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1916–1999 United States
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and a British citizen in 1985.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years.
Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.
Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature
What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.
Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?
In playing Beethoven the violinist should be a medium. There is little that is personal or that can be reduced to ingratiating sounds, pleasing slides and so on. Everything is dictated by the significance, the weight, structure and direction of the notes and passages themselves.
Many people don't realize that it takes considerably more art & skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. The best possible training for a young violinist is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.
Even at the risk of losing all the golden eggs of the future, I had to find out what made the goose lay those eggs
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
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