EVELYN GLENNIE THE DEAF MUSICIAN

Rush our crowd jostal the position on the underground train platform a slide girl looking younger than at 17 years was nervous yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the vibrations of the approaching train. it was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of music in London and daunting in a for any teenager fresh from Scottish from but this Aspiring musician face a bigger challenge than most she was profoundly these.

Evelyn Glannie laws of hearing had been gradual her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the 8 year old evelyn was waiting to play the piano they called her name and she did not move I suddenly realised she hadn't heard says Isabel Glannie for quite while Avalon manage to conceal her drawing deepness from friends and teachers but by the time she was 11 her marks had deteriorated and administrative argued her parents to take her to a specialist it was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage they were advised that she should be fitted with hearing AIDS and send to his school for the deep everything suddenly look back says Evelyn

But availin was not going to give up she was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music one day she not is they girl playing Xolo phone and decided that she want to play it two most of the teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Fobes spotted her potential he begin to tuning two large drum to different notes don't listen to it through your ear he would say try to sense it some other way the higher drum from the waste up to and the lower one from the waste downforbes repeated the exercise and soon evil and discovered that she could send certain notes in different parts of our body I had to open my mind and body to sounds and vibration the rest was sheer determination and hard work.

She never looked back from the point onward sheet told the United Kingdom with the youth orchestra and by the time she was 16 she had decided to make music her life she audition for the Royal Academy of Music and code one of the highest mark in the history of the Academy she gradually move from orchestral work to solo performances at the end of her 3 courses she captured most of the top awards

And for all this Evelyn won't accept any hint of heroic achievement if you work hard and no where you are going you will get there and she got right to the top the world's most proud after multi percussionist with the master of some thousand instruments and hectic International schedule

It is intriguing to watch Evelyn function so effortlessly without hearing in our 2 hour discussion she never miss they word man with bushi build give me trouble she laugh it is not just watching the lips it's the whole face especially the eyes she speak flawlessly with this Cottage list my speech is clear because I could hear till I was 11 she says but that doesn't explain how she manage to learn French and master basic Japanese

As for music explain it pores in through every part of my body it tingles in my skin my cheap bones and even in my hairs when she plays the xylophone she can sense the sound passing up the strings into a finger tips by learning again the drums she can feel the resonance flowing into her body only wooden platform she removes her shoes so that the vibration pass through and up her legs

Not surprisingly Evelyn delights her audience in 1991 she was presented with the Royal philharmonic societies prestigious soloist is of the Year award says master percussionist James blade God may have taken her hearing but has given her back something extraordinary what we hear she feels for more deeply then any of us that is why she expresses music so beautifully

Evelyn confaces that she is something of a work a holic I have just got to work of an harder than classical musicians but the rewards are enormous apart from the regular concerts avalan also give free concert in prisons and hospitals she also gives hi priority to classes for young musicians and richlin of the Beethoven fund for the children says she is shining inspiration

for the children this he that there is no where that they can not go

Evelyn Glannie has already a campillized more than most people twice age she has brought percussion to the front of the orchestra and demonstrated that it can be very moving she has given inspiration to those who are handicapped people who look to her and say if she can do it I can and not the least she has given enormous pleasure to millions.

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