Frases de Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, también conocido como Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon,[1]​ OM, KBE , fue un violinista y director de orquesta nacido en Estados Unidos, con nacionalidades suiza y británica , de origen ruso . Menuhin es considerado uno de los más grandes violinistas del siglo XX.

Presidió el Consejo internacional de música en la Unesco y fue un activo defensor de causas humanitarias.

Recibió el Premio de la Paz de los libreros alemanes en 1979, en 1991 el Premio de la Fundación Wolf de las Artes de Jerusalén, en 1994 una Condecoración Konex otorgada por la Fundación Konex , y, junto con el ruso Mstislav Rostropóvich, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia en 1997. Fue alumno de yoga de B. K. S. Iyengar, de quien decía que fue su mejor maestro de violín.

✵ 22. abril 1916 – 12. marzo 1999
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Yehudi Menuhin: Frases en inglés

“Now I know there is a God in heaven.”

Said to be famously attributed to Albert Einstein after hearing him play
1999: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin dies

“It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.”

On proper holding of the bow
Fuente: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, p. 100

“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.”

Fuente: Tessa Souter Anything I Can Do... You Can Do Better: How to unlock your creative dreams and change your life http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GJzWPzwI79kC&pg=PA156, Random House, 31 July 2011, p. 156

“To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.”

Fuente: Rene J. Smith The Spirit of Flight http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Euu4e-4qNAUC&pg=PT30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 15 January 2012, p. 30

“Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.”

Fuente: U S Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=feq-KS57zeUC&pg=PA7471, Government Printing Office, 2009 , p. 7471

“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.”

Fuente: The complete violinist: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qC0xAQAAIAAJ, Summit Books, 1 April 1986, p. 95

“Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature”

Quote from his autobiography,Unfinished Journey”
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

“I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.”

Fuente: The compleat violinist: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qC0xAQAAIAAJ, Summit Books, 1 April 1986, p. 79

“We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.”

Fuente: Sushama Londhe A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture http://books.google.co.in/books?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ, Pragun Publications, 2008, p. 341

“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”

When he realized that his shortcoming was knowing the basics to teach in a class.
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

“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?”

Fuente: Kevin Hindle, Kim Klyver Handbook of Research on New Venture Creation http://books.google.co.in/books?id=nFb7U0qKJNgC&pg=PA79, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 January 2011, p. 79

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