Portrait of Yehudi Menuhin with pianist Adolph Baller, performing in the Aleutian Islands, 1944. Black and white photograph.

image-as-object

Purchased by the Foyle Foundation, Sir John Ritblat HonFRAM and an anonymous donor, February 2004

Foyle Menuhin Archive

Portrait of Yehudi Menuhin with his pianist Adolph Baller, seated at an upright piano. There is a page-turner on Baller's left. Performing at an airbase in Adak, Aleutian Islands, 1944. Menuhin is standing on a small stage flanked by large drawn curtains, with four large arclights, the latter within the audience which comprises American GIs. He is turned to the right, with his face in profile with his bow on the violin. The board behind announces 'The Ripcord Recital'. Black and white photograph laid down on grey mottled card with a film overlay and with a black taped border. Inscribed on the image S.C. Hazzard lower left, and Anno 1944 lower right.

1944

Menuhin describes his experience of playing for the GIs in the Aleutian Island in 'Unfinished Journey', pp 154-5, 156 and 270.

photograph, violinist, pianist, military, war, wartime

printed photograph

paper

Type	Length	Width	Height	Diameter	Unit (length)
item		250	220		mm
item and mount		330	280		mm

2009.170