Study in Mulk and Molech" (1975) similarly argued in support of the theory that child sacrifice ("molk") to Yahweh was practiced until the Deuteronomic reform of the 7th century BC. Moshe Weinfield (1972) once again revived the "februarist" position, suggesting that the practice of "passing through fire" prohibited for
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Gerard Menuhin


", writing a column named "Menuhin and how he sees the world", and also in the newspaper of the far-right NDP's "Deutsche Stimme" ("German Voice"). In November 2014, Israeli media referred Menuhin as an example of a "Jewish anti-Semite" and "anti-Israel extremist". An article in "The Jerusalem Post" asserted that he "authored columns in the "National-Zeitung", a paper infamous for its neo-Nazi and right-wing
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Sheila Singh Paul


Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and African Child Health". Vol. 2, Sep., 1963 2. Paul SS, Rao PL, Mullick P, Kalliana P "A Case of Chondrodystrophia Calcificans Congenita". "Arch Dis Child" 1963 38: 632-635. doi: 10.1136/adc.38.202.632 3. Paul SS "A case of Guglielmo Syndrome with foetal haemoglobin". "J Ind Pediatr" Soo 2; 363:1963 4. Paul SS, Gupta S, Singh V "An analysis of tetanus in children treated without ATS
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Lü Siqing


Lü Siqing (; born 1969) is a Chinese violinist. He was the first Asian violinist to win the first prize at the Paganini Competition in 1987. Lü was born in 1969 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. As a child he was taught by the famous violinist Sheng Zhongguo. He began studying the violin at the age of four, and at age eight, he was accepted at the Central Conservatory of Music and became the youngest person to study there. When he was 11, Lü was selected by Yehudi Menuhin to
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Gordon Back


at the first Menuhin Competition in 1983. Following Menuhin's death in 1999, he began taking the competition further afield, to Norway, China and the United States among other locations. He describes it as "as much a festival as a competition". In 2016 he appeared in a BBC television documentary, "Who's Yehudi?", to mark the centenary of Menuhin's birth. In response to observations about the predominance of Asian competitors in recent competitions, Back says, "Musicians who studied in America with some
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Gerard Menuhin


completing his studies at Stanford University in California. The brother of the pianist Jeremy Menuhin, Gerard did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father or brother and decided to enter into acting. In London's Mermaid Theatre, he landed a role in the Erich Kästner-piece "Emil and the Detectives". In December 1970, when Menuhin was 22, he and his father temporarily lost their American citizenship after they were granted Swiss citizenship, as American law at the time did not permit dual citizenship. In 1985
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West Meets East


, Barham had translated Shankar's interpretation of Raga Tilang into Western annotation for Menuhin's benefit. When making "West Meets East", Shankar rewrote this Tilang-based piece,Sue C. Clark, "Ravi Shankar: The "Rolling Stone" Interview", "Rolling Stone", 9 March 1968 (retrieved 1 December 2013)./ref recording it with Menuhin as "Swara Kakali". The album's opening selection is "Prabhati", a Shankar composition based on Raga Gunakali, and played by Menuhin and Rakha. The fourth
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Lord Wilton


The Lord Wilton Guarnerius, sometimes called the ex-Yehudi Menuhin, is an antique and valuable violin fabricated by Italian luthier Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri (1698–1744), usually called Guarneri del Gesù. The violin was made in 1742 in the city of Cremona. It was named after Seymour Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton, a musician, associate of Arthur Sullivan, and 19th century owner of the instrument. It was owned and played by the celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin from 1978 to 1999. After Menuhin's death in 1999, the
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Yaltah Menuhin


in Paris, London and New York. She married Ryce in 1960, and their 40-year marriage was a happy one. The Menuhin-Ryce duo won the coveted Harriet Cohen International Music Award in 1962, in a programme largely devoted to works by Schubert for four hands. In 1966, they performed the Mozart Double Piano Concerto under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin in Gstaad and other venues in Europe. Yaltah and Joel Ryce were soloists in Saint-Saëns' "The Carnival of the Animals" for the BBC. In 1967
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Alma Trio


The Alma Trio was a classical piano trio established in 1942 at the "Alma Estate" of Yehudi Menuhin in Los Gatos, California. The original founding members of the Alma Trio were Roman Totenberg, violin; Gabor Rejto, cello; and Adolph Baller, piano. The members of the Trio had been encouraged by the famed artist, Yehudi Menuhin, to establish themselves as a professional piano trio. Adolph Baller had emigrated to the United States in 1938 with the sponsorship of Menuhin, following harrowing experiences at the hands of the
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Nicola Benedetti


study at the Yehudi Menuhin School for young musicians under Baron Menuhin and Natasha Boyarskaya in rural Surrey, England. At the end of her first year (1998), she played solo in the school's annual concert at Wigmore Hall, and performed in London and Paris as a soloist in Bach's Double Violin Concerto (together with Alina Ibragimova). She played in a memorial concert at Westminster Abbey celebrating the life and work of Yehudi Menuhin. Nicola has an older sister, Stephanie, who is also a violinist and a
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Diana Gould (dancer)


to 17 hours a day organising his paperwork and travel arrangements. She pulled no punches, referring to herself as "the awfully frank and frankly awful Diana". He referred to her as "my heavenly host on this earthly way" and "the ever-trustworthy and inspired companion of a lifetime". Yehudi Menuhin was made an honorary knight in 1965, but not being a British subject, he was not entitled to be known as Sir Yehudi, and neither did Diana Menuhin become Lady Menuhin. That changed in 1985
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Hephzibah Menuhin


death. They worked on small-steps conciliation and attempted to help minorities all over the world, and she was a passionate supporter of women's and children's rights. In 1977 Hephzibah Menuhin became the President of the British chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Hephzibah and Richard Hauser wrote "The Fraternal Society" (Bodley Head) together. In 1962 she and Yehudi toured Australia. She toured with Yehudi and the Menuhin Festival Orchestra: the United States and Canada in 1967, and Australia in
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Alina Ibragimova


took up the post of principal double bass with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the family moved to England. In the following year, Ibragimova began her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School (where her mother is professor of violin) under Natasha Boyarskaya. In December 1998, Ibragimova performed with Nicola Benedetti at the opening ceremony of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at UNESCO in Paris; they played Bach's double violin concerto under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin died three months later, and Ibragimova performed
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Concerto for Violin and Strings (Mendelssohn)


in Switzerland. Menuhin edited the concerto for performance and had it published by Peters Edition. On 4 February 1952, Menuhin introduced the concerto to a Carnegie Hall audience with a "string Band", conducting the concerto from the violin. Menuhin played the work often in recital, and made three recordings of it. The first was made immediately after the New York premiere, with him conducting the RCA Victor String Orchestra (his conducting debut on record), the second made the following year with Sir Adrian Boult and the Philharmonia
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Yehudi Menuhin


an equally rapturous response. In the Berlin performance, "There steps a fat little blond boy on the podium, and wins at once all hearts as in an irresistably ludicrous way, like a penguin, he alternately places one foot down, then the other. But wait: you will stop laughing when he puts his bow to the violin to play Bach's violin concerto in E major no.2." When the Menuhins moved to Paris, Persinger suggested Menuhin go to Persinger's old teacher, Belgian virtuoso and pedagogue Eugène Ysaÿe
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Yehudi Menuhin


, along with Stéphane Grappelli, Yehudi played "Pick Yourself Up", taken from the "Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter and Rodgers & Hart" album as the interval act at the 23rd Eurovision Song Contest for TF1. The performance came direct from the studios of TF1 and not that of the venue (Palais des Congrès), where the contest was being held. Menuhin hosted the PBS telecast of the gala opening concert of the San Francisco Symphony from Davies Symphony Hall in September 1980. His recording contract
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Ravi Shankar


music for the "Apu Trilogy" by Satyajit Ray, which became internationally acclaimed. He was music director for several Hindi movies including "Godaan" and "Anuradha". V. K. Narayana Menon, 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 part of a cultural delegation in the Soviet Union in 1954 and Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford
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Marie Scheublé


Marie Scheublé (born in 1974) is a French classical violinist. Scheublé began her violin studies at the age of 5, then became a student of Gérard Poulet at the age of 9. She won First Prize in chamber music at the age of 16, followed by First Prize in violin at the Conservatoire de Paris. She followed the masterclasses of Zakhar Bron, , Yehudi Menuhin, Giorgio Ferrari. At 18, she won the First Prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in front of a jury composed of Lord Menuhin
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Windsor Festival


The Windsor Festival was founded in 1969 with Yehudi Menuhin and Ian Hunter as Artistic Directors and Laurence West as Executive Chairman. The original idea for the Festival was put forward by Ian Hunter to the Dean of Windsor in 1968, building on the participation of the Menuhin Festival Orchestra with Yehudi Menuhin using St George's Chapel, the State Apartments of Windsor Castle and the Theatre Royal. The Dean formed the Windsor Festival Society, which then moved to plan the first festival. Since that time the Festival has continued to attract distinguished artists
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