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Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet
Menuhin or Menuchin is the surname of: * Hephzibah Menuhin (1920–1981), American-Jewish concert pianist *Joel Ryce-Menuhin (1933–1998), Jungian psychologist *Linda Menuhin (born 1950), Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger * Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983), teacher and author, father of Yehudi, Hephzibah and Yaltah Menuhin *Yaltah Menuhin (1921–2001), American-Jewish pianist * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), American-Jewish (later Swiss, then British) violin virtuoso and conductor *Gerard Menuhin (born 1948), author, son of Yehudi * Jeremy Menuhin (born 1951), British pianist, son of Yehudi Places * Menuhin Festival Gstaad, a Gstaad festival * Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, an international violin competition for young violinists named after Yehudi Menuhin See also * Yehudi Menuhin School *Mnuchin *Minuchin Salvador Minuchin (October 13, 1921 – October 30, 2017) was a family therapist born and raised in San Salvador, Entre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser. Early life Hephzibah Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. Her mother, Marutha, has been described as "dominant and controlling". The Menuhin children had little formal schooling. Hephzibah spent only five days at a San Francisco school, where she was classed as educationally backward. Her parents took her out of school and taught her to read and write at home.Hall of Fame , liveper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Ryce-Menuhin
Joel Ryce-Menuhin (June 11, 1933 – March 31, 1998) was an American piano, pianist, who later became a Jungian psychologist in private practice. Biography Joel Ryce-Menuhin was born as Joel Taylor Rice in Sterling, Illinois to Joseph Kenneth Rice (1901–1998) and Emily Bours Thompson Rice (1898–1982). At a young age he showed considerable talent as a pianist, attending the Juilliard School along with pianist Van Cliburn as a student of Rosina Lhévinne. While later studying in London with famed pianist Dame Myra Hess in 1959, Joel Rice was introduced to Yaltah Menuhin, sister of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who had come to play in the Bath Festival. A year later, after their marriage in America on Joel's 27th birthday in 1960, the young pianists were invited to play together at a festival in California. They so enjoyed this first performance, that they subsequently devoted a large portion of their time each season to joint appearances, playing solos, duets and works for two piano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Menuhin
Linda Abdul Aziz Menuhin (born 1950; , ) is an Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger who has written for Arab news. Menuhin was a refugee to Israel in the 1970s and has been nicknamed, the "Anne Frank of Iraq". She previously served as head of the Middle East desk and commentator on Arab affairs on Arabic television channel 1. She was the subject of the 2013 Israeli documentary film ''Shadow in Baghdad'', directed by Duki Dror. Biography Menuhin was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq into an Arab Jewish family. After the Six-Day War in 1967, the Jews of Baghdad became targets. At the age of 21, she fled to Israel via Pahlavi Iran with her brother. A few months later her mother and sister did the same route, and the family left behind her father. When she first arrived to Israel in 1971, there was a struggle for people to understand the history of Jews in Iraq and she has expressed feeling like, "there was no room for the Arab culture in Israel" during that time. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Menuhin
Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was an American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew. Biography Menuhin was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Lithuanian Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism as well as Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev. When the family moved to the Yishuv, 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 1919 he and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and changed their surname to Menuhin.Jacqueline Kent, ''An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin'', p. 18 He later moved to California, where he worked as a Hebrew teacher. His views were anti-Zionist, and were subject of controversy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaltah Menuhin
Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet. Early life 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, she 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 the rigorous regime already imposed on her siblings: the family employed tutors for the children, and Yaltah had her first piano lessons from the wife of the tutor in harmony and counterpoint. In 1960, she married (third marriage) an American pianist Joel Ryce who later retrained as a psychotherapist. Joel died in 1998. She was taken to Paris at the age of four when Yehudi and Hephzibah went to study there. Marcel Ciampi, engaged to teach Hephzibah, initially refused to entertain the notion of teaching Yaltah at s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehudi Menuhin
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Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name: * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor ** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England ** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to the violinist * Yehudi Wyner (born 1929), composer and pianist * Jehudi Ashmun (1794–1828), religious leader and social reformer Other uses * Yehudi lights See also * Yahud (other) * Yehuda (other) * Yuda (other), / Juda (other) / Judah (other) * Jew (word) The English term ''Jew'' originates in the Biblical Hebrew word ''Yehudi'', meaning "from the Kingdom of Judah". It passed into Greek as ''Ioudaios'' and Latin as ''Iudaeus'', which evolved into the Old French ''giu'' after the letter "d" wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Menuhin
Gerard Menuhin (born 1948 in Scotland) is a Holocaust denier and activist, associated with the neo-Nazi movement in Germany. His book ''Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil'', published in 2015, argues that the Holocaust is "the biggest lie in history", that Jews are an "alien, demonic force which seeks to dominate the world", that "Jews are flooding Europe with non-white races", to create a "society of racial mongrels, under the rule of a 'new Jewish nobility, and plan to "create a one-world government". Menuhin argues that "the world owes Adolf Hitler an apology". He is the son of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould, and brother of pianist Jeremy Menuhin. Background Born in July , |
Jeremy Menuhin
Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin (born 2 November 1951) is a composer and pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Early life Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California, the fourth son of his father Yehudi Menuhin and the second of his mother Diana Gould (dancer), 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 at a young age by his own mother (Jeremy's grandmother), Jeremy himself did not have any musical education until his nanny began arranging it in response to his interest. However, Yehudi began paying more attention to his son's musical career when his talent became clear. Jeremy studied musical composition, composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, piano in Israel with Mindru Katz, and conducting in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky. Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, after being asked by the director of tourism to "enhance the summer season with some concerts". 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 other venues in the Bernese Oberland. In 2012, the first concert was a recital by British violinist Julia Fischer in the church at Saanen. Other prominent soloists include pianist András Schiff, soprano Cecilia Bartoli, and cellist Sol Gabetta Sol Gabetta (born 18 April 1981) is an Argentine cellist. The daughter of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, she has French an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 major international careers.Miller, Joe (15 April 2016)"Highly strung: What does it take to win the Menuhin Competition?" BBC. Retrieved 14 May 2016. Competition A member of the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY), the Menuhin Competition runs every two years, each time in a different city with the support of local sponsors. Recent competitions have been live-streamed on the Internet. The competition is open to vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehudi Menuhin School
The Yehudi Menuhin School is a Specialist school, specialist music school in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. The current director of music is the British classical pianist Ashley Wass. The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, the Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh. It is mainly funded by the Department for Education's Music and Dance Scheme, by philanthropic foundations, by donations and bequests from individuals, and by regular support from the Friends of the Yehudi Menuhin School. Yehudi Menuhin founded the school to provide an environment and tuition for musically gifted children from all over the world to pursue their love of music, develop their musical potential, and achieve standards of performance on stringed instruments and piano at the highest level. Today's School pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mnuchin
Mnuchin is a family name, derived from the Jewish female given name ''Menucha'' (''Menuha, Minucha, Minicha'', depending on dialect), and may refer to: *Steven Mnuchin, American banker, film producer, political fundraiser, and 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury *Robert Mnuchin, American banker, art dealer and gallerist *Moshe Menuhin, born Moshe Mnuchin, the great-great-grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism. See also *Menuhin Menuhin or Menuchin is the surname of: *Hephzibah Menuhin (1920–1981), American-Jewish concert pianist * Joel Ryce-Menuhin (1933–1998), Jungian psychologist * Linda Menuhin (born 1950), Iraqi-born Israeli journalist, editor, and blogger ... {{surname Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
