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Royal Festival Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall Pureell Room Take the pulse every Friday JewishChronicle A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin South Bank Centre, 26 November 2000 Message from HRH The Prince of Wales ................... ........... ..... ... ................... 3 JMI Salutes Yehudi Menuhin ................................................... .. .......... 5 Menuhin's Musical Moments: Pieces especially associated with Yehudi ..................................... 5 10.00am Purcell Room, Joseph Hector Fiocco: Allegro from suite No. 1 in G major 6 1.oopm Purcell Room, Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the style ofPugnani 6 2.15pm Foyer of Queen Elizabeth Hall, J. S. Bach: Praeludiumfi'om Fartita in E 6 2.45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Ernest Bloch: Abodah 7 5.oopm Purcell Room, Franz Schubert: Ave Maria 7 7.45 pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wolfgang Amadeu Mozart: two movements from the Sonata for violin and keyboard (K378) 7 8.oopm Purcell Room, Antonio Bazzini: La Ronde des Lutins 8 1o.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Malcolm inger: Elegy 8 Programme ............................................................................. 9 10.ooam Purcell Room, Film: Yehudi Menuhin: Violin ofthe Century 9 1.00pm Purcell Room, Lecture: Yehudi Menuhin: The Legend and the Legacy 9 2.45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra and Soloists 10 The Soloists 11 The Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra 12 The Yehudi Menuhin School 12 5.oopm Purcell Room, Live Mu ic Now! 13 The Performers 14 Live Music Now! 15 7.45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Ashdod hamber Orche tra of Israel 16 Programme notes 17 The Performers 19 8.oopm Purcell Room, Film: YeIJUdi Menuhin: Violin ofthe Century 9 Foyer Events ........................................................................... 20 2.15pm Official opening of the Video Box 20 2.15pm Book Signing 20 6.45pm Foyer performance: live Music Now! 20 A Virtuoso's Collection so ld at Sotheby's .............................. ................ ..... .... 21 Forthcoming Events .................................................... ................. 22 Jewish Music In stitute at SOAS ................... .. ................... ............ ........... 23 Acknowledgements ....................................................................... 24 Cover photo: Virginia Schmldt • • ~ Im! JewishChronicle E3 M Lord Menuhin with HRH The Prince of Wales and lan Stoutzker OBE, chairman of Live Music Now, and the birthday cake at the 20th anniversary of Live Music Now at the Barbican Centre, London, 19 June 1997 Lord Menuhin, President of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust, with (from left to right) Mrs Mildred Loss, widow of Joe Loss, Mrs Geraldine Auerbach, Director of Jewish Music Institute, Professor Israel Adler, Founder Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Alexander Knapp, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London, Sir Tim Lankester, Director of SOAS, Jennifer Jankel, daughter of the late Joe Loss, Dr Richard Widdess, Head of Department of Music, SOAS, at the inauguration of the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London, 21 Febrary 1999, Lord Menuhin's last public appearance in the UK ST. JAMES'S PALACE I am delighted and proud to be the Patron of a day paying tribute to a dear friend - the great musician, humanist and educator, Yehudi Menuhin . So many of his family and friends, as well as members of the organisations he initiated and encouraged, have come together under one roof to celebrate his great contribution to life and music. It is poignant to think that Yehudi, who was born to Russian Jewish parents, whose life touched so many people across the globe, spent his last public appearance in London with the Jewish Music Institute, as its President, bringing Jewish music studies to SOAS and presiding over an evening devoted to Russian Jewish music. This day, rganised by the Jewish Music Institute, is a wonderful idea and a fitting way to remember a remarkable man . I am extremely sorry that I cannot be with you in person, but I send my best wishes to all those organisations that Yehudi Menuhin created, and which are represented in the Tribute today, as they continue to grow from strength to strength. His memory will remain an inspiration to us all and I am especially.proud to be associated, as patron, with one of his inspired ideas, "Live Music Now!" Like all of you at this event, I miss o much Yehudi's warmth and humanity and especially his occasionally indecipherable, but always passionately enthusiastic letters ... JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE SOAS Rabbi Julia Neuberger Honorary Joint Presidents Victor Tunkel Li brary Consultant Lord and Lady Rayne Lady Solti Rev Reuben Turner Mr Teddie Reitma n Leopold de Rothschild. CBE Benefactors Mrs Jackie Rose nfe ld OBE Mr and Mrs James Rothman Honorary Vi ce Presi dents Mr Ronald Auerbach Mr Stephen Ru bin oavid and Tanya Josefowitz Mrs Rene Gilmont and Mrs Carme l Tottler Yad Hanadiv Mr and Mrs Seymour Saideman Mr and Mrs Brian Sandleson Founder Fellows Mr Ralph Schiller for Cissie Schiller Bertie and ooris Black Supporters Bnai Brith Leo Baeck Men's Lodge Mr and Mrs W Sharron Bnai Brith Leo Baeck Women's Lodge Mr and Mrs Nicholas Springer Joint Ch airmen Mr and Mrs Raymond Burton Mr and Mrs G J Wes t Rosa Lipworth West Londo n Synagogue Jonathon Lyons Mr and Mrs Stanley Cohen Ms Terri Grand Mrs Sally Whyte Mr and Mrs Michael Heller Ms Tanya Winchester for Mrs Schuster Director Mr Fred Worms OBE and Mrs Worms Geraldine Auerbach MBE Mr and Mrs Robert Jankel Sir Stanley and Lady Kalms Mr lan Karten MBE and Mrs Karten Patrons Founder Members Mr and Mrs Ronald Cohen Mr and Mrs Herbert Kretzmer Larry Adler Mr and Mrs Rudi Goldsmith Liberal Jewish Synagogue The Baro ness Brigstocke Or and Mrs Ralph Kohn Mrs Mildred Loss Lord Brittan of Spennithorne Sir Jack and Lady Lyons Mr and Mrs Gerald Ronso n and Lady Brittan His Hon Israel Finestein QC Lord and Lady Marks Mr Freddie Rose Mr and Mrs Clive Marks Mr and Mrs oavid Rosenfelder Rabbi oavid Goldberg Mr and Mrs Allan Morgenthau Sir Sigmund Sternberg. OStJ KCSG Mr Lionel Gordon Chairm n, Jewish Chro nicle Mr Leopold de Rothschild Lilian Hochhauser FRC M Contributors Victor Hochhauser CBE Emanuel Hurwitz CBE Trustees Mr Jarvis Astaire Lady Jakobovi ts Lady Lipworth Ms Sandra Blackman Sir Tim Lankester Jonathon Lyons Bnai Brith First Unity Lodge Rabbi Or Abra ham Levy Jarvis Astaire Mr Arthur and Or Joan Bovarnick Spike Milligan CBE Jennifer Jankel Mr Paul Brett Sir Claus Moser KCB CBE Sylvia Lewin Mr Robert Brody Mme Zara Nelsova Mildred Loss Mr George Balint Ahuva Oren Cultural Attac he Israeli Embassy Professor Malcolm Troup Mr and Mrs Ernest Bello Chief Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks Emeritu s Professor of Music , City Universi ty Mr George Benjamin Seymour Saideman Judith Unikower Ms Sandra Blackman Rev Malcolm Weisman OBE Mrs Susi Bradfield President , Bn i Brith Europe Mr Harold Cantor Michael Tilson Thomas Jo Wagerman OBE Management Committee Or oavid Cohen President, Boa rd of Deputi es of British Jews Adrian oavis Prof and Mrs S I Cohen Malcolm Williamson OA Richard Toeman Mrs Shimona Cowan Mr and Mrs oavid oatnow Master of th e Qu een's Music oavid Stone Sir Harry ojanogly Registered Consultants Mrs Leila Foux Charity 328228 Vivienne Bellos Lord and Lady Haskel Mrs Jennifer Jankel Company 2387749 Prof oavid Bloch Tet Aviv Sydney Fixman Mr and Mrs lan Jay Jewish Mu sic Institute John S Hill Technica l and lighting desig n Mr Jack Lass Mrs Renee Lauffer School of Oriental and African Studies Or Tsiporah Jochsburger Je ru salem University of London. Thornhaugh Street Alexander Knapp Or and Mrs oavid Lee Mrs Manja Leigh Russell Square. London WC1H OXG Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish MUSIC, Mr and Mrs oavid Lewis T 020 7898 4308 F 020 7898 4309 SOAS, Universi ty of London E j ewishmusiclCljmi.org,uk Or Neil W, Levin New York Mrs Mildred Loss www.jmi.org.uk Malcolm Singer Mr H Mayer Mr Willie Nagel 4 South Bank Centre, 26 November 2000 mu ic' capacity not only to change a per on' mood but even t increa e ne' intellectual power. Yehudi knew all that in tinctively and felt that unle he did omething, future generation might be impoveri hed. He wa ad about the trivial fodder that i turned ut to mo t young people on televi ion and other media and he devot- d him elf to giving young p ople omething beautiful and uplifting at which to aim. Yehudi wa the fir t virtuo 0 to bring the mu LC of non-we t rn cu lture to the concert cage in the We t. He performed with uch figur a Ravi hankar, playing Indian raga, and tephane rappelli, the jazz violini t, playing arrangements for rwo violin f p pular how tune. Today 'world mu ic' i a hu ge indu try but Yehudi' wa a lone voice that carved the channel through which the Yehudi Menuhin with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sir Sigmund mu ic n w Row. Sternberg, Chairman of the Executive of the International Council of How fitting, then, that he wa involved, a Honorary Pre ident Christians and Jews and winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in f the Jewi h Mu ic Heritage Tru t (now the Jewi h Mu ic Religion, on the occasion of the concert organised by the Jewish Music In titute), in eeing Jewi h mu ic take it place together with the Heritiage Trust, Sacred Music of Two Traditions at St Paul's Cathedral, 1996, mu ical culture of the world at the choolof riental and African where Menuhin conducted Ernest Sloch's Sacred Service. tudie ( A), Univer ity of London, in February 1999. He wa intere ted in the development of Jewi h mu ic alo ng with the music 'Ever since I can remember, I have tried to relate the beauty of it neighbour in the Middle Ea t and in the ancient and mod rn ofgreat music to the harmony oflife' world.