首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
From a world of silence, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie brought some of the world’s most beautiful music to the church of St
From a world of silence, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie brought some of the world’s most beautiful music to the church of St
admin
2010-01-15
79
问题
From a world of silence, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie brought some of the world’s most beautiful music to the church of St Paul and St Peter the Great at Chichester on Monday evening.
This attractive young Scottish lass has proved that what many would consider a disability was no handicap at all as she hypnotized her audience with a talented performance at this Chichester Festivities concert. She demonstrated her art with pieces on the xylophone, the marimba, the snare drum, ’and the timpani.
With accompaniment from pianist Robert Howle, this evening with Evelyn Glennie was one of those little gems the festival seems to pull out to surprise and delight us each year.
Displaying an easy and relaxed attitude and a keen sense of humor -- with many jokes directed against herself ("this is the part I find most difficult," she told us as she tuned the timpani) -- Evelyn played some haunting works specially written for xylophone, such as her own inspiring "A Little Prayer" and the lilting Scottish tune "Tween Heaven and Sea".
She also "stole" items from the repertoire of other instruments -- the exciting "Czarda’ more usually heard on violin, "Dreaming" by Schumann, "Maple Leaf Rag" by Joplin, and Chopin’s "Black Key Study", all works written for the piano but given an extra dimension on the xylophone.
The audience was foxed completely as they tried to clap along to snare drum demonstration, a "mummy and daddy open roll", and there was no falling asleep during the dramatic sonata for Timpani by Beck -- as Evelyn said herself "It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it isn’t very often that you see a solo timpanist, and a female one at that !"
Evelyn Glennie may not have been able to hear the applause, but she must surely have seen the warm smiles and happy faces of an audience to which she endeared herself with a charming personality and uncanny instrumental ability.
According to the passage, the critic thinks the concert was______
选项
A、enjoyable
B、boring
C、monotonous
D、disastrous
答案
A
解析
本题询问评论家对音乐会的看法。由观众热情洋溢的反应可知,音乐会值得欣赏且相当成功。描写观众反应的词有“clap along to snare drum demonstration”,“warm smiles”,“happy faces”等。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/6InK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
勤能补拙。
我有一个舒适的家。
(1)Whichwouldyouprefertobe:amedievalmonarchoramodernoffice-worker?Thekinghasarmiesofservants.Hewearsthe
A、ItwasentirelyprovidedbytheTreasurerandtheCabinet.B、Itwassupportedbyenterprisesandcompanies.C、Littlewasalloc
Thatlargeanimalsrequirealuxuriantvegetation,hasbeenageneralassumptionwhichhaspassedfromoneworktoanother;b
A、Historians.B、Writersandpoets.C、Professorofmusic.D、ProfessorofEnglish.B细节辨认题。根据themostimportantteachers定位到句[3],女士说
A、Itistimeconsuming.B、Itcannotmakebadworkgood.C、Itcostsalot.D、Itisnoteffectiveatall.B总结题。关于检查成品质量的问题,受访者说:Th
PassageThreeThesteakhousemaybeAmerica’sgreatestsingleachievement.Sure,there’sthatConstitutioneveryone’ssoimp
Thebusinessofsocialwalkingissettingoffintoalargelyunexploredareaofnavigation.Acommunity-basedgroupinthewood
Youshouldknowbetterthan______yourlittlesisterathomebyherself.
随机试题
如下图所示,某校园网用10Gbps的POS技术与Internet相连,POS接口的帧格式是SDH。路由协议的选择方案是校园网内部采用OSPF协议,校园网与Internet的连接使用静态路由协议。校园网内的路由器R1设为DHCP服务器,可分配的IP地址是2
着色检查是用来发现各种材料焊接接头,特别是非磁性材料的各种表面缺陷。()
对于颌面部损伤,患者若不及时处理,会立即造成生命危险的主要原因是
水的弹性模数E=2.16×109Pa,若使水的体积减少2%,所需要的压强增量为()pa。
下列选项中,属于成本费用管理文件的有()。
关于厚涂型钢结构防火涂料的说法,正确的是()。
以下关于商业银行依法冻结单位存款的说法正确的是()。
老师:“不完成作业就不能出去做游戏”。学生:“老师,我完成作业了,我可去外边做游戏了!”老师:“不对。我只是说,你们如果不完成作业就不能出去做游戏。”除了以下哪项。其余各项都能从上面的对话中推出?
1946年诞生的世界上公认的第1台电子计算机是
Wecanlearnfromthespeakerthathisvillagelifeis
最新回复
(
0
)