Ustad Bismilla Khan

1. CHAPTER 2 : The Sound of
MusiC -PART-1-
DEBORA COWLEY
SANEESH M S. PGT English
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2. DEBORAH COWLEY
Deborah (Mason) Cowley is a freelance writer and broadcaster. She grew up in
Toronto, graduated from the University of Western Ontario and moved to Ottawa
to work for the Unitarian Service Committee. She spent two years with UNHCR
(United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in Beirut before moving back to Ottawa
and a job with CIDA. As she traveled the world with her diplomat husband, she
worked as a reporter for CBC radio in Washington, D.C. and on a posting to Cairo,
she worked on several TV documentaries for CBC’s Man Alive. Also in Egypt, she
wrote the first official guide book to Cairo since Baedeker’s guide in the 1940’s.
Subsequent postings in London and Brussels gave her the chance to write articles
for the British and International editions of Reader’s Digest. Research for these
took her to Kenya to report on AMREF’s Flying Doctors, to Bangalore, India with
ORBIS’ team of eye doctors working out of a DC10, to Northern Uganda to
interview Dr. Lucille Teasdale, to Tanzania to meet chimpanzee guru, Jane Goodall
in her lakeside home and to Stockholm to interview Queen Sylvia of Sweden.

3.  This part of the story is about a Scottish girl, named
Evelyn. She was very fond of music. She lost her
hearing power at a young age. • It was first noticed
when she was eight years old. By eleven years, she was
completely deaf, due to nerve damage.

4.  Evelyn Glennie didn’t give up hope and never looked
back. She was determined to lead a normal life and
pursue her interest in music. Once she saw a girl
playing xylophone and decided to play it. Most of the
teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes
encouraged her. • He made her learn music, by making
her feel different notes in her body.

7.  When she plays the xylophone, she can sense the
sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By
leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances
(sounds) flowing into her body.

8.  On a wooded platform, she removes her shoes so that
the vibration pass through her bare feet and up her
legs. • Evelyn is a perfect example that disability can
not stop a person to achieve if she is determined and
works hard towards it. She earned many awards. She
had given enormous pleasure to millions.

9.  The rest was sheer determination and hard work. She
travelled the United Kingdom with a youth orchestra
and by the 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
marks in the history of academy

10.  She gradually left orchestral work and started giving
solo performances. At the end of her three years’
course, she had received most of the top awards. • She
explains that music flows through every part of her
body. It tingles in the skin, her cheekbones and even in
her hair.

11. “Evelyn Glennie Listens
to Sound without
Hearing it.

12. She was not born deaf It was
first noticed when she was eight
years old. By eleven years, she
was completely deaf

13. It” throws light on the life by
famous Scottish multi-
percussionist Ron Forbes

14. The struggles she
faced helped her to
become a successful
musician.

15. She is a talented
performer who knows
how to play several
instruments perfectly.

17. Evelyn was not born
deaf, but she lost
her hearing ability by
the time she was
eleven years old..

18. Evelyn continued to
scale newer heights
ever since and when
she auditioned at the
Royal Academy of

19. She scored one of the
highest marks in the
history of the music
academy.

20. She received several
laurels, accolades and
awards for her
extraordinaire par
excellence performances
on the global platform.

21. In 1991, the Royal
Philharmonic Society
honoured her with the
prestigious ‘Soloist of
the Year Award’.

22. Ann Richlin of the Beethoven
Fund for Deaf Children stated that
Evelyn is a beaming inspiration to
the specially-abled people. Thus,
Evelyn Glennie continues to set
an example by motivating
everyone around her with her
determination and delights
millions of people with her
outstanding performances

23. Thank you.
Have a wonderful day