Only Connect - Yehudi Menuhin <> Frederic Delius
How are these sitters connected?
Eric William Fenby; Yehudi Menuhin
by Unknown photographer
1970s
NPG x27595
Group including Frederick Delius and Philip Arnold Heseltine
by Ernest Procter
1929
NPG 4975(8)
The connection
The assistance of Eric Fenby enabled the Frederick Delius to continue to compose despite blindness in later life. Delius’s works continued to be played and promoted by the violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Ralph Holmes.
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