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Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, [1] CH, DBE (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Early life
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie. [3] In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989 , [ 4 ] collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she ...
“Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” star Morfydd Clark is set to headline a biopic “Making Noise,” about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman who became the world’s premier solo percussionist.
A recording of Conjurer featuring Evelyn Glennie and the Albany Symphony Orchestra under David Alan Miller was released through Naxos Records on September 3, 2013. Glennie's performance on the album later won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo .
The track features performances by Alex Trimble (lead singer and guitarist of Two Door Cinema Club), percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, the Dockhead Choir conducted by Mag Shepherd, Only Men Aloud male voice choir, soprano Elizabeth Roberts, and Esme Bronwen-Smith (co-writer with Rick Smith of the soprano and choral score). [3]
UFO (for solo percussion and orchestra (1999), and for solo percussion and symphonic band (2000)) is a composition written by American composer Michael Daugherty for percussionist Evelyn Glennie. The world of American popular culture inspires much of Daugherty's music – in the present case, the unidentified flying objects that have been an ...
Touch the Sound is a documentary film by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie and how she hears with her body. In 2003 Riedelsheimer asked English experimental musician Fred Frith to perform with Glennie in the film; Frith had previously worked with Riedelsheimer on the soundtrack for his 2001 documentary, Rivers and Tides.
At 84 years old, Evelyn Paternostro spends her days working part time as a cashier at Dollar Tree. For decades, she dedicated her life to education, serving as a teacher and principal in Louisiana.