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Yehudi Menuhin [1916-1999] American
Rank: 101
Musician, Violinist


Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin OM KBE was 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.


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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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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.
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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.
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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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