The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency – half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
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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| Birth: | 22nd April, 1916 |
| Death: | 12th March, 1999 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Violinist, Music Conductor |
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Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin was an American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985.
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