Message from Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Music Director and
Conductor
It is heartening to realise that this symphonic flowering of the great Asian
cultures has taken place in only three years! It can only be that the Asian
Youth Orchestra is the answer to the prayers and longings of my young
colleagues throughout this vital part of the world.
I shall never forget the dedication and the ecstatic quality of the young
people I conducted two years ago as they were making music. The thoughts and
emotions, shared by those musicians and audiences throughout Asia, carried
us to visions and concepts which remain today far ahead of our struggling
lives.
I am delighted that my inspired colleague, Lukas Foss, with whom I have
shared many musical occasions, always young in spirit and with an open ear
for every style of expression, will lead the AYO in 1992, and I wish him
and David Alan Miller, the greatest success.
Best wishes for this third musical celebration of the Asian Youth
Orchestra.
This article is taken from the AYO 1992 souvenir programme book.
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