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

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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