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| BBC Learning EnglishPeople and PlacesAlexandra KlossSIG William: Hello and welcome to People and Places, theprogramme from BBC LearningEnglish that introduces you to interesting people from aroundthe world. TAGToday you're going to meet a very talented young musician,Alexandra Kloss. Alexandra is living in London and studying at the prestigiousRoyal Academy of Music. You’re going to listen to Alex talkabout her life and as you listen I want you to try to answerfour questions. You can see these questions on the People andPlaces webpage on bbclearningenglish dot com. But I’ll alsotell them to you now. OK? Here are your four questions. Number one – what instrument does Alexandra play? CLIPThat was a hint! Number two – What languages does Alexandra speak? Number three – What project has she been involved in, at theRoyal Academy of Music? And, last one, number four – What kinds of music can oneplay on Alex’s instrument? Right – I’ll shut up now, but at the end of the programme I’ll come back to tell you the answers…STINGAlexandra: My name is Alexandra Kloss, I’m fromGermany, I’m twenty years old, and since September last yearI’ve been studying at the Royal Academy of Musicin London… and I’m playing the recorder in the Early MusicDepartment there. Fantasia no. 7 (G.P. Telemann)I’m actually half-German and half-Russian, so my mothercomes from StPetersburg and my father comes from Germany. So I speak bothlanguages… English is also my first foreign language. Somehow, my two mother languages, they help me becausesomehow I understand the languages a bit, yeah, easier. Butmaybe also because German is so… yeah, so similar toEnglish. Sonata no. 1 (F. Mancini)The Royal Academy is really a nice place. There are manydifferent peoplethere and different cultures, so, yeah, people fromeverywhere. And um, we’ve got loads of projects. First ofall, I’ve been involved in a very interesting project, um,with Baroque dance, where um, the students of the RoyalAcademy, we had to dance in costumes and play. And it was avery nice experience to dance in the costumes. Yeah, they arevery beautiful, but also very uncomfortable, to be honest! Sonata no. 1 (F. Mancini)For a very long time, recorder was just an instrument forchildren or forschools to use it for the music lessons, but um, it’s not aninstrument like that, there are loads of different models ofrecorders, and there is, in fact, loads of music for it: allthe Baroque period, Renaissance, Medieval stuff and now alsolots of modern music is composed for recorder. So, I think,yeah, it's getting better again…Sonata no. 1 (F. Mancini)STINGWilliam: That was words and music from AlexandraKloss. She was playing one of thetwelve Fantasias by GP Telemann, and then at the end, F. Mancini’s first Sonata… and she was playing them on therecorder, which was the answer to the first question. How about the second question – what languages can Alexandraspeak? Well, she is bilingual in Russian and German, becauseher mother comes from Russia and her father from Germany. Ofcourse, she can also speak English, which she calls her‘first foreign language’! Question three: What project was Alexandra involved in? Well,she said shehad to dance wearing costumes, so, clothes, from the Baroqueperiod… and she had to play the recorder at the same time! The Baroque period, by the way, was from around 1600 toaround 1750. And, the last question - What music can be played on therecorder? - Alexandra said that there was loads of music forit, including Baroque music, Renaissancemusic and Medieval music. In addition, Alexandra says, lotsof modern musicis composed for the recorder… although I don’t think she’stalking about U2 orColdplay! Goodbye! The Nightingale in Love (Fran?ois Couperin) |
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