The Sound of Music
Introduction:
In this lesson, we have two parts and discussed the two great achievers in their life. At first, we spoke about "Evelyn Glennie Listens to sound without Hearing It". Later, in the second part, we spoke about "The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan". In this article, we are going to see the biography of the famous musician "Evelyn Glennie".
Summary:
The started with the background that a girl who was standing in the railway station and waiting for the train. It was her first day at the "Royal Academy of Music" in London. The bitter truth was she was deaf. She could feel the vibration sounds of the train.
Evelyn Glennie deafness was not by birth. It was gradually decreasing. Her mother remembers, When she was eight years old when the music teacher called her, she didn't turn to her. At that time only her mother came to realise that Evelyn was not able to hear. Somehow she managed to conceal her deafness from her teachers and friends. But at the age of eleven, due to her low marks in the subject, her headmistress asked her mother to take her child to the doctor. That time only they know that the hearing nervous were severely damaged. The doctor advised Evelyn to fitted with the hearing aid. And asked her mother to send her daughter to a deaf school. "Everything suddenly looked black", says Evelyn.
She was not ready to give up, so she tried to behave like a common girl. Even though she was deaf, she had a love for music. One day she saw a girl who was playing the Xylophone and she was really impressed. So she decided to play the same instrument. All of them discourage her except percussionist Ron Forbes. He was the one who knows her potential in music. He decided to teach her musical instrument. At first, he asked her "Don't listen through your ears, try to sense it some other way".Then Evelyn, "Suddenly I realised I could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down". He was repeatedly given the exercise to her. Soon she discovered her body parts were a sense of it.
When she was sixteen she roamed around the United Kingdom as a youth orchestra. She scored one of the highest marks in Royal Academy in London. She had broken the record. Later, she moved from a youth orchestra to a solo performer. She was awarded most of the precious awards.
Evelyn Glennie had no hope of heroic achievement. Her belief was "If you work hard and know where you are going, you'll get there." She had a positive mind and more curiosity towards the instruments. Throughout the discussion, she didn't miss a single word. She laughed and said, "Men with bushy bead give me trouble."
In her interview, Deborah Cowley forgot to ask how she learned French and basic Japanese. But Evely said that "My speech is clear because I could hear till I was eleven". According to her vision in music, she said, "It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair." Whenever she played the instruments, she feels it in her body. In the wooden stadium, she used to remove her shoes to feel the vibration in her legs. Her master praises her, "God may have taken her hearing but he has given her back something extraordinary. What e hear, she feels far more deeply than any of us. That is why she expresses music so beautifully."
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