Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi? (2016)
1h
Running Time
April 24, 2016Release Date
Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi? (2016)
1h
Running Time
April 24, 2016Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
Yehudi Menuhin was the 20th century's greatest violinist. He was a child prodigy but the man behind the violin was harder to know. Endlessly touring and crossing continents and cultures, his contract with EMI was the longest in the history of the music industry. He took classical music out of the concert hall because he believed music was for everyone and had the power to change lives. An impassioned idealist, Yehudi wanted to give more to the world - he became a tireless fighter for humanitarian issues he believed in. In this film, commemorating the 100th year of his birth, family and close friends recall his extraordinary musical life, in which he embraced jazz and Indian ragas as much as Bach, Beethoven and Bartok. And incredible home movies take us on an intimate behind-the-scenes journey from his childhood in California, to meeting gypsies in Romania and travelling to India and beyond.
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Cast & Crew.

Clemency Burton-Hill
Presenter

Zamira Benthall
Self

Edward Elgar
Self

Krov Menuhin
Self

Tasmin Little
Self

Allen Jenkins
Self

Daniel Hope
Self

Nigel Kennedy
Self

Gordon Back
Self

Christopher Hope
Self

Anoushka Shankar
Self

Emma Cahusac
Executive Producer

John Veal
Editor

Philip Armstrong Dampier
Executive Producer

Yehudi Menuhin
Self
