Class 9 English Chapter 2 Important Question Answers - The Sound of Music

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• Teachers craft us to become better individuals both personally and professionally. Ron Forbes understood Evelyn’s passion for music. He taught Evelyn the nuances of hearing music not through her ears but through her body. He taught her to feel the vibrations in her hands and parts of her legs to get the pitch. So, he crafted her to be more musical and confident.
• Bismillah Khan’s teacher and mentor was his maternal uncle Ali Bux. Bismillah used to be transfixed when Ali Bux used to play Shehnai. As a child, Bismillah used to accompany his material uncle to Vishnu Temple of Benares where Ali Bux was employed to play Shehnai. Bismillah picked up the finer nuances of Shehnai and practiced for hours on the banks of river Ganga. He attained perfection only because of his uncle and mentor.

• Ustad Bismillah Khan was a Shehnai master of great national and international fame. He was a great musician. 
• Ali Bux, his maternal uncle perfected him in music. Shehnai was brought to the classical stage by Ustad Bismillah Khan. He practiced for hours and worked very hard to attain perfection. 
• It was his melodious music that made him the first Indian to greet tire independent India. Ustad Bismillah Khan created many new rags. He was given many awards and he even received the “Bharat Ratna”. 
• He was a true patriot who declined many offers to settle abroad. He was a true artist but a simple man. He had great regard for Hindustani Classical Music.

• Bismillah was fascinated by watching his uncle practice the Shehnai when he was only three. He was deeply fascinated by the music of Shehnai. 
• Soon Bismillah started accompanying his uncle Ali Bux, to the Vishnu Temple of Benares where Bux was employed to play Shehnai. Bismillah picked up the finer nuances of Shehnai and practiced for hours on the banks of river Ganga. 
• The themes of his music are deeply affected by the sounds of flowing water of the Ganga. At the age of 14, Bismillah accompanied his uncle to the Allahabad music conference where Ustad Fayaz Khan patted his shoulder which inspired and encouraged him to work harder.

• Bismillah Khan was not only renowned in India also internationally. 
• He promoted Shehnai to international levels of participating in the world exposition, Cannes Art Festival and Osaka Trade Fair. 
• He became the first Indian to be invited to perform at the prestigious Lincoln Central Hall in the United States of America. 
• So well known did he become internationally that an auditorium in Tehran was named after him, “Tahar Mosiquee Ustaad Bismillah Khan.”

• Bismillah Khan was exceedingly fond of Benares and Dumraon. They were the most wonderful towns of the world for him.
• The students promised to recreate the atmosphere of Benares, but he asked if they would be able to transport River Ganga as well. Whenever he was in a foreign country he yearned for Hindustan.
• In Mumbai also he thought of only Benares and the holy Ganga. Thus, he refused to start a Shehnai School in the U.S.A.

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