Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Solo percussionist, Evelyn Glennie explains her admiration for cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre.
Presented by Matthew Parris.
With music writer and broadcaster, Stephen Johnson.
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
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| 0:35.0 | She was aged just 4 when she heard the cello being played on the radio and said to her |
| 0:41.1 | mother, I'll have one of those, and there began the love affair. And the The Jacqueline |
| 1:19.0 | Jaceline Dupre, playing Elgar's cello concerto, was one of the finest musicians that Britain has ever produced. |
| 1:23.7 | She was arguably the first great cellist to be born in England. |
| 1:28.0 | But her career was cut short when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had to stop playing age just 27. |
| 1:36.2 | This week's great life is championed by Dame Evelyn Glenie, herself an accomplished musician a solo percussionist. Evelyn, why Jacqueline de Pray? |
| 1:47.0 | As a young musician at the time myself, you know, I was extremely curious towards this ability to communicate through sound and I just really could identify and admire with this unrelenting musicianship and passion and the fact that the cello belonged to her, |
| 2:07.2 | the music belonged to her and there was no holding back and that gave me a lot of |
| 2:12.2 | inspiration. Do you feel any sense of kinship with her |
| 2:16.7 | because of her progressive loss of mobility through multiple sclerosis and the way that you lost your hearing I should |
| 2:25.2 | explain to listeners that you're lip reading me now. Well I I do feel |
| 2:30.5 | something for sure in that also know the sort of personal inner journey. |
| 2:36.8 | People can't see that. |
| 2:38.0 | That's something that is very much a private affair. |
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