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Monday, April 16, 2012
Evelyn Glennie performing...
A friend of mine (he's also a composer and arranger), Ryan Youens, alerted me to a You Tube video of Evelyn Glennie playing a piece called Libertango. It's a wonderfully evocative piece, not sharp in the rhythmic sense in a way many tangos are, but warm and tender, with resonating bass notes rumbling along underneath. And all done with four sticks. I think piano playing is difficult sometimes, but creating this sort of music with four quite awkwardly-held sticks is a miracle.
And then, of course, there's the added complication in this performer's case, of being profoundly deaf. She lost her hearing at the age of 12....
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