How to truly listen | Evelyn Glennie

www.ted.com In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
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[@ShobhaRani-f9o]

Class 9 CBSE students here ✋😂

[@JavedBhati-t3c]

Yes😂😂😂

[@JavedBhati-t3c]

Which school are you from? And where?

[@ShobhaRani-f9o]

@@JavedBhati-t3c Presently I'm in 10 standard.. I'm from jammu.. But curently studying in Hyderabad..

[@samareshdas4346]

Yes ❤

[@chhotasinghsingh6650]

😂me also

[@shreya-lz3mw]

I am in 9th standard there's a chapter about her in our book ..you know watching her performing is more wonderful than reading about her 🙀she is awesome

[@bakaxr4675]

In ur English Beehive textbook ??

[@shreya-lz3mw]

@@bakaxr4675 yupp

[@anoopsrivastav1787]

Same here bro 😉

[@user-gu9sk8xk9d]

I'm also here for that chapter

[@yO-dr1xm]

Same😂🚶‍♀️

[@furiousop4051]

anyone after chapter in beehive book class 9. such a true inspiration 🙌🙌

[@badrishkhanna7800]

Yes man😁

[@yashodameena8731]

Yep

[@rumabasak1531]

𝐘𝐞𝐬

[@avneshtheganesh3293]

Mee 🙃💝

[@grizzlybear4426]

Oh yesssss

[@kripashree.c7600]

Iam studying in 9th standard.. We have chapter about Evelyn Glennie... I was so surprised... She is a inspiration for all the childrens ❤️❤️

[@taesvocabulary1771]

I am also here for same reason~~~

[@Ansh_gaming--9911]

My also

[@angelrokhum7773]

Same🙌

[@poopiskimchi6140]

Sammeew.. 👀

[@Drrrrrrrr_123]

Same bro 😁 but because her photo in book is black and white i thought she is no more 😶😶. RELATABLE??

[@ashwinihendre3186]

Any class 9th student watch this video on 2024 😂😂😂

[@zigzagduck952]

I learned that there are three sounds. The one you want to make, the one you actually make and the sound every body else hears. Thanks.

[@dougkeith2047]

That's great. We could add "the sound THEY want tot hear, and the sound they think they hear".

[@gregmcg605]

Everybody doesn't hear the same thing. The sounds are legion.

[@jboy1761]

@nobody8thechicken your preception of you, you, what others think of you

[@jboy1761]

@nobody8thechicken nobody8thechicken think like a book, and how preception is restricting. in the first person (your preception of you) you have bias towards thoughts, and emotion. in the third person, there is bias towards action. to master creativity you understand you, what really is. mastery of expression is to amalgamate information both in the external and internal sense so you can express "you". (understand yourself to express yourself) how you precieve music is greatly affected by your culture and emotion state. so no you don't "hear" the same thing as other people. you can say that its the same sound, as ultimately music is our logical and emotional attempt to impersonate the frequencies of existence. it is tapping into our innate ego,our apprecation of the sound of nature and life, and at its basis without culture we might experience the same sensation but outside of existentialism (even then its debatable) why does it matter? it doesn't, so enjoy it. write and play the experiences you feel, what do you think the 23 year old mechanical engineer from japan felt?, or the 48 year old African American psychiatrist from lousiana?, what does it sound like, the color green? the smell of the ocean? what about the texture of cloth? the taste of toast? the smell of flesh? and honestly he just graduated college, why would the boy raised on the empathetic culture on the coast of the Noto Peninsula throw his entire life way for the taste of his own kind? did he love to much? or was he filled with envy? between insanity and obscurity is genius, im sure you'll find it.

[@gvenkateswarlu1142]

👏👏👏👏

[@pranavmm6660]

I am a 9th grade student at Chennai,India and I'm just amazed to see how effortlessly she is speaking and playing the instruments too. Big hats off to you ma'am 🙏🙏🙏

[@DownundaThunda]

"How about that, can any of you hear that? Well, of course not, I'm not even touching it!" I was literally holding my breath trying to pick up the faintest hint of a sound. XD

[@irchristo]

". . . I was literally holding my breath trying to pick up the faintest hint of a sound." ...and judging myself in case I wasn't able to hear what I should. ~Chris Thompson

[@notagod-5174]

I didn't realize she was deaf the whole time till i looked at comments

[@keajaidunbar4045]

NotAGod - same

[@marcnormandin2877]

How does she have an accent? She sounded scottish

[@frikkieswanepoel5372]

She mentioned it in the bit about her college application but still at first I thought that I misheard or misunderstood. I wouldn't have guessed it though.

[@spookiedukey]

This is my Icon. Fight to the death

[@notagod-5174]

@@spookiedukey to bad... Cuz last time I checked it's my icon

[@morganfisherart]

I love her warm Scottish accent, the way she says "airrth" for earth.

[@WindWolfAlpha]

It's really pleasant to... listen to... isn't it? Lol

[@sara-df9li]

morganfisherart “I imagine a three making that sound “ I love it too

[@fenderstratguy]

Id like to hear her say, “I con’t hold on much longerrr...my dilithium crrystals arre brreakin’ oop!”

[@ColtraneTaylor]

I hate to be contrarian but I can't stand Scottish accents.

[@terabaapseedhemaut21]

Who came here after reading chapter 2 of class 9 😂😎

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

"More dynamic with less effort" This idea has actually really helped me outside music. If something seems difficult or uncomfortable, it could just be you're nervous. Letting yourself relax is sometimes more effective than trying harder.

[@cstar4004]

I almost always do better when Im not even trying, and make all my mistakes when I am trying really hard.

[@partsroz1962]

Lol, its called subtleness. Been around a few years, maybe even before you were born, if you could believe such a time existed...

[@lotharluder2743]

To realy relax is the hardest.

[@lotharluder2743]

Knowledge talks. Wisdome listens. Zitat Jimmy Hendrix.

[@SepticXable]

(in martial arts, too)

[@alakanandasmusic6922]

Seems like everyone here is in 9th standard. Today is 30/05/23.From which year are you?💡

[@xerodelacroix5552]

As a musician who is losing his hearing, this woman is an amazing inspiration.

[@comradedrugs711]

Awe! I hope everything is going well! :3

[@yourhuckleberry6757]

5th symphony

[@zeynepy]

beethoven do you hear me

[@johnboyle3297]

Xero Delacroix you have my empathy I spent many happy years as a drummer and percussionist now have to wear hearing aids in both ears and further couple this with arthritis I was forced to retire.....I hope you fared better

[@aaronm7212]

Give us an update

[@daniel10alien]

She might be deaf, but she can definitely hear better than I can.

[@daniel10alien]

+john doe What kind of weird, always analytical, confuzzled reply to a comment is this?

[@MrThaNima]

+daniel10alien your comment made my day lol

[@ingvarnielsson8872]

daniel10alien ö.

[@carolynbrumfield2880]

daniel10alien

[@mrs.marieantoinettegingers6278]

daniel10alien, when Evelyn was 2. That's when she lost her hearing. And when she was little, she also knew how to talk.

[@thanhmvo]

I was about to watch the news and get angry then I stumble upon this incredible human being. For 34:06 minutes she made me forget the ugliness of the world and now I’m back, its not so ugly anymore.

[@rhythmfield]

Thanh Vo profound comment - thank you

[@Goztw]

Dont watch the news then

[@rhythmfield]

W N worse, they are selling cars - so they need to keep millions of suckers glued, saying “what’s next?? What will the ogre say now??” They lost my viewership years ago, but I’m in the minority - most Americans 40+ stare at the sucker screen nightly (either left or right-strictly divided), entranced, bought, sold.

[@1happyguy823]

You need to stop watching that stuff. lol Warning! The news of this world will only Keep you in fight or flight mode. And in that state you cannot Heal, Grow, Evolve or be Happy! lol

[@pabloplato]

@W N and yet, here you are, on youtube. but it's better than TV, cause you curate your content, right? and it has no nasty algorithms pushing clickbait on you, huh?

[@vedantmahajan9634]

Haha I know you came here after studying the chapter "the sound of music" and you are in 9th class 😂😂😏

[@thecyclonic5856]

Me too my friend

[@drewmackillop]

I was lucky enough to have a one to one lesson with Evelyn when I was in school over 25 years ago, she remains one of the most inspirational people I have ever met! Incredible talent and a really lovely person.

[@fakemaknaejisoo7334]

In India also..... I am in 9th grage and we have a lesson in our book about her .... She is really very Inspiring ❤️

[@nigarara3731]

@@fakemaknaejisoo7334 he's talking about a real lesson of music with her

[@fakemaknaejisoo7334]

@@nigarara3731 I know but i am Just conveying that she inspired the whole world

[@Verdugothewatcher]

Watching this just melted everything I thought I knew about music. What a remarkable human being.

[@lifeofmusic9224]

Realized Music is actually felt, not heard.

[@TsunoFue]

2:47 - Pezzo da Concerto No. 1 by Nebojša Jovan Živković 7:11 - Etude in C Major Op. 6, No. 10 by Clair Omar Musser 13:29 - A Little Prayer by Evelyn Glennie 27:29 - Improvisation on “Michi” by Keiko Abe (Improvisation: Evelyn Glennie) Note: “Michi”, a piece for marimba by Keiko Abe, has sections that are allowed to be improvised. EG usually plays the work with two improvised sections; here she played the latter one.

[@djStrimmer]

TsunoFue thank you 🙏

[@dragoncurveenthusiast]

Thank you so much!

[@KingstonCzajkowski]

Thanks a bunch, had no idea the first piece was a Zivkovic.

[@BrennanYoung]

19:00 "If we see someone in a wheelchair we assume they cannot walk. It may be they can walk three, four, five steps. That - to them - means they can walk. In a year's time it could be two extra steps..."

[@BrennanYoung]

@Bob Bobbertson "to generalize is to throw away information" - W.R. Ashby

[@gcg8187]

@@BrennanYoung generalizing is an automatic function of the mind that saves time when not all information is a priority. Not always a bad thing, it can save your life. Yes Nuance exists too

[@austinch3]

Evelyn Glennie is definitely one of the best percussionists ever and one of my role models in music and life

[@IsherwoodWilliams1]

"One of" the best makes the comment meaningless

[@alaskanfrogman]

@@IsherwoodWilliams1 I disagree with your statement that "one of the best" makes the comment meaningless. It has meaning, especially to the author. But it is a bit diminutive. Dame Evelyn Glennie is renowned as the absolute best percussionist in the world. It is a well deserved acclaim, or accolade that so few drum players and percussionists can weigh claim to. There are many who claim that they are the best, but in comparison to Dame Glennie's performances, they are very crude by comparison. I would stack every single percussionist against her any day, and would wager that few, if any... can come close to her natural abilities.

[@Arkoudeides.]

@@alaskanfrogman No she isn't. Though see is very good.

[@blankowvsingt]

Buddy rich was/is/will ever be the best

[@blankowvsingt]

Also check this.. Best marimba song m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnKxZoeJg7mtobs

[@anupamsengupta4137]

What we hear she feels - far more deeply than any of us do . That's why she expresses music so beautifully

[@sharrykansal9979]

Class 9th CBSE? Beehive? NCERT?? Or something else?

[@ironfur2000]

When she asked the audience to emulate thunder with clapping, it actually sounded like heavy rain

[@alaskanfrogman]

You should watch the video again... listen to her comments that came after, when she spoke and reflected on children asked to do what she requested from this audience. Her observation was spot on, because when she asked children to clap like thunder, they were NOT restricted to just clapping their hands. While on the other hand, this audience made no efforts to try clapping differently, like slapping their legs, thumping their chests, or slapping the floor like the children did. It was a gorgeous observation that shows how children are NOT restricted by the same perceptions as adults. That was the point she made...

[@baldr12]

@@alaskanfrogman Clapping means using both hands against each other.

[@MrSyNRG]

@@baldr12 You're illustrating her point perfectly...

[@alaskanfrogman]

@@baldr12 I wonder where you came to the conclusion I didn't know what clapping is...? That's rhetorical don't bother answering... I will ignore any further comments from you forthwith after posting this reply. In her video, when Dame Evelyn Glennie asked her audience to emulate thunder, she was in fact, asking for audience participation, and knew full well that it's nearly impossible to imitate thunder by clapping your hands. She knew this and so do I. I understood what she wanted from her audience perfectly, where clearly you did not. Dame Glennie was looking for an auditory response from the audience and is why she asked them to create the sounds of thunder by clapping. She did so, because if I may offer a conjecture based on observation regarding this, loud uproarious applause is often referred to as "thunderous applause." She understands this and so do I. I am musical. I understand music better than most. I grew up around music, studied music throughout my school years singing in choirs and playing in bands. Music was an everyday part of my life from early childhood. I took "Music Appreciation," and "Music Theory" in high school, 2 subjects that I pursued and studied on my own. For you to try belittling and embarrassing me with your uninformed and totally irrelevant comment reveals something about you and your knowledge and understanding of music, sound, the 2 primary subject matter topics in this video. Why you see fit to attack and try to embarrass people's postings and comments also speaks volumes about you. You are an internet troll looking for ways to make yourself feel better about you and you try preying on other people to that end. If you don't like people's postings, then stay out of the conversations if you weren't invited. It's that simple. We don't need nor want someone like you ruining pleasant conversations with uninformed and negative comments that have nothing to do with otherwise intelligent conversations... A little reminder "goblin slayer," I am ignoring and blocking all comments from you from here on.

[@bobwrotenstien315]

@@alaskanfrogman Of course it was a gotya kind of thing. The point was made, but a bit unfair to the audience who would reasonably assume it would be selfish to disrupt the presentation with a response they might have felt the liberty to take if they were home or in a one on one context, as opposed to a response in the context of being an audience member.

[@anika.3074]

anyone else from 9th who wanted to actually get into the chapter and learn more about her and thus came here?

[@serenity_009]

I guess all the cbse 9th graders have seen this video once

[@JayarthaChakraborty741]

Hm lol day after tommorows my english exam

[@pattyfromtoledo]

"allow your body to be a resonating chamber . . ." I'm so happy to have found this beautiful TED talk!

[@alaskanfrogman]

You know what? I really don't care that no one seems to be watching this video anymore. That's neither here nor there. I absolutely love this woman... her interpretations of music and sound, her incredible skills and musical gifts... her voice, her beautiful way of speaking, the sounds of her words... the way she rolls the Rs... and most of all, her knowledge and love of music. I was going to fast forward to the final song she played. And for a 3rd time I found myself captivated with her presentation in this video.. captivated by her beauty and knowledge about rhythm and knowledge about sound... and most of all, her love of music. I knew that kind of love for music before and had it at one time in my life. I get brief glimpses and experience it again ever so briefly whenever I watch this gorgeous presentation. Thank you Ms Dame Evelyn Glennie, for reminding me about what music really is...

[@heinzerbrew]

So what is the short version of what this video is about? I tried to watch it but all the banging really hurts my eardrums and something about her voice hurts to listen. I have to turn down my volume when she bangs on stuff then I have to turn up my volume to hear her. I clicked on it because of the title but based on the comments it's about deaf people. is the whole video just banging on stuff, because if so I will have to pass?

[@sparklegirl7544]

I have enjoyed reading your comments and would love to share my God-given gift of music with you. Click on my face to keep the music going, since you love music so much (instrumental piano music that I composed and play myself...)! Have a blessed and wonderful day! By the way, Beethoven is my FAVE composer and I learned even more about him by reading your comments, so thank you!!

[@just83542]

@@heinzerbrew maybe turn on subtitles for her words? She basically makes the point that music isn't just your eardrums as is conventionally believed, but feeling it in your body, and being creative about how music is created. Understanding music beyond how it is written but experimenting with all parts of the instrument, or how children are more likely to be outside of convention than adults when asked to represent or recreate natural weather phenomenon musically. If your listening with earphones, you're at cross purposes to her intentions to transcend the standard paradigm of what it means to listen to music and sound, she wants you to feel the music in your body and not as traditional music is represented.

[@heinzerbrew]

@@just83542 Thank you very much. This is essentially what I already heard from a documentary on deaf people 20 years ago on PBS. I don't enjoy loud bass and percussion that vibrate my insides. the comments here really made this video seem as if she was sharing something new and profound. thank you for the subtitle suggestion.

[@gcg8187]

Cool story

[@jayant7753]

Who came here after the third chapter of NCERT class 9?

[@pragatitomar4313]

96% people watching this video are from India and study in class 9th .....

[@RAFITAESTRADITA]

The same principles explained apply to verbal communication. If you want to have a richier communicational events, stop thinking only in terms of words. Lets think in terms of rithm, intensity, silence, speed etc. The impact we will have in our audience will improve exponetially.

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

Hey, hey, let's be fair. In terms of KZbin comments theirs was very well articulated.

[@petesheehan6927]

Exactly why wars break out over the printed word ,(like here) no context.

[@claudiasiefer8495]

lol

[@michaelmckeept]

@Hugo van der Meer So quick to find fault instead of listening.

[@darmok-hm6jx]

Raphael Strasse Silence is what changes noise into music. In the 40s, a music professor at a leading Eastern University recorded a 78 rpm record, and said it was the most important thing in learning music. On the first day of class, he would play his record for the class. They had to set through 45 minutes of silence. Whenever I read that, I thought, he's absolutely right. Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~ Frédéric Chopin "Your audience won't notice how much you spent on your guitar, however, they will notice if you haven't practiced." Joe Schmoe

[@UNIOM]

"If we see someone in a wheel chair we assume they CANNOT walk. Maybe they can walk 3.. 4.. 5.. steps, that to them means they CAN Walk. In a years time it could be 2 extra steps, in another years time 3 extra steps"

[@pentachronic]

The assumption is that they can't use their feet to walk. People have been known to walk on their hands.

[@jacksp1787]

That's why I use a walker, a new 'Flyer Raptor" ($200 USD), after 2 weeks flat on my back in hospital a year ago: I can walk without it, but I tire easily and need to stop and/or sit down, and this extremely sturdy walker has a seat, which also will let me carry 2 full grocery bags on it if I'm careful about the way that I hold them. And yes, many people in wheelchairs are able to walk, even if only a few steps, but they need the 'chair' to be there if they get dizzy or their legs get wobbly or their destination is far away (like departure gates at airports, etc etc etc).

[@pushpasenthilkumar6698]

Who came here after the lesson the sound of music

[@billymusicwb]

This lecture is a simple miracle. It is a different world depending on how we learn to listen. "My real aim is to teach the world to listen." Glennie is a miracle, and absolutely human. Love this video! It may be helpful to know that professional concert percussionist Glennie is profoundly deaf.

[@MarkConnely]

"Stop the judgement". That's really it. Listen like you have nothing to say, simply receive.

[@TomMississippi]

I try, but my mind is too busy. I really want to live in the musical moments. I guess the music has to connect to me to make my brain quieten down.

[@LifeInZadar]

Here idea of interpretation is literally a set of judgements. Thank God she isn't a UN Interpreter, but an artist.

[@geoffreyhowie4645]

Eve is a family member of mine and she taught me how to feel sound through vibration You notice she wears no shoes, too many that is visual to her it’s something entirely different Never judge a book by its cover has nothing visual about that comment unless your rather narrow minded or rather opinionated Thank Eve, love you, Geoff

[@piano-praktikant7056]

That moment that you realize that she is deaf... She knows how to motivate people in the right way, not by saying look at me, I am deaf and I still can do it... But more like Look at me, I may be deaf, but so what, that gave me other possibilities that you guys don't have - but I am willing to share those with you.

[@crinolynneendymion8755]

It's astounding how her Northeast accent is a counterpoint to what she is describing.

[@ethnomusicexplained]

This is an incredible talk. The embodiment of music is something that we each do almost every day. It's why we tap our feet, drum our fingers, and dance. Music has an enormous influence on our whole body, it can give us goosebumps - an evolutionary relic linked with adrenaline and our 'fight or flight' response to stimuli - it can change our heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. We feel music with our whole bodies and it often happens without us even noticing.

[@misnomernoter8242]

Ms Glennie mentioned feeling the sound not just with the ears but also with all the various parts of our bodies, and mentioned a bunch of body parts, but left out one of the most important, the face and paranasal sinuses, the chest, breast, and heart area, and one of the most important, the genitalia. I might as well point out that sexual pleasure works similarly - it is important not to feel it just in your genitalia, but to feel it all over your body, and somewhere else too, that isn't a body part that anatomists can point to.

[@gojump7]

@Ethnomusicology Explained! You said it so much better than I would have!! I have loved music for all of my 53 years. What is amazing to me is that I have several friends who do not crave any types of music or songs, and don't get a thrill like I do.

[@samLIPS66]

Especially when your in a mosh pit.

[@Veaseify]

That's DAME Evelyn Glennie, one of the few instances of the British Honours system actually serving it's purpose..

[@Markle2k]

That honor didn't come for another 8 months after this was posted.

[@Pete-z6e]

Says Steve, The Oracle.

[@clairehalkett3022]

I've had the pleasure of playing solo and in ensemble for her in my teens, she is awesome in person. Absolute ledge!!

[@tumeninodes8870]

Even her speech alone, is an amazing achievement

[@ravendrakumar7270]

Who is here after reading chapter the sound of music

[@jaelinkearse287]

after reading the comment from 4 years ago (2019) not knowing she is deaf. I'm Speechless

[@tekanova7480]

By her speech she is not completely deaf...

[@sleepyMe412]

​@@tekanova7480that's a massive assumption and is very ignorant. She went deaf after she learned how to speak vocal English. Deaf people are not a monolith.

[@fiveyearold]

I love this Ted Talk. There aren't so many people outside of musicians that really UNDERSTAND the nature of how people experience sound and vibration

[@Rishikamanik160]

From beehive students 😄 let me know the present click like

[@PawanSiddhartha-bu5kr]

Bro BRO fan bro

[@Rishikamanik160]

What what ?

[@alaskanfrogman]

has anyone else who watches this video noticed how she pulls overtone notes out of the different keys? It's remarkable... How she can make the keys play different overtone notes. I've seen some really good marimba players, but have never seen any of them do what she can do with that instrument. Her deafness is a definite asset because she is not hampered the same way that hearing people are. She is free to explore and experiment with different percussion instruments. She is able to make an incredible variety of different sounds from the instruments she plays, like the snare drum in this video. Most players just bang away at a snare drum, bringing monotone sounds either with the snare engaged or off. When she was playing the snare drum with the snare off, the amount of different note sounds she was able to create is astounding. I would stack every single percussionist against her any-day of the week, and she would beat them all hands down, and she probably wouldn't even break a sweat... She is the absolute best I've ever seen... And, she has made the Marimba my absolute favorite instrument. The piano is now my second favorite instrument, second only to the marimba.

[@austinshoupe3003]

The overtone thing is a combination of touch, mallet choice, and the instrument. Yamahas are particularly dirty in their overtones, so the effect is more dramatic and a touch less controllable. Hence why they aren't favored by soloist. Great band instruments though. The piece is also one in which the buzzing of notes together is exploited heavily. Also, Glennie is a graduated mallet person. More common these days, but it's not something everyone does. Glennie also puts drama ahead of many other elements. Most percussionist try to keep the overtone adjustments subtle. Glennie, as with most of her playing, doesn't bother with subtlety.

[@brotherdom1]

If she talked about paint drying ,it would still sound interesting from this lady .Let alone be so talented and intellegent .

[@geoffreytaylor5938]

I am intrigued to how Evelyn developed her accent being deaf

[@AnuarsTV]

She became deaf at age of 12 or so.

[@niallmartin9769]

Unmistakably Scottish.

[@altonmichaels5081]

Geoffrey Taylor I can see how this works great for music therapy, but when I go hear a symphonic work, chamber orchestra etc, I don’t want each part to be interpreted individually. Being a solo acoustic artist I have the liberty to apply what is being presented here. I did enjoy the presentation.

[@paranormalsoulcircle3176]

Not every percentage of people are fully deaf ,also some people are born hearing then later on can go through any kind of trauma where they can no longer hear,but if you did go Deaf after a certain age you still know how to speak.

[@lorddaver5729]

@@niallmartin9769 That's because she's Scottish...duh!

[@gaurijuyal5540]

" My aim is to teach the world how to listen" this is really inspiring... thank you for let me know about her in English textbooks

[@vizguru]

What a lovely lady. She refused to accept "no" for an answer and opened the doors for many future applicants.

[@incognito7932]

DEAF MUSICIANS? Beethoven! Awesome video and an incredible person. Thank You.

[@six-gold4216]

Beethoven actually started to go deaf when he was about 30 years of age. Prior to that, he heard perfectly well.

[@tanzila4445]

I am in class 9 and.. I have I chapter about her the chapter is Very very boring but her performance is like awsome relly yaar a lots of love for her

[@user-onyoutube868]

As someone who is deaf in one ear, and wear a hearing aid in the other, this is profound for me. This lady is a tremendous blessing.

[@GPBraaten]

I thought that is what she said!!!

[@bobbystockerdrums]

Try listening! She is one of the worlds greatest Percussionists,and Motivational speakers! With her intellect,there is no blabbering! Much to be learned here,for those so inclined!

[@terrysmlth7786]

I am more than 1/2 deaf and I now think I have a lot to work with good job.

[@trumpetmano]

My nephew is deaf and didn't listen to music, so I built a giant speaker he could lay on and he went further and now has speaker installed in chairs, his couch and his bed....

[@sehrasaed2022]

Just completed the chp now I'm here "Such a inspiration she is"💗

[@sankhachilerpakha969]

Best of luck for tomorrow's eng exam...

[@ErnestLemmingway]

evelyn is one beautiful soul. i'll never forget this lesson

[@archeesvlog132]

Am watching this after reading the chapter \The sound of music/and after watching this I just want to tell a single thing that this is epic.........no words for your hard works..........a box of love from a girl of India❤

[@KaeraNeko]

lmao, I did not expect the car commercial at the end, I thought it was an extension of the talk at first. xD

[@neilgoodman2885]

M e too!

[@sreenivasananthakrishna9234]

World's best percussionist who also happens to be deaf. No excuse for the rest of us.

[@G-0]

Not the best

[@brosephproseph1741]

sreenivasagopalan ananthakrishna Why is it impressive to play notes really close to each other repeatedly? Am I missing something?

[@BardofCornwall]

Great talk. Of course, there's also the crossover into dance, in which the body physically responds to the music.

[@maocharlisme]

For me it's in the deepest essence the other way around: the ear responds to movement 😌

[@gtbgnation843]

Yup yup

[@MetalNick]

Dance seems like the most archaic spiritual human ritual. Love it.

[@frogmouth]

Inspiring. And I have heard snow, landing on my jacket, very soft tinkling sound. It was minus 23 Celsius in jämtland, Sweden. I am Australian and from a hot dry part so I had almost no experience of it before and had never imagined such a thing. My hosts explained it was to do with the shape of the crystals. They were flat flakes I only a millimetres or so long. Tiny but numerous.

[@MLFranklin]

As s side bar, when she demonstrated what being a *technician* was like I was reminded on the monotonous droning rhythm of John Fogerty's "Born on the Bayou."

[@Rache_777]

this lady is so amazing and special and her achievement is just outstanding.

[@geraldfrost4710]

There is an old joke: "How do you get a guitarist to play softer? Hand him some sheet music." True musicians know is that the rhythmic presentation is more important than the exactness of the notes. I'm not saying that you ignore the notes, but that the flow is so much a part of the presentation that it should never be ignored. Evelyn's music flows. If you can't hear the passion in her music you've been deprived.

[@capuchinosofia4771]

If one cant hear the passion in her music, then one is truly deaf

[@B836784]

1 861 664 views, yet 240p and audio that sounds like everything's mixed with cymbals. wtf youtube, get your game on x'D Real impressive content though! (Y)

[@r.kkumar8287]

Yes I'm come from read the book beehive 😅😅. Anyone

[@anshikasingh8283]

Sound of music gang 👇

[@patrickwerrell7130]

Evelyn is truly AWESOME!.. I would like to meet her one day! she inspires me to hear music in deeper dimensions!, Mmmm, I will apply this to my wind instruments.

[@Sudarsan32]

She's a living lesson for us (9th standard students)

[@metalbootlegslivearchives]

To be an excellent musician you have to "Feel" it, not just play it.

[@rajeevlamba4127]

We are able to only listen music bt she feels music

[@onelonelyginger9153]

Felt really down before clicking on this video and now I feel... pure joy.

[@djStrimmer]

one lonely ginger bless 🌟you 🙏

[@cenos8521]

That was fantastic Evelyn :) You have brought back some very pleasant memories. Thank you for making your great talents and magical positive vibrations available to all of us around the world . It was a very special experience for me .

[@DarylSawatzky]

Wait what, she's deaf? I watched this before reading the description.

[@forgotmyname4807]

How many here r coming after reading the 2nd chapter (the sound of music part 1), beehive, grade 9, from our local NCERT

[@biswarupasutar1212]

Me😄

[@ANONYMOUS-tt2bq]

I have a chapter on her in my book.....THAT IS WHY I AM HERE ❤️❤️🔥

[@minatadey8261]

Any one here after Beehive Class 9 book 😄

[@RishikaSahu00]

Me 😁

[@dibyasa4694]

Mee

[@amaze-on07]

Glennie has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12, having started to lose her hearing from the age of 8. This does not inhibit her ability to perform at an international level. ... She explains that she taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears.

[@Etherglide]

Evelyn's teacher sounds like a remarkable person. Who was he?

[@kashmirashrivastava3698]

Her teachers name was Ron Forbes

[@ax3lop588]

Ron forbes

[@priyankatripathi728]

Ron forbes

[@Arkoudeides.]

@Berliner Stadtschloss Ron Forbes i think.

[@QraQrJaq]

Who’s Ron Forbes?

[@Mishraaparna4561]

The lesson name is ,,,,The sound of music ,,,,,,, best lesson for music

[@fardin4243]

I am in 9th grade and we have a chapter about Evelyn Glennie and her story is an amazing inspiration to us children

[@aodh5022]

Wow, I started watching/ listening to this with no idea this lady is deaf! I couldn't believe my ears when she uttered the words " deaf musician". Her pronunciation, albeit with a Scottish accent, is precise and completely without the telltale signs that most deaf individuals demonstrate. TRULY ASTOUNDING.

[@lorddaver5729]

+Aidan Gribbin "without the telltale signs that most deaf individuals demonstrate." You are making the mistake of assuming she was born deaf. She wasn't. She didn't become deaf until the age of 12, by which time she could speak normally. And it is also not surprising that she has a Scottish accent, given that she is Scottish. It's not astounding at all. Do a little research next time, before making comments on KZbin.

[@Dishanta_Goswami]

Our teacher told us she is deaf. So I instantly came to KZbin and checked her. And here I am :)

[@23Guitardood]

Genius! Best TED talk ever in my opinion... I really wish I stumbled across this much much sooner. But either way, as a musician at heart, and a multi-instrumentalist, I'm so glad I did. Gotta love Evelyn Glennie!

[@crazydavec3861]

She is awesome, many years ago I was in the music rooms of the school where I worked, failing to play the snare in various ways, getting quite annoyed with myself! I became aware that someone had come in the room behind me and was watching. Hmm, who's th...er Hello! (holy c**p it's Evelyn Glennie!), she packed quite a lot of really useful hints into perhaps 30 seconds (if that) then headed off out the opposite door! - leaving my jaw bouncing up and down on the snare! :)

[@canturgan]

That 'organ like' thing she played was nice. What an interesting person and what a great musician.

[@wazouskisan5473]

Just incase you havent found out yet, it is a marimba, my personaly 2nd favorite instrument behind the vibraphone which is awesome. It is an incredible video though. Hope this helps.

[@adesakupa]

MARIMBA omg 😟

[@Manisha29452]

I am in 9th standard there's a chapter about her in our book....you know watching her performing is more wonderful than reading about her. She is awesome 🥰😊🥰😊🥰😊🥰😊🥰😊

[@anantineemishra6833]

The 688 unfortunate people who have disliked this must have been so overcome with emotion that they accidentally hit the 'dislike' button. Pity.

[@anehakansson7771]

A wonderful musician and a human being.

[@djStrimmer]

Ane Håkansson An amazing human🌟 & a talented musician 🙏

[@DROSTraceurADD]

Wait a minute she's deaf!?!?! I was thinking that when she transforms she looks like Beethoven xDDD

[@gerrygent1]

A truly amazing woman, I've been following her music for years. Always an inspiration !

[@nippychoo]

Evelyn is a trailblazer. So touched!!

[@ammoalamo6485]

I am astounded just watching her demonstrate her hand and finger speed.

[@crusTodd]

She is one of the most thoroughly communicative and articulate speakers I've ever heard. Brilliant👍

[@MsPareidolia]

almost 7 years old and this remains one of my very favorite Ted Talks

[@pwg8379]

Sorry, but I guess I'm just turned off by TED talk type fare or "motivational type" seminars where I have to sit through nebulous topics that it seems only the speakers themselves understand, or what is the ultimate point here?? While there are in fact deaf people who do music and geniuses who've created it (see one Ludwig Van but he could hear in his earlier life)----they must still be a very very small percentage or "genius"/autistic savant part of the population. Are there blind folks who paint?? Very most certainly, probably and discrimination is very very bad, everyone of us is just different and talented in different ways and to certain degrees, no one should be shunned, in addition to folks who only read music and don't have any concept of improvisation or for folks who just like classical music mainly. Also, it just seems like Evelyn is NOT deaf because of the clear way she enunciates and speaks---deaf people just don't speak that well is why I'm so skeptical of this TED talk in general.

[@jittuprasad8913]

💤She feels music 🎶 I would be very happy to hear her music evelyn gives very sweet💞 🥰chit I give Evelyn should 💯💋💞my best.😊