Posted on 11/29/2004 8:27:37 AM PST by MaineRepublic
Yup..the one and only..
His strength was presented as music composition, rather than playing the concert piano.
Those are two significantly different musical processes if you ask me.
I haven't watched 60 minutes in a very long time. Was in an airport bar in Atlanta when this segment came on. Amazing! And Andy Rooney was talking about the uselessness of pennies and how he changed coins for free at his bank. These are the types of pieces for which I used to really appreciate 60 minutes.
Makes you really believe in reincarnation. Maybe he was someone else in a different life-Bach? Mozart? Food for thought!
Sounds like an idiot savant.
Better than torturing small animals.
With all that in your background, I'd expect more from you than we've gotten.
Did you play at 11 with the same emotional intensity that you now play with, if you are still playing?
Do you really think that your obvious gift for the violin makes you the arbiter for what is and isn't crap? I'm about as opinionated as they come when the discussion turns to music, but I try very hard to remember that "This music is crap" really means "I don't like this music."
Jay's muscial flatulence will never be considered in the same universe as Mozart et al.
This still leaves me suspicious, with all the parents and profs seeming to want to share the limelight, perhaps by exaggerating the magnitude of this kid's talents.
I need to hear the music.
2) That the Pipes are an acquired taste is not news. Mrs. Bustard, for example, professes no understanding of my fascination with them. Even so, she can recognise whether the Piper has any skill.
Listened to the audio. He has a lot of ideas, phrases on the short side, needs to develop melody, rhythms are simple enough, sounds like pieces of existing works. He has a good ear, could work on cadence, improv, tension, and rhythm, harmony, the usual horizontal and vertical. Could pass for advanced music student. He should come to the music festival as a student not a teacher.
Whoa! Wait a minute! If this kid is "taking dictation" from what he hears in his head, he's exactly like Mozart, who did the same thing. Mozart's original scores show very few, if any, corrections. He wrote the music down completely, as he heard it in his head, and then he was done with it. There were never any rough drafts or final copies. The talents of this kid are very believable - we just haven't seen it in over 200 years. And if people don't "get" his music at this point in time, that's okay; they didn't "get" Mozart's when it was new, either: "too many notes!", was the line I remember from Amadeus.
In my opinion the music is modern but not abrasive. It's heavily string-filled, percussion is largely limited to atmospheric (not percussive) cymbols, and the piece is very melodious (not at all atonal). The harmonies are hard to peg. They are not American, and they are not classical.
The composer gives a brief description of what the music is supposed to portray, and I think that it does what he wants (although the collapse of the towers is so non-abraisve that it doesn't express any of the terror of the day, just the tragedy).
I also disagree with those who believe that the music is emotionally empty. I hear it full of controlled emotion and, as I wrote above, it manages to express carefreeness, deep, abiding tragedy and recovery (on a personal level, without grandeur or chauvinism).
I think it's worthy of being played by a symphony orchestra, and the attention being paid to this boy is fully justified.
I heard it from the link posted above.
I would not be surprised to hear this music compared to some of the late 19th century or early 20th century composers.
"Typical post-modernist classical noise"
I listened......
Maybe he could become the new Henry Mancini:)
The kid's only 12. Mozart didn't really start composing until he was in his late teens.
This young man has the potential to be even greater than Mozart, given his prolific nature.
AWESOME!
60 Minutes can't spell Saint-Saens. That figures.
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