Planting the Golden Seed with Evelyn Glennie
The High Performance Podcast
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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These bitesize episodes focus on the greatest lessons we’ve learnt from the guests we've had on the podcast.
Today, Jake takes us back to episode 45 with Dame Evelyn Glennie. Evelyn is a Scottish percussionist, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12. In this clip, she discusses how important it is to open the world of children to new things that will inspire and ignite them.
This bitesize clip explores following passion and how giving children responsibility positively impacts them.
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| 0:00.0 | So Dame Evelyn is a Scottish percussionist. She tours all over the world, performing as a soloist |
| 0:06.4 | with a wide variety of orchestras and amazing musicians. She conducts master classes, she consults |
| 0:12.7 | with people, she's a motivational speaker. She's one of the most incredible musicians on the planet, |
| 0:18.5 | but here's the thing. She's been profoundly deaf since the age of 12. She started to lose her hearing |
| 0:24.6 | at eight years old, but no, it does not stop her performing. The crucial thing is, it also doesn't stop her |
| 0:31.2 | believing. She joined us to talk about how you can be deaf and still be a musician who changes |
| 0:38.1 | the game. And this is what she told us about inspiration. It's an amazing listen. Here it comes. |
| 0:46.1 | Again, when I went to the secondary school and all new pupils, |
| 0:50.0 | popped into the school hall and the school orchestra played for us all. That was incredible, |
| 0:56.5 | I have to say, because it gave us a chance to look at the orchestra and I looked at them thinking |
| 1:02.6 | strings, I don't really want to play strings. I don't really want to play brass. I don't really |
| 1:07.9 | want to play wind instruments because I already tried that. But percussion, that seems interesting, |
| 1:13.1 | but absolutely I had no idea that that would be the thing for me. And I think that it's really |
| 1:19.6 | opening up as many opportunities for our families to experience, whether it's going to a zoo, |
| 1:25.8 | whether it's going to just the local park, whether it's going to see a concert, whether it's going to |
| 1:31.6 | go to an event that you think, oh heavens, that's not for a five-year-old or something, but then you |
| 1:35.9 | go and suddenly something, it's just something. It could be something that somebody says or a |
| 1:41.7 | comment that a child makes, a word that they utter, something, something that they might draw. |
| 1:48.3 | It's really paying attention, but basically opening the world up to them and just seeing |
| 1:56.0 | how they interact with it. I love that answer, Damien. It's phenomenal. I've often heard it described |
| 2:02.7 | by child psychologists as that open-mouthed moment and for parents to look at that moment when |
| 2:08.7 | a child just looks in awe and wonder at something and pursue that passion. Yeah, and I think what's |
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