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1、More More practice practice with with the the video video Video Video 8Yehudi Yehudi Menuhin Menuhin Charity Charity Concerts Concerts and and Punch Punch & Judy Judy Focus Focus Questions Questions for for Text Text

2、 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 Text 1 A concert at a London school f

3、or 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 Yehudi Menuhin Menuhin. His belief in t

4、he 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 don't go to the concert halls. These people

5、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

6、 worked outside the confines confines of the formal concert hall. During the suppose the overriding thing is that musicians want to create a very informal and friendly atmosphere, where the audiences feel completely rela

7、xed and able to be interactive with the music. And perhaps the most famous is Franz Franz Schubert Schubert. I would like to sing “The Trout“ - “Die Forelle“ and in case there are one or two of you who may not speak Germ

8、an fluently, I'll tell you a little about the song. The poet describes the trout trout swimming in the river… I can recommend this scheme to any young professional musician. It really is a great preparation ground fo

9、r communication with audiences, not only for singers who have to communicate directly, but also for instrumentalists who are alien to even speaking to audiences normally and I think they hide behind their instruments and

10、 this scheme won't let you do that… (music) When we audition musicians for the scheme the first thing we are looking for is musical excellence. But allied with that they have got to have very friendly, open personali

11、ties. They are going to have to be able to create a rapport rapport with a very wide variety of different kinds of people, sometimes in extremely difficult situations. They must love music, they must have a feeling for h