Class 9th Eng.Beehive Ch-2 The Sound Of Music Theme, Message Characters explanation Summary,CBSE

Ch-2

The Sound of Music by Deborah Cowley

Message 

The sound of music by the Daborah Cowley conveys the idea that the sound of great music is everlasting those who create music with great diligence and dedication are remembered with love and affection for generations to come the case of 2 grade musical instrumentalists .

Part-I

Evelyn Glennie listens to Sound without Hearing It

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Detailed Summary of the Chapter

The message we get is never to allow adversity to come in the way of your pursuit to success. If one sense organ is damaged, make good use of the other sensory organs but never give up hope.

It is an inspiring story of a deaf girl named Evelyn Glennie who gained heights in the field of music. She did not let her deafness come in the way of her success. She became deaf when she was eleven years old, yet she became one of the greatest percussionists in the world. She was not able to hear music, but she could feel it through the different parts of her body.

Theme determination, sincere efforts and able guidance are the ways towards success. She overcame the challenge of her impaired hearing through her firm belief in herself and great confidence in her will.

Elevin Evelyn Glennie was a well determined and hardworking girl. When she was 11, she gradually lost her hearing capabilities. But she never gave up and with her rock strong will power will power she overcame the nature's obstacle. She took up music and captured most of the top awards at the Royal Academy.

Evelyn Found Deaf in  8 Years 

Evelyn Glennie was passionate about music even when she was only eight years old. One day her mother noticed that there was some problem with Evelyn as she was not giving any response. She was waiting for her turn to play the piano. Her name was called, but she did not move as if she had not heard it. This was the first time it became confirm that she could not hear properly. Evelyn had been hiding her growing deafness from people around her. By the age of eleven, her performance at school had already gone very low. Her headmistress advised her parents to take her to an ear specialist. The ear specialist confirmed that Evelyn's hearing was severely damaged. Her parents were advised to admit her to a school for the deaf. Evelyn was shattered by this experience.

Elevin Got Training in Music

Instead of losing hope, Evelyn made up her mind to follow her interest in music, though most of her teachers discouraged her. A famous percussionist, Ron Forbes, spotted her potential who asked her not to listen through her ears but sense it through some other way. Forbes tuned two large drums to different notes. Evelyn felt that she could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down. This exercise was repeated parts of her body. She had learnt how to open her mind and body to sounds and vibrations

Career in Music , age of 16

By the age of sixteen, she had decided to make music her life and career. She went to London and joined the Royal Academy of Music. In her entrance test, she scored the highest marks in the history of the Academy. By the end of the course, she had secured most of the top awards. Evelyn also toured the United Kingdom with a youth orchestra. But gradually she turned towards solo performances. She could play on about 1000 percussion instruments with great mastery and got most of the top awards by end of her three-year course.

Evelyn-A Celebrity

When she played the xylophone, she could feel the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she was able to feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform, she would remove her shoes so that the vibrations could pass through her bare feet and up her legs.

By her own admission, Evelyn is a workaholic. Apart from her regular concerts, she gives free performances in prisons and hospitals. She has become a huge inspiration for deaf children. She has shown the world that through hard work, anything can be possible. She has brought percussion to the forefront of orchestra and inspired millions of people.

Part-II

 Bismillah Khan is a renowned name in the field of Hindustani music. He travelled all over the world and won national and international awards. The greatest moment of his life came when he was awarded India's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna.

Aurangzeb's Hatred for Pungi

It is said that in the medieval period, a musical instrument called pungi used to be played in palaces to entertain the kings. But Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb did not like its shrill and unpleasant sound. So, he prohibited the playing of pungi in the royal residence. Origin and Popularity of Shehnai

Once there was a barber who had access to at the royal palace. He belonged to a family of musicians. He worked to improve the tonal quality of the instrument. He took a pipe with a natural hollow stem that was quite longer and broader than the original pungi and made seven holes on the body of the instrument. When he played on it, opening and closing some of the hole, melodious sound was produced. The barber played it before the king and his courtiers and impressed them. Since it was born in the Shah's chamber and was invented by a 'nai' (barber), the instrument was named Shehnai.

The early Shehnai players were mostly employed in religious places like temples. They played the Shehnai before the idols of gods and goddesses. It was also played in North Indian wedding and on other auspicious occasions. However, Ustaad Bismillah Khan brought this instrument to the classical stage. Ustaad Bismillah Khan: Birth and Background

Ustaad Bismillah Khan was a renowned Shehnai player. He belonged to a well-known family of musicians. He was born on 21 March, 1916 at Dumraon in Bihar. His grandfather, Rasool Bux Khan, had the honour of being the Shehnai Nawaz of the Bhojpur king's court. His father, Paigambar Bux, and other paternal ancestors were also great Shehnai players. Childhood

At the age of three, he accompanied his mother to his material uncle's house in Benaras. Soon, he started getting lessons in playing the instrument. For hours, he would keep on practising in the temples of Balaji and Mangala Maiya. He also used to go to the banks the Ganga and practise there in solitude. At the age of five, he used to visit a nearby of temple called Bihariji Temple in the ancient state of Dumraon. He would sit there and sing the Bhojpuri 'Chaita'. At the end, he would earn a big laddu weighing 1.25 kg by the local Maharaja.

Awards and Recognition

Bismillah Khan got his big break with the opening of the All India Radio in Lucknow in 1938. On the day of independence, he played Shehnai at the Red Fort before Prime Minister

Jawaharlal Nehru, He travelled almost all over the world and secured honours and respect from everywhere. King Zahir Shah of Afghanisthan was so taken by the maestro that he gifted him priceless Persian carpets and other souvenirs. Film director Vijay Bhatt also named a film after the instrument called Gunj Uthi Shehnai. Also, an auditorium in Tehran has been named after him. In 1999, he was honoured with the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India.His Love for Benaras and the Ganga

Though he had toured several countries of the world, but his heart always remained in Benaras and Dumraon. He had a special fascination for Benaras and the river Ganga on whose ghats he had practised in his childhood.

Once, one of his disciples in the USA requested him to head a Shehnai school there and promised to recreate the atmosphere of Benaras by replicating the temples there. But the Ustad asked him if he would be able to bring Ganga there. Once he said that whenever he was in Mumbai, he could only think of Varanasi and the holy Ganga. And while in Varanasi,he missed the unique mattha in Dumraon.

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