Link: http://www.musicstreetjournal.com/eglennieinterview.htm

Marsha and I went to see Evelyn Glennie perform "UFO" by Michael Daugherty at UNT in Denton in 2002.
This was one of the magical concerts that you find yourself at every once in a while. Everything about the concert was different, starting with Evelyn entering the auditorium, dressed in "space suit" clothing, from the rear playing one of her weird self-made instruments, with a long "space delay" treatment. "UFO" is a multi-faceted piece of music that showcases all of her considerable skills on dozens of percussion instruments. Glennie stands only just over 5 feet tall, plays in bare feet (she is "profoundly deaf", meaning that she feels percussion rather than hearing it) and is just a unique, one-of-a-kind artist.

UPDATE - I discovered that Evelyn Glennie was made a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) recently, so she is now entitled to call herself Dame Evelyn Glennie. I always have a problem with that honorific title, since it conjours up an image of an elderly woman in reading glasses sipping tea in a country house, which is about as far removed as one can get from a small, perfectly formed percussion genius from Aberdeen, Scotland.