Great women and men are not quickly forgotten. However, ever so often I reminder is in order:
Yehudi Menuhin grew up in San Francisco, where he studied violin from age four and where his performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at age seven caused a sensation.
Later, he studied in Paris under the violinist and composer Georges Enesco, who deeply influenced his playing style and who remained a lifelong friend.
As a teenager he toured widely, winning admiration both for his technical proficiency and for his musical interpretation.
In 1936 he retired from performing for 18 months of study, then resumed concert activity. During World War II Menuhin performed some 500 concerts for Allied troops, and in 1945 he and composer Benjamin Britten went to Germany to perform a series of concerts, including several concerts given at Bergen-Belsen for recently liberated inmates of that concentration camp.
Here is the late Yehudi Menuhin performing the second movement of the violin concerto #5 by Mozart:
