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The Sound of Music & Wind

Gujarat Board · Class 9 · English

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Part I - Evelyn Glennie: The Deaf Musician

  • Evelyn Glennie lost her hearing gradually from age 8, becoming profoundly deaf by age 11
  • She concealed her deafness initially but was later advised to use hearing aids and attend a school for the deaf
  • Ron Forbes, a percussionist, helped her discover she could feel music through different parts of her body
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Part II - Ustad Bismillah Khan and the Shehnai

  • Born on 21 March 1916 in Bihar, from a family of musicians
  • Grandfather Rasool Bux Khan was shehnainawaz of Bhojpur king's court
  • Started learning at age 3 when taken to maternal uncle's house in Benaras
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Poem - 'Wind' by Subramania Bharati

  • Wind is personified as a powerful force that destroys weak things
  • The poem requests wind to come softly and not cause destruction
  • Wind breaks shutters, scatters papers, throws down books, tears pages

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Evelyn Glennie's story demonstrates that physicalEvelyn developed the ability to senseThe shehnai evolved from the pungiBoth Evelyn and Bismillah Khan achievedIn the poem 'Wind'

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