Touch the Sound Touch the Sound Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989, collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she perceives sound. The film appeared at over 20 film festivals across the world, and won several awards, including "Best Documentary" at the 2004 BAFTA Awards, Scotland. A soundtrack of "Touch the Sound" featuring Glennie and Frith, plus additional music and sounds from the film, was released
Ernest Glennie in the inaugural South against North Island match in 1897, Glennie was selected for the 11-match tour of Australia, that same year. Glennie played in six matches on the tour, three of these played as a wing-forward (modern day flanker), two as a halfback and one as a five-eighth. He scored four tries as an All Black totalling twelve points. Ernest Glennie Ernest Glennie (8 February 1870— 16 July 1908) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks in 1897. His positions of choice were halfback, five-eighth and wing-forward. He was