Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
MUSIC IS: "A GREAT AID TO DIGESTION" MENUHIN, YEHUDI. Autograph Letter Signed, to NBC Music Supervisor Walter Koons, responding to Koons's question, "What is Music?" 2 pages, narrow 4to, written on two sheets of "Hotel Ansonia" stationery; minor loss to upper left corner of each page, horizontal folds. New York, 9 March 1933
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". . . We all know what pleasure thousands of people derive from music. It makes some people dance, others march, others cry, it even makes some people sleep, but nobody is left indifferent. It is also a great aid to digestion. Under careful scientific observation, it was proven that cows yield a much greater amount of milk if 'good' music is played! (on the radio). In India, if the flute is played in a certain way, it influences snakes! . . .
"To me, music means what it has meant to all the Ages preceding. It can make me cry, laugh, march, dance, sleep, anything! And it is pretty rotten 'music' and pretty badly played if it leaves me 'cold'! . . ."