Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now
Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now is an organization that violinist Yehudi Menuhin started in England in 1977. His aim was to get music out of the concert halls and bring it to places where otherwise no music can be heard. The aim of this project is to bring classical music closer to people who cannot go to concerts themselves.
history
Yehudi Menuhin himself played in military hospitals during the Second World War and later for the survivors of the concentration camps , including the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . During the apartheid period , he gave concerts in South Africa for black South Africans who were denied access to concert halls, despite the threat of punishment. Since Yehudi Menuhin was equally concerned with promoting young, talented artists, he combined these two concerns with the establishment of his non-profit organization Live Music Now .
Working method
Exclusively voluntary members organize these concerts in social institutions such as hospitals, old people's homes, disabled facilities or prisons. For these people music can be a help, a bridge to communication .
These non-public concerts are played by young musicians who are not only talented, but also have the interest, the sensitivity and the charisma for performing in the respective environment. Making music in front of an unfamiliar audience is an important experience for her on the way to human and artistic maturity. The musicians have the opportunity to practice the art of performing and to make contact with the audience. The musicians are selected by a jury consisting of university professors according to strict musical criteria and included in the funding of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now . The artists receive a scholarship financed from donations for the concerts.
Live Music Now in German-speaking countries
In Germany, the first association was founded in 1992 in Munich , now the association is in 20 German cities and regions ( Augsburg , Berlin , Dresden , Franconia , Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg , Hamburg , Hanover , Cologne , Leipzig , Lübeck , Münsterland , Munich, Upper Rhine , Rhine-Ruhr , Rhine-Neckar , Rostock , Saarland , Stuttgart , Weimar ).
In Austria the association is currently in four cities or federal states, namely in
In Switzerland there is an LMN association in Zurich .