Some persons are born great. One such boy was Yahudi Manuhin. He started showing great mastery over violin at the age of four. At the age of thirteen he became a legend. Read this report in the Berliner Zeitung, 12 April 1929.
"There steps a fat little blond boy on the podium, and wins at once all hearts as in an irresistably ludicrous way, like a penguin, he alternately places one foot down, then the other. But wait: you will stop laughing when he puts his bow to the violin to play Bach's violin concerto in E major no.2."
(in the Berliner Zeitung, 12 April 1929, quoted in translation from German )
In 1953, Life published photos of him in various esoteric yoga positions. That is a story connected with India.On a visit to his osteopath Menuhin spotted a book about yoga in the waiting room and was intrigued by the subject. He was in India a year later, in 1952 as a guest of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, when he mentioned the book and was introduced to BKS Iyengar. Their first meeting was intended to be brief but turned into a three and a half hour session. Menuhin described the trouble he was having sleeping and his feeling of constant fatigue to Iyengar who put him in Savasana and had him dozing away in a few minutes. The violinist felt the physical benefits of yoga from that first meeting and the close friendship between the two men developed over decades lasting until Menuhin’s death in 1999.
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