A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention (Published 2021)

The renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie, profoundly deaf since age twelve, performs shoeless to allow her feet to feel the vibrations from the floor. The human body, she told The Globe and Mail, is “like a huge ear.”

Started this research project after reading about Georgina Weldon. She’s notorious for having a litigation addiction but I’m obsessed with the time Gounod asked for his sheet music back after their divorce and she sent it with her name written across every page. When he attempted to have her committed, she escaped and

“The concert(s) of the Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich. She is just superhuman. She is quite elderly now, but she still plays. She’s coming to the BBC Proms this year. She has cult status in our world.” TF: I now routinely listen to her. To have your mind explode, search “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 FULL Argerich Charles Dutoit” and check o