Only Connect - Edward Elgar <> Yehudi Menuhin
How are these sitters connected?
Sir Edward Elgar, Bt
by William Rothenstein
1917
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Eric William Fenby; Yehudi Menuhin
by Unknown photographer
1970s
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The connection
Edward Elgar conducted a recording with 16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin of his Violin Concerto. This offered new, youthful optimism, while reaching out to the previous century.
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