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HELLEN KELLER´S LETTERCOPY VOCABULARY (BACK OF NOTEBOOK)– WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021
HELLEN´S LETTER - VOCABULARY
1. Orchestra
2. Live broadcast
3. Heard
4. Derive
5. Pleasure
6. Delighted
7. Receiver (radio)
8. Diaphragm
9. Amazement
10. Impassioned
11. Throb
12. Urge
13. Intertwined
14. Intermingling
15. Cornets
16. Deep
17. Exquisite
18. Leaped
19. Trilling
20. Surge
21. Exultant
22. Ecstatic
23. Upcurving
24. Swift
25. Embodiment
26. Rushing
27. Flood
28. Throbbed
29. Poignant
30. burst
31. Harmonies
32. Conveyed
33. Moods
34. Thought
35. Tender
36. Swaying
37. reeds
38. Enraptured
39. Darkness
40. Melody
41. Shadow
42. Poured
43. Forth
44. Flood
45. Sweetness
46. Quenchless
47. Wrought
48. Shores
Copy the vocabulary and look for the English definitions.Copy the words from the list considering your number in the rollbook. If you were absent copy 37-48
Students 1-10 Students 11- 20 Students 21-27 Absent students
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2021
On the evening of February 1st, 1924, the New York Symphony Orchestra played Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York, conducted by Walter Damrosch. Thankfully for those who couldn't attend, the performance was broadcast live on the radio. A couple of days later, the orchestra received a stunning letter of thanks from the unlikeliest of sources: Helen Keller, a renowned author and activist who had been deaf and blind from a young age. It can be read below.
Eight years later, Keller wrote an equally evocative letter in which she described the view from atop the Empire State Building.
(Source: The Baton, Volumes 2-3, via Marcus Williams; Image: Helen Keller "listening" to the radio, c.1929, via Angelfire.)
ORCHESTRA
a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string,
woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing
classical music.
Beethoven 9 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Riccardo Muti
https://youtu.be/rOjHhS5MtvA
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is approximately seventy
minutes long and is made up of four movements. The concert will be performed without an intermission.
The four-movement form that emerged from this evolution was as follows:•an opening sonata or allegro.
•a slow movement, such as andante.
•a minuet or scherzo with trio.
•an allegro, rondo, or sonata.
Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music
https://youtu.be/kbJcQYVtZMo
SYMPHONY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUMPET AND CORNET
93 Seminole Avenue,Forest Hills, L. I.,February 2, 1924.
The New York Symphony Orchestra,
New York City.
Dear Friends:
1I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though deaf and blind, I spent a glorious hour
last night listening over the radio to Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony." 2I do not mean to
say that I "heard" the music in the sense that other people heard it; and I do not know
whether I can make you understand how it was possible for me to derive pleasure from
the symphony.
3It was a great surprise to myself. 4I had been reading in my magazine for
the blind of the happiness that the radio was bringing to the sightless
everywhere. 5I was delighted to know that the blind had gained a new
source of enjoyment; but I did not dream that I could have any part in
their joy. 6Last night, when the family was listening to your wonderful
rendering of the immortal symphony someone suggested that I put my
hand on the receiver and see if I could get any of the vibrations. 7He
unscrewed the cap, and I lightly touched the sensitive diaphragm.
DIAPHRAGM
8What was my amazement to discover that I could feel, not only the
vibrations, but also the impassioned rhythm, the throb and the urge
of the music! 9The intertwined and intermingling vibrations from
different instruments enchanted me. 10I could actually distinguish the
cornets, the roll of the drums, deep-toned violas and violins singing in
exquisite unison. 11How the lovely speech of the violins flowed and
plowed over the deepest tones of the other instruments! 12When the
human voice leaped up trilling from the surge of harmony, I
recognized them instantly as voices.
PLOW
13I felt the chorus grow more exultant, more ecstatic, upcurving swift
and flame-like, until my heart almost stood still. 14The women's voices
seemed an embodiment of all the angelic voices rushing in a
harmonious flood of beautiful and inspiring sound. 15The great chorus
throbbed against my fingers with poignant pause and flow. 16Then all
the instruments and voices together burst forth—an ocean of heavenly
vibration—and died away like winds when the atom is spent, ending in a
delicate shower of sweet notes.
17Of course, this was not "hearing" but I do know that the tones
and harmonies conveyed to me moods of great beauty and
majesty. 18I also sensed, or thought I did, the tender sounds
of nature that sing into my hand—swaying reeds and winds
and the murmur of streams. 19I have never been so
enraptured before by a multitude of tone-vibrations.
REEDS
20As I listened, with darkness and melody, shadow and sound
filling all the room, I could not help remembering that the great
composer who poured forth such a flood of sweetness into
the world was deaf like myself. 21I marvelled at the power of his
quenchless spirit by which out of his pain he wrought such joy
for others—and there I sat, feeling with my hand the magnificent
symphony which broke like a sea upon the silent shores of his
soul and mine.
22Let me thank you warmly for all the delight which your beautiful
music has brought to my household and to me. 23I want also to thank
Station WEAF for the joy they are broadcasting in the world.
24With kindest regards and best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
(Signed)
HELEN KELLER