These are some clips of Evelyn Glennie, an amazing musician who has been deaf from the age of six (and who went to my high school!) jamming on Sesame Street and in an old factory. Thanks to Santiago for sharing the first clip with me.
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Evelyn really broke the mould by overcoming such an obstacle as deafness to become a world-renowned musician.
Can you think of anyone else who has overcome similar difficulties to achieve great things? Do you think we should respect Evelyn for what she achieved in overcoming her disability, or should we treat her like any other musician and judge her on her talents alone?
Chris.
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Evelyn really broke the mould by overcoming such an obstacle as deafness to become a world-renowned musician.
Can you think of anyone else who has overcome similar difficulties to achieve great things? Do you think we should respect Evelyn for what she achieved in overcoming her disability, or should we treat her like any other musician and judge her on her talents alone?
Chris.
I think we must talk about Ludwig Van Beethoven because he was deaf too (not all his life) and he managed to be a really successful composer!
ReplyDeleteThere are several stories about this, it was said that he realized when someone had done a bad move or had played the wrong note just with seeing him/her.
For exaple, one of the most known symphony is the ninth and he produced it when he was deaf!
It is pretty impressive, isn't it?
I was really impressed by Evelyn's videos. She's a great musician!
ReplyDeleteAnother one who has achieved great thing overcoming difficulties is Tony Meléndez. He's a Nicaraguan guitar player and singer, who has no arms.
His amazing story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF9wo9sVn2c
Playing "let it be" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuIkrsdrJLY&feature=fvst
An incredible story Sebastián!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that.
Steve