Klarinet Archive - Posting 000211.txt from 1995/08

From: Tom Izzo <tji@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Why involve the hearing impared in music???
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:00:14 -0400

On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, list Babs I King wrote:

> I am not a professional in such things as hearing impared and music.
> Not a professional at anything really except being a wife, mom and
> homemaker. But I do have some hearing impared friends who really enjoy
> music. One of them lost her hearing in childhood and still remembers
> enjoying listening to music. the other one lost hearing verry early
> childhood, maybe in the first year and has no memory of ever hearing
> anything and still loves music. They feel it. Like playing jazz. You
> have to feel it. Not just with your ears but we all feel it all over
> our bodies. Now i could understand wondering why to envolve the totaly
> blind person in looking at paintings that cannot be touched. unless of
> corse someone was there discribing in detail, but music is a total
> being experience. Pardon my lack of recall of names, but which famous
> classical composer was it who wrote much music and was deaf himself?

Beethoven

   
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