Evan Le, pianist
Kids can sometimes demonstrate incredible technical facility at playing a musical instrument at a very young age. I bring you Exhibit A, Evan Le, playing the piano at four after reportedly only studying it for a number of months (try to ignore the MC’s attempts to upstage him):
It’s a lot more unusual for a young child playing a musical instrument to exhibit technical prowess plus artistic sensitivity and even some sophistication. I bring you Exhibit B, Evan Le, playing piano at the age of seven, three years later:
IMO, it strains credulity to imagine that genetics alone is sufficient explanation for this degree of mastery at this young an age.
We may be witness not simply to a prodigy but to evidence of a reincarnated virtuoso. Reportedly, Mozart exhibited this degree of mastery at a similiar age…
My understanding is that the early Christian church accepted reincarnation until the hierarchy decided that theory to be… ‘counter-productive’.
Not only is he amazing, but he also seems to be loving it. He didn’t need a Tiger Mom.
Cousins went to Julliard, i turned it down.. quit playing after Lincoln center and Carnegie hall… cousin played Lincoln too… Arts, Science & Military family.. maybe there will be a interesting wiki someday..
I find it hard to comment given my childhood…
Geoffrey, ever think the bell curve isnt lop sided and for all the idiots and violent types and so on you easily notice, how many good mutants are there?
oh, and you always think that kid is normal, cause its a package, right? but what if he is less social? ok if your singing brown eyed girl and used to be a window washer, but not everyone can exist in ideal soil…
want to know whats worse?
Being one who grew up…
Art,
I’d pat you on the back in commiseration, but there’s no room for my hand.
Well, not really. You’ve insulted other’s intelligence here so often that I’m fresh out of sympathy for your whinning.
A Mozart lover. It is amazing to run into such children in person, they impress not only technically, but expressively. Piano and organ prodigies seem to be much more common than violin prodigies, I suspect strings require more technical mastery than most children can manage.
What can I say, I absolutely hate him! *applause*
–Seriously, yes, pretty awesome. And I hear him playing “loud and soft and fast and slow.” (Praise swiped from either Taylor, Downes, or H. Schoenberg — IIRC, never a safe bet.)
Thanks for posting, Neo.
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Chuck — You make me wonder if he may have Suzuki training.
Chuck – I am glad to see these prodigies in action because they make the older tales believable – even though Mozart et al. have contemporary witnesses’ testimonials, I always wondered if those weren’t sometimes a little informed by hindsight.
They also make me think rather irreverently of Tom Lehrer’s line about his own modest musical talents: “Why, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead three years.”
Just like little Mozart and his sister Nannerl! It’s marvelous to see such talent!
Le probably didn’t get his start the same way Lang did.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/secret-behind-baby-boomers-cultural-literacy
If you don’t remember the cartoon, go to the link and watch.
It’s a hoot — and bound to get someone in the PC World upset.
Schroeder lives!
Another prodigy at age 7 and earlier*. They really are born that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNvAUobb1y4
Leonard Bernstein presents 7-year-old Yo-Yo Ma’s high-profile debut for President John F. Kennedy
Wikipedia: Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a Chinese-American cellist.[2] Born in Paris, he spent his schooling years in New York City and was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half.
I forget sometimes that Ma is about the same age I am!
But, he hasn’t been dead three years…..