George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix

George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix

By Тетяна Шамлій

Handel & Hendrix in London

Two successful and innovative musicians left their countries and came to live in London, the city where music was happening. One came in the early 18th century, when London was the centre for opera, and one came in the swinging 1960s, when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were revolutionizing pop music. Where did they choose to live? In the same building, 23–25 Brook Street...

Multiple Choice

Choose the meaning of the word.

Settle

• A person who lives or stays in a house, flat, or room.

• To start living in a place and make it your home.

• A ceremony for someone who has died.

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

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Occupant

• To start living in a place and make it your home.

• Small decorative items used to make a place look nice.

• A person who lives or stays in a house, flat, or room.

• A ceremony for someone who has died.

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Annual

• Something that happens once a year.

• To practice something, like a play or music, before performing it.

• Pieces of cloth hung on windows to block light or for decoration.

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

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Harpsichord

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

• Something that happens once a year.

• Small decorative items used to make a place look nice.

• A musical instrument like a piano, used in older classical music.

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Rehearse

• To practice something, like a play or music, before performing it.

• A ceremony for someone who has died.

• Pieces of cloth hung on windows to block light or for decoration.

• Soft, stuffed items used to make chairs or sofas more comfortable.

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Funeral

• Soft, stuffed items used to make chairs or sofas more comfortable.

• A musical instrument like a piano, used in older classical music.

• A ceremony for someone who has died.

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Curtains

• A ceremony for someone who has died.

• Pieces of cloth hung on windows to block light or for decoration.

• Soft, stuffed items used to make chairs or sofas more comfortable.

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

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Cushions

• Soft, stuffed items used to make chairs or sofas more comfortable.

• Pieces of cloth hung on windows to block light or for decoration.

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

• Small decorative items used to make a place look nice.

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Ornaments

• Something that happens once a year.

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

• Small decorative items used to make a place look nice.

• To start living in a place and make it your home.

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Venue

• A place where events, like concerts or meetings, are held.

• Soft, stuffed items used to make chairs or sofas more comfortable.

• A musical instrument like a piano, used in older classical music.

• A person who lives or stays in a house, flat, or room.

Open Ended

You’re going to listen to an audio guide to the Handel & Hendrix in London museum. Before you listen, look at extracts 1–8. Who do you think each extract is about, Handel or Hendrix? Write Han or Hen.

1. However, after becoming a British citizen five years later, he decided to continue renting the house.

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Write Han or Hen.

2. He moved in briefly in July, before returning to the United States for an extensive tour.

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Write Han or Hen.

3. There was a basement containing the kitchens, and on the ground floor, there was a room at the front for receiving visitors.

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Write Han or Hen.

4. In the largest room, he kept his instruments (a harpsichord and a little house organ), and he occasionally rehearsed there.

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Write Han or Hen.

5. He bought curtains and cushions from the nearby John Lewis department store, as well as ornaments from Portobello Road market and elsewhere.

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Write Han or Hen.

6. In January the following year, he gave a series of press and media interviews and photo shoots in the flat.

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Write Han or Hen.

7. Over the years, his flat was used as an office, until it was taken over in 2000 by the Handel House Trust.

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Write Han or Hen.

8. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and more than 3,000 people attended his funeral.

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Open Ended

Listen again and answer the questions

1. Who lived in 25 Brook Street before Handel?

2. Why was he not allowed to buy the house?

3. What did Handel use the rooms on the first floor for?

4. What rooms were there on the second floor?

5. Who lived in the attic?

6. How long did Hendrix’s career last?

7. Who was Kathy Etchingham?

8. When did Hendrix leave the flat?

9. Where did he die?

   • What was the flat used for before it became a museum?