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OCR: Sir Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin is the most famous musical Sil child prodigy the 20th Century ce He was born in New York in the United States. The composer Ernest Bloch heard him play le a dinner party ae the age of 7 and composed the first piece to be specially written for him It was called Avoda Maurice Ravel. composer lof the Bolero" once burst into one of his violin lessons with new composition dedicated t to him the ink you yet on the page Menuhin gave his first public concert at Carnegie Hall at the age of 11 following it up with performances in Paris Berlin and ondon At the age of 16 he performed and recorded Elgar's Violin Concerto with the composer himself conducting enuhin London