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Watch a prodigy create -- from four notes in a hat [Video 4:38 minutes]
60 minutes from You Tube ^
| November 3, 2017
| 60 Minutes
Posted on 11/21/2017 12:37:06 PM PST by beaversmom
60 Minutes pulls four musical notes out of hat, and young composer Alma Deutscher takes off, improvising a piano sonata in under a minute.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: composer; piano; prodigy
To: beaversmom
The only musical instrument I can play is the radio.
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posted on
11/21/2017 12:56:42 PM PST
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: beaversmom
I saw that episode of 60 Minutes and was amazed.
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posted on
11/21/2017 1:16:21 PM PST
by
MeganC
(Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
To: beaversmom
This makes me hate myself.
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posted on
11/21/2017 1:43:22 PM PST
by
Paradox
(Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
To: beaversmom
“improvising a piano sonata in under a minute.”
Talk about a pile of horsesh**.
You mean the exposition, development section and recapitulation each lasted 30 seconds.
The writer doesn’t have a clue what a sonata is.
To: beaversmom
Big deal. I wrote a Full blown hard-rock pop tune from a pattern of kick notes (presumably Ringo)I heard on the menu page of some Beatles DVD or other. This sort of thing is too common to brag about.
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posted on
11/21/2017 2:32:28 PM PST
by
TalBlack
(It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
To: beaversmom
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posted on
11/21/2017 4:32:22 PM PST
by
ASOC
(Forced to give a man a fish, he eats one day. Deport him and you'll never have to feed him again.)
To: beaversmom
For non-musicians like me, what she’s doing is simply amazing.
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posted on
11/21/2017 5:09:43 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: beaversmom
The late, great Steve Allen did this all the time on his show, having audience members strike random notes on a piano keyboard. No sonatas, he preferred jazz.
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posted on
11/21/2017 5:47:26 PM PST
by
Company Man
(It's GREAT to be a Christian cis-gendered white male conservative over 50)
To: beaversmom
The video is a very nice display of composition and improvisation, based on "seeding" a theme using the initial 4 notes. As an intermediate musician, I can say that it's a talent not every musician possesses, and—while not mind-blowing—it is rather impressive for one so young to display such skill...
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posted on
11/21/2017 6:17:06 PM PST
by
sargon
("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
To: beaversmom
Amazing girl. Many people would be surprised to know that almost all the music we know and love is based on only the five notes of the pentatonic scale.
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posted on
11/21/2017 6:26:11 PM PST
by
KevinB
(When you drink the water, remember the men or women who dug the well.)
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