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The sound of music
Rush hour crowds jostly for position on the underground train platform. A slight girl, looking younger than her seventeen years , was nervous yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the approaching train. It was her first day at the prestigious royal academy of music ? in London and daunting enough for any teenaged fresh a Scottish farm . But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge then most : she was profoundly deaf. Evelyn Glennie 's loss of hearing had been gradual . her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight - year -old Evelyn was waiting to play the piono. ''They called her name and she did't move . Isuddenly rewlised she hadn't heardv ,''says Isabel Glennie. for quite awhile Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness fromfriends and teachers .But by the time she was elevenher marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist .It was then discovred that her hearing was severely impairedas a result of gradual never damage .They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf.'' everything suddenly looked black,'' says Evelyn. But Evelyn was not going to give up .she was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music One day she noticed a girl playing a xylophone and decided that she wanted to play it too.Most of the teachers discouraged jer but percussionist ron forbes spotted her potential.He began by tuning two large drums to different nots. ''Don't listen through you ears,'' he would say '' try to sense it some other way .'' says Evelyn,'' Suddenly I realised Icould feel The higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down .'' Forbes repeated the exercise , and soon evelyn dis covred that she could sense it some other ways ,''says Evelyn,''Suddenly I Realised I could feel the higher drum the waistup and the lower one from,'' suddenly I realised Icould feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down .''forbes repeated the exercise , and the waist up and the lower one from the waist down .''Forbes reseated the exercise ,and soon Evelyn discovedred that she could sense certain nots in diffrent parts of herv body .''Ihad learnt to open my mind and body to sounds and vibration .''the rest was sheer determination and hard .work Shenever looked back from that point onwards . She toured the united kingdom with a youth orchestra and by time she was sixteen , she had decided to make music her life . She auditioned for the royal academy of music and scored one of the highest make in the history of the academy . she gradually moved from orchestral work to Solo performances. At the end of her three- year course ,she had captured most of the top awards. And for all this ,Evelyn Won't accept any hint of hetroic achievement .''If you work hard and know where you are going ,You'll get there .'' And she got right to the top ,the world 's most sought - after multipercussionist with a mastery of some thousand instruments, and hectic international schedule.
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