Write about the life of Evelyn Glennie ?
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Evelyn Glennie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1965. She went to school at the Ellon Academy and discovered percussion at the age of 12, after having played the piano for a couple of years. Her parents bought her a snare drum and she began to take percussion lessons with teacher Ron Forbes, who taught her timpani.
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Evelyn Glennie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1965. She went to school at the Ellon Academy and discovered percussion at the age of 12, after having played the piano for a couple of years. Her parents bought her a snare drum and she began to take percussion lessons with teacher Ron Forbes, who taught her timpani. She has widened our understanding of what music is and shown us that listening is only partly to do with our ears. Everyone, whatever their physical circumstances, can perceive and perform music, can feel and convey good vibrations. We all have our own, individual tone. In her home country of the United Kingdom, she has changed the criteria for acceptance by music schools, has been honoured by the Queen for her efforts and had a key role in the opening of the Olympic Games in London in 2012. As a musician, she is one of very few who have successfully made a career as a solo percussionist. She has played with the world’s foremost orchestras, conductors and artists and has released more than 30 solo albums. Evelyn Glennie shows us that the body is a resonance chamber and that we live in a universe of sound.