The sound of Music - Important points

 The Sounds of Music 

Part I 

Evelyn Glennie Listens to Sound without Hearing It 

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• Her full name Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie 
• Born - 19 July 1965 -  Scotland 
• At the age of 17, she was standing on the railway platform, which was her first day in Royal Academy of Music, in London 
• Evelyn's mother name: Isabel Glennie 
• Evelyn's father name: Herbert Arthur Glennie 
• At the age of 8, her mother came to know about Evelyn's deafness
• At the age of 11, her school headmistress asked her mother to take Evelyn to the specialist.
• Evelyn had a strong decision to lead the normal life
• Evelyn noticed a girl, she was playing the Xylophone 
• Only one teacher encouraged Evelyn who was Ron Forbes 
• At the age of 16, she toured the United Kingdom with a young orchestra 
• She scored one of the highest marks in the Royal Acadamy of Music in London 
•  Known languages - French and master basic Japanese
• Like blood, music was flowing in her body 
• 1991 - Royal Philharmonic Society's Percussionist Soloist of the Year Award 
• She was giving free concerts in prisons and hospitals. 
• She was the real inspiration for more deaf children 

Quotations 

• "They called her name and she didn't move. I suddenly, realised she hadn't heard." - Isabel Glennie 
• "Everything suddenly looked black" - Evelyn Glennie 
• "Don't listen through your ears" - Ron Forbes 
• "Suddenly I realised I could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down." - Evelyn Glennie 
• I had learnt to open my mind and body to sounds and vibrations."- Evelyn Glennie 
• "If you work hard and know where you are going, you'll get there." - Evelyn Glennie 
• "Men with busy beards give me trouble," -  Evelyn Glennie 
• "It is not just watching the lips, it's the whole face, especially the eyes."- Evelyn Glennie 
• "My speech is clear because I could hear till I was eleven"- Evelyn Glennie 
• "It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hairs."- Evelyn Glennie 
• "I've just got to work... often harder than classical musicians. But the rewards are enormous." Evelyn Glennie 
• "She is a shining inspiration for deaf children"- Ann Richlin