This week, Lloyd meets the first person in the world to have developed a career as a solo percussionist - Dame Evelyn Glennie. In her extraordinary career spanning nearly 30 years, Evelyn has worked with most of the world's leading orchestras, and helped to create the vast repertoire that now exists for solo percussion by commissioning and performing over 170 new works. Lloyd went to meet Evelyn at her offices, where they spoke at length about her career and her vast collection of instruments.
Interview outline
01.37 Work routine
03.06 Working with composers
05.44 Early years at the Academy/early commissioning projects
09.13 Evelyn's own composing for TV and film
10.42 Her experiences of deafness and the public's perception of it
15.06 The Art of Listening
18.04 Her involvement in the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
21.00 Evelyn's own view on her career
Instrument demonstrations
23.28 Aluphone
27.02 Cymbals
32.00 Exhaust pipes
34.01 Amadinda
35.33 Zube Tube!
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Title Music 'Yentas Five' from A Proper Grown Up, by the Spike Orchestra
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