Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin OM KBEwas an American-born violinist and conductor, who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth22 April 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.
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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.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
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