News about Yehudi Menuhin

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Simon Franses, a veteran of selling historic works to the rich and famous at the country's first purpose-built tapestry and textile gallery, appears in a very different context. I can reveal that he has been embroiled in a $1 million court fight over a series of tapestries involving fellow collector and dealer Nathan Levi. Franses, the owner of the prestigious S Franses gallery in St James', London, fell out with Levi, who claims they settled their dispute over S Franses Ltd's purchase of 27 of his tapestries and carpets. According to a High Court writ, Franses already had the bulk of the items in his possession, and Levi was to return the rest to him by the end of March 2020, with Franses agreeing to pay 1 million euros.

In 2013, Nigel Kennedy (main), the school's founding music director, had said that pianist Marcel Gazelle, a former student, assaulted students as young as ten years ago. The long-awaited study by the government's nationwide Independent Inquiry into Sexual Abuse revealed in March that other allegations had surfaced, as well as the school's reported reluctance to move forward. 14 former students have spoken out, releasing reports of sexual, emotional, and physical assault against 15 members of staff that are thought to have occurred between 1964 and 2007. The Department of Education sent a letter in 2019 accusing the Surrey-based school (inset) of "serious administrative shortcomings" related to safeguarding.