Class 9,chepter 2, SOUND OF MUSIC PART-1 Evelyn glenny Long Answer Type Questions
Appreciating the Text II.
Long Answer Type Questions
1. When do we come to know about the girl for the first time? Describe her, and say where was she oin and for what ?
Ans. We come to know about her for the first time when she was on the underground train platform, She was a slight little girl. Though she was seventeen years of age, she looked much and She was nervous yet she was excited. She could feel the vibrations of the approaching train. She was going to the Prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London. It was her first day there.
2.Who Spotted her (Evelyn's) potential? What did he to help her'?
Ans. Seeing a girl playing a xylophone, Evelyn got interested in it, and decided to be a percussionist. But most of her teachers discouraged her. It was Ron Forbes the percussionist, who spotted her potential. To help, he took two large drums to different notes, and advised her to feel them through various parts of her body and not through her ears. Ron kept repeating the exercise and Evelyn began to show progress.
3. Desaibe Evelyn's achievements as a percussionist ?
Ans. Evelyn had begun to show progress from the very beginning when Ron Forbes started teaching her. She began to work hard with firm determination. When she was sixteen, she toured the UK with a youth orchestra. Then She began to give solo performances. Even during her three-year course, she had captured most of the top awards. Then she got right to the top. She mastered some thousand instruments. In 1991 she was presented Saloist of the Year Award, she has given inspiration to handicapped.
4.. How does Evelyn hear music ?
Ans. Music pours in through every part of Evelyn's body. I tingles in the skin, her cheekbones and even in her hair. When she plays the xylophone, She can sense the soun passing up the stick into her fingertips. Even when she leans against the drum, she can feel the resonances flowing.
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