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Grammy Award-Winner Dame Evelyn Glennie, One of the World’s Most
Celebrated Percussionists, Returns to UCLA Live Dec. 6
Grammy Award-winning virtuoso percussion soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie,
one of today’s most eclectic and innovative musicians, made her
highly-anticipated return to UCLA Live for the first time in ten years
with a diverse recital that included J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue
in D Minor, Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” and works
by contemporary composers from France, Germany, Iceland, Spain, The
Netherlands and U.S.
In a
concert that began at 8 pm on Thursday, Dec. 6 at UCLA Live at Royce
Hall on the UCLA campus, Glennie performed with an assortment of traditional
and unconventional instruments. The "profoundly deaf" musician,
performing solo and barefoot as usual on only a fraction of her 1800
instruments, proved yet again that she is the ultimate master of innovation.
She made percussion instruments out of the most unlikely objects, e.g.,
flower pots to convey fragility in Frederic Rzewski’s “To
the Earth”, wood blocks, and yes, the human body - reciting apropos
verses as she coaxed the most interesting musical sounds out of them
with sticks or bare hands.
Devoting most of the concert to more traditional instruments, e.g.,
maracas to create complex polyrhythms in Javier Alvarez’s “Temazcal”
(Burning Water), snare drum in Askell Masson’s “Prim”
and marimbas in Matthias Schmitt’s “Sechs Miniaturen”
and Leigh Howard Stevens’ “Rhythmic Caprice,” she
produced a dazzling universe of sounds that mesmerized the audience
and reaffirmed her stature as the FIRST LADY of SOLO PERCUSSION.
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DAME EVELYN GLENNIE—Recital Program
Frederic Rzewski To the Earth
Nebojsa Zivkovic Fluctus
Matthias Schmitt Sechs Miniaturen
Javier Alvarez Temazcal
Jacob Ter Veldhuis Barracuda Solo
Intermission
J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565
arranged by Evelyn Glennie
Vinko Globokar - Corporel
Steve Reich - Clapping Music
Leigh Howard Stevens - Rhythmic Caprice
Askell Masson Prim
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Scotland-born GLENNIE, the first person in musical history to successfully
create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, to date
is still the only profoundly deaf musician on the international concert
stage. She has complemented her best-selling autobiography, “Good
Vibrations” (published in 1991) and her now-famous
“Hearing
Essay” (to explain her condition and how she is able
to overcome it as a musician) by collaborating with Fred Frith and renowned
director Thomas Riedelsheimer on a 2004 film about her life and career
entitled “Touch
the Sound.”
Known as a groundbreaker in the classical music world, Glennie is also
a gifted composer. As a performer she is constantly redefining the goals
and expectations of percussion, single-handedly expanding her repertoire
that now includes 147 new works for solo percussion commissioned eminent
contemporary composers.
Glennie gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, and has appeared
with nearly all of the major orchestras and with conductors including
Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin and Esa-Pekka
Salonen. She has also worked with classical artists such as Emmanuel
Ax as well as pop singers such as Sting, Björk, Bela Fleck, and
Bobby McFerrin, and other percussion groups such as the Kodo drum ensemble.
Glennie is well-known for her TV appearances on “Late Night with
David Letterman” and “Sesame Street.”
After 20 years in the music industry, Glennie has begun teaching privately,
which allows her to explore the world of sound therapy as a means of
communication. She has developed the EG Images photographic library
and created EG Jewelry, which features designs based on her influences
as a solo percussionist.
Since she became a FanFaire-featured artist several years ago, EVELYN
GLENNIE has received in addition to her two Grammy Awards and approximately
80 international honors the coveted titles of distinction "Officer
of the British Empire" and subsequently "Dame Commander of
the British Empire" - which confers literal truth to the pronouncement
that when it comes to percussion, "There is nothing like a DAME!"
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