Beethoven... I feel so fortunate to be able to listen to his music. But it's clear to me that his music can touch anyone who has a heart. I love his music! Beautiful letter! ❤

Helen was probably one of the few people to hear it the way Beethoven likely did.... what a wonderful letter

What a beautiful rendition of insight from someone who could neither hear or speak but could feel and express the joy she felt while "listening" with her other senses. Brava!

Again, Gillian reads beautifully of a woman who didn't experience the world as most of us get to do, but managed to tell us so much in so little time! Thank you!

Good God, Scully, that was beautiful! On Helen's behalf, let me thank you for giving voice to her.

This occured after Hellen Keller returned from London where she also met the London Symphony in rehearsal at Royal Albert Hall. To a person, each musician stayed late without guild remuneration so that Ms. Keller could touch and feel and interact with the musicians, she wrote extensively about it and after getting home she sought out the New York Philharmonic which had already heard of the London orchestra's visit.

I listened a second time to the letter but this time with my eyes closed. Beautiful. 💜 When she first placed her hands "on the receiver" I smiled because for several decades ever since my first stereo at 16 whenever I was mad or upset, or just feeling out of sorts, I would crank up the volume of whatever I needed to listen to, I would place each hand on a speaker and let the vibration flow into my body. It's like I absorb the music. It's so therapeutic. Hearing with my eyes closed the poetry and passion of her words describing how I FEEL the music was a real treat 💜💜💜

Fantastic description of the way deaf people 'listen' to music.

I remember seeing _The Miracle Worker,_ which showed on television when I was a little girl, and I was absolutely filled with awe and amazement at her indubitable spirit. I even learned the finger alphabet because of her and remember it now, more than 50 years later.

That is one of the finest music reviews ever

I am weeping. So thankful to have heard her words.

What a beautiful letter. It brought a tear to my eye.

It’s the heart and mind that listens to music!

So wonderful.

YT algorithms got it right, with this video suggestion. A little late on the suggestion, but I’ll take it. Helen’s description in that letter was just... 😭❤️

Keller never skimped on the cliches and the superlatives. Nor her analogies and metaphors. And heck: who cares!? Everything she wrote (and, it seems, everything she experienced and felt inside) was turned up to 11. I have seen video of a short speech she gave at a school when visiting Australia. There you can see and hear (if you are so lucky) her very soul on fire. The irony: For one into whom very little could enter via the common pathways we enjoy, so so much came back out of Keller. Extraordinary by any measure! She wrote, elsewhere, of a time when she was trapped up a tree during a thunder storm. I used this in my writing classes as a way of noticing how powerful writing can become when we express all the other dynamics in life: vibration, heat, texture, rain in your face, the whipping of wet hair, muscle tension, fear and the throb of all emotions. Everything she wrote was tactile. Kinesthetic. And here it is again in this letter.

What a beautiful letter. Thank you for posting this.

Oh my god that was beautiful. Thank you for posting it.

Wow. Just wow.

Such a lovely read.

There is a movie called “Gas Food Lodging” in which a deaf woman dances to a record through the vibrations of a speaker put face down on a wooden floor... I can only imagine what Ms. Keller felt... 🔊

this was beautiful. I feel like crying

what beautiful words...

Thank you for sharing this! I am glad to have stumbled upon it. I didn't even realize music could be experienced this way, to this extent!

I love her..and this is exquisite! Thank you so much!

thank you, thank you, thank you so much for share this, an utter delight this reading by Gillian Anderson, Helen Keller wrote a beautiful words expressing her feeling in that specific moment of her life, this letter amaze me so much and the fact of what music can make you feel!

She described the music perfectly

beautiful

Incredibly moving.

i love you Gillian !

Thank you for posting! 👍❤️

Superb sensitivity

Reminds me of her monologues at the end of episodes of the x files.

thanks for posting!

So simple and yet so powerful.

This was wonderful!!

Beautiful

BTW, there is a current 2020 reading now, of Margarette Mead to her sister. I highly recommend it. Where is this being read I wonder.?

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Of course for a younger audience it is good to know who is Helen Keller, what where her disabilities and when she wrote this. None of that is said, why?

This makes me so ashamed. Of all manner of things.

I couldn’t listen or watch this. Deaf and blind! Unbearable.

Please continue with British actors. American actors are so flat by comparison. She's reading it, indicating that she isn't inhabiting the person or material.

Jesus...😭😭😭