Virtuoso Voices™ - Evelyn Glennie (Playing Barefoot) 0:30
October 2006 CD

[Use this clip to enhance your introduction of any Evelyn Glennie performance.]




SUGGESTED HOST INTRO
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie plays barefoot. In a performance where she's moving between a number of instruments, a pair of high heels might add an unwanted percussive element to the music. And she says there are other reason's for going shoeless. 


CLIP TRANSCRIPT 
"I think really most musicians would very much like to take their shoes off frankly. And of course, most musicians are already connected with their instruments. So if you imagine a brass player, a wind player, a string player, they have that instrument resting on part of their body. With percussion, you often don't. You're detached by the stick, or mallet. So it just gives me that extra dimension of feeling the sound really...And it's just more comfortable. [laughs]" 


SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Here she is playing... 




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