Young yehudi menuhin biography book

Arguably the most famous classical musician of the twentieth century, Yehudi Menuhin has thus far been the subject of just two books that qualify as biographies.

A third, now  published in two parts, has been eleven years in the making. The first 300-page volume traces the Menuhin odyssey from anti-Semitic pogroms of late nineteenth-century Russia to 1947 on the eve of Yehudi's second marriage.

Book Two is now available  and brings the saga to its conclusion with Yehudi's death in Berlin in 1999.

Written by Philip Bailey, who worked on the Menuhin staff in London from 1976 until 1999,  Yehudiana-Reliving the Menuhin Odyssey features:

• accounts of the early lives of Yehudi's formidable parents and their three musically-gifted children interwoven with those of Yehudi's first wife, Australian-born Nola Nicholas, and of dancer Diana Gould;
  
• research into the world of 1930s ballet that has shed new light on Diana's writings on the s