Talk:Yehudi Menuhin

Ravi Shankar?

I believe a reference to his historic and groundbreaking recording sessions with Pandit Ravi Shankar ("East Meets West") should be added to the "world interactions" section. Calaf 22:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

WW2

I removed the sentence "he did this because..." because I thought it wasn't objective - unless there's a citation for it. However, because of my poor keyboard positioning I hit save page before leaving an edit summary. Sorry about that. If you guys want to include that sentence go ahead, but I think it should be cited and based on fact.

Nationality

I'm almost certain it isn't possible for a non-British citizen to be made a life peer, so he must have become a British citizen. Chicheley 12:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

On the dismissal of his son

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1872400,00.html "as head of the German branch of his father's foundation because of his extreme right-wing views....

"Gerard Menuhin, 57, caused uproar by suggesting that Germany was being blackmailed by an international Jewish conspiracy preying on the country’s war guilt."

“An international lobby of influential people and organisations is trying to keep the Germans under pressure . . .”

“Some nations — mainly America, but Europeans too — are profiting from an obedient Germany . . . Those claiming to speak in the name of (Holocaust) victims have better networks than those representing other groups of survivors. Just think of the survivors of murdered Cambodians, American Indians or the Armenians. I am not the only Jew who thinks in this way . . .”

"Mr Menuhin outed himself as a clear sympathiser with the neo-Nazi cause in two published interviews this month.... (he) has a regular column in the Munich-based ultra-nationalist National Zeitung".

knighthood=Sir

If he received an honorary nighthood in his lifetime, should the article title include be "Sir Yehudi Menuhin"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elliotb2 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 10 September 2006

I'm pretty sure you're right, but I've seen him referred as Baron and Lord also... I don't know what's right O Violinista 03:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

He received an honorary knighthood in 1965, before he was a British citizen, so was only enetitled to be called "Yehudi Menuhin, KBE". After gaining British citizenship in 1985, his knighthood would have been "upgraded" to a full one, and he would have been Sir Yehudi. In 1993, he was made a life peer with the title Lord Menuhin. The Wikipedia convention is to use the latest title at the start of the article, and if someone is both a peer and a knight, not to include "Sir". JRawle (Talk) 21:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Albert Einstein's remarks

Is there a realiable source for this "Now I know that there is a God!"? Just asking. 212.16.103.22 (talk) 00:30, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a fabrication.Lestrade (talk) 14:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Lestrade

Menuhin quote

I'd like to include a quote but can't find it or a source. Supposedly when Menuhin realized he had technical faults that were affecting him in the 1940's he said something to this effect: "I was watching myself on film and realized that for twenty years I'd been holding the bow wrong" Saxophobia (talk) 22:01, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

House on Highghate Hill

I have always known that he had a house on Highgate Hill,London and sometimes gave recitals in the church opposite, but I have no proof of this myself, I did attend a concert of his in the church in the 80's — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.81.240 (talk • contribs) 13:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Should we mention his decline?

Yehudi Menuhin's bow arm self-destructed as he grew older. I know that he said it himself several times, although I don't have sources on me, and it shows in some of his later recordings. I honestly think that this should be mentioned somewhere, as well as speculation as to why it happened. If a section on this is created, I can't see how it would be high-quality without good sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.137.231 (talk) 19:34, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

We most certainly should NOT include speculation as to that or anything else. But if there are well-sourced cites about the fact of the decline, or about the properly identified cause (not speculative ones), then they can go in. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 19:50, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

I read somewhere online that Menuhin says what caused his decline in his autobiography. By speculation, I didn't mean to say that "some people think ..., while others think..." What I meant was well-supported and sourced conclusions that may contradict each other, as I believe there are some. But I lack the sources. If I get them, I'll run them through here before I edit anything, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.137.231 (talk) 01:06, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Bath Festival

Should the article mention Menuhin's role as artistic director of the Bath Festival Orchestra from 1959-68. It is for that contribution he was made a Freeman of the City. Jeremybennett (talk) 18:13, 24 August 2011 (UTC)