《高级休闲英语》学习重点MorepracticewiththevideoVideo82007秋英语本科专业教学资源整合.docVIP

More practice with the video Video 8 Yehudi Menuhin Charity Concerts and Punch Judy Focus Questions for Text 1 1. What sort of audiences are the concerts given to? 2. What sort of musicians are chosen to perform at these concerts? 3. Which song by which famous Austrian composer is sung? Text 1 A concert at a London school for children with learning difficulties. The musicians are part of a unique charity called Live Music Now. It was set up 20 years ago by the legendary violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. His belief in the power of music to provide joy and solace inspired the venture. It is so logical. It brings human beings what they need in loneliness or distress or for some reason they dont go to the concert halls. These people are too poor, too distant, or too sick or whatever it may be and they need music even more than the people who go to the concert halls and young people need the experience of what music really can bring. Menuhin has long worked outside the confines of the formal concert hall. During the Second World War he played for Allied Troops. And in 1945 he and the composer Benjamin Britten performed for concentration camp survivors. Ive personally benefitted from working with Live Music Now playing for all different kinds of audiences, from prisons, hospitals, hospices, children with behaviour difficulties. I think the audience can definitely benefit from this organization. They can learn more about all different kinds of music because in Music Live Now there are all different kinds of instrumentalists, all different kinds of music .. Ethnic music, country music, jazz music, as well as classical music and again it just raises the understanding of what we do and also it makes people happy. Even expert musicians need grooming in other skills before joining this particular concert circuit. Dont take anything for granted. Nothing. All right. This is a music stand, folks, and I am talking to you right and Ive come on to the stage and Ive