Menuhin

Menuhin begins his book as a man looking back on the past he has traversed. He notes that while his life choices are his own, there were many factors outside of him that contributed to his success. One, if not the most important, “happy accident” of his life was his family. He admits immediately that “Much of my life’s design was laid before I was born” (Menuhin 3). Menuhin was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants and he attributes his success not only to the genius he was endowed with at birth, but his family’s nurturing of his genius. Indeed, his parents played an integral role in the raising of him and his sisters: “My mother was twenty, my father twenty-three when they began, with my arrival, to subordinate their own interests to their children’s. . . . Twice my father was to abandon a career on my account--in 1917 when he forsook his university studies to earn

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was important that he play there because “Berlin was then the musical capital of the ‘civilized’ world” (Menuhin 94). He was received with an enthusiastic response from the crowd. Perhaps the most unforgettable aspect of this enthusiastic response was the compliment paid to him by Einstein, who was present at the concert: “what. . .I most clearly remember of the concert’s aftermath is Albert Einstein’s coming in directly from the stage--he had not troubled to go round the back way--hugging me, with an exclamation of astronomically disproportionate immensity: “Now I know there is a God in heaven!’” (Menuhin 96). Einstein’s religious faith has always been a stumbling block for intellectuals who have a hard time seeing how a scientist can believe something that is not supported by empirical data. Well now it appears that the mystery of Einstein’s faith has been uncovered. Einstein did not make a leap of faith, but rather he was furnished with empirical data proving the existence of God in the form of the 13 year old Yehudi Menuhin. Needless to say, the positive aspects of his early life fueled Menuhin’s many accomplishments. Of these accomplishments “one shines forth in my memory with particular glory,” Menuhin states in
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)