Yehudi Menuhin
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"Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin", Order of Merit/OM, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire/KBE 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. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.

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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.

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

She plays with more integrity than any young violinist I have ever heard.

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.