Wow, this little 12 year old is gooooooooooood! how can people be that talented and get away with it?

Young Musician

little brat, argh i think ill kil him one day

I can't believe he's only 12 He shouldn't be allowed to be that good..... I wish I could play like that.

Lisa xxx

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It says LISTEN: Scarlatti - Sonata in A major K24

what do I need to listen to it?

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When I click on it my 'real player' opens and plays it.

That kid is mega talented, like WOW!

one word: WOW

*adds to 'people to kill' list*

Oh it wont work wwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaahhh I wanna listen.

Maybe you gotta download the latest updates for your windows?? Or directX??
Sheesh, he just looks like a kid from next door who plays on bikes and Gameboys. Life just isn't fair, is it?

Get Real Player

Sheeesh, i think that little kid looks a little pink hahaha

Progidy? Prodigy? Progeny?

so i spely progidy/digy wrong.. waaah

Progidy (noun): a portmanteau word (like Brunch) meaning a prodigy who is also a progeny. Why use 2 words when you can get away with one

Lol, just rub it in where it hurts then...

I was being supportive...I think it is a great word.

I love portmanteau words, and it is great to make them up. eg Alcholiday

Hopefully, he will also have had a childhood and won't end up turning into another psychologically disturbed Superstar of music......need I mention any names?

Gae

P.S. one of my 12 year old pupils gave his lessons up recently at Grade 5 level because he was getting so stressed out between music lessons (Clarinet too) and School Exams and revision/homework etc. Next lesson, I turned up at his house at the usual time because I also teach his brother and he was outside in the garden playing football. I jokingly shouted at him "Busy revising I see" and he looked back and laughed. I thought at the time "At least he was having a childhood as well as all the work" and he had reached a peak with his music after all. He didn't have any interest in progressing further musically at the moment and so both the parents and I had decided to stop the lessons, after many many attempts to inspire him to continue.

I guess music aint for everybody... However maybe with a little bit more perseverance or initiative, he might have become world famous!
sign we'll never know now.. T_T

It depends how you are brought up. I've given up on being jealous of other people. Some people have so many tutors it'll be amazing if they didn't get straight As and above (if that's possible).
Even though the boy is good at the piano, he most likely sucks at everything else cos he spends too much time on the piano and nothing else.

Speaking of prodigies, my piano teacher told me that she once knew a girl who was so good at the piano that she went on european tours at the age of six I think is was. on the plane, she would hold a piece of music and learn it just by looking at it, then when they landed, give her a piano and she could play it perfect.

However, this girl didn't have a happy ending.

My piano teacher told me that recently her mother saw this girl and she was standing on a bridge, just looking at the river below with a big fur coat on and it was nearly hitting 40 degrees celcius! I mean, you'd boil with a fur coat on in that kind of heat. Someone tried to bring her away but she wouldn't move. she had gone mad.

It did say on BBC Young Musician of the Year that he isn't allowed to do PE in case he injures his hand....

I'm not entirely sure about all this loosing one's childhood busines: if someone was doing this with football no one would complain; but because it's music they do. People can understand that someone can want to play football all day; if he wants to play piano all day and is happy what's wrong with that?

jesus, is that true? sounds like something out of a movie... i mite make one a movie based on that for my coursework for media studies

It did say on BBC Young Musician of the Year that he isn't allowed to do PE in case he injures his hand....

I'm not entirely sure about all this loosing one's childhood busines: if someone was doing this with football no one would complain; but because it's music they do. People can understand that someone can want to play football all day; if he wants to play piano all day and is happy what's wrong with that?

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Good point. Yehudi was not allowed certain physical exercises by his parents but he didn't mind. He'd rather play violin ALL day. Who are we to judge?

Having said that, we simply won't allow our girl who's violin-mad to play violin all day. I'd be quite worried she'd get mad like the Polish prodigy who cheerfully play violin all day. Forgot his name! He became mad and died early. It's possible... On the other hand I wouldn't envy other parents who do.

It's beacsue learning the piano is a very demanding thing to do especially if you wnat to become as good as him at such a young age. The three most difficult occupations in the world is being either a: brain surgeon, concert pianist or a concert violinist. That's beacuase you have to be able to work under pressure which is hard.
Someone who plays the football can't possibly play the football all day, they'll have an injury which gives them time to do something else. Plus, people who become pro are usually about 20 or a little younger and that's enough time to learn to become a pro and have a childhood at the same time.
Being a concert pianist at his age would have to require him to study music a lot. My piano teacher told me that if you want to become really good at the piano, you ahve to practice at least 5 hs a day (which I don't do), which is what the boy probably does. becasue of this, he might do theory after or something beacsue you don't have to doa anything practical so its different and wouldn't cause you a problem if you see what I mean.
If the boy does do this, then its no wonder he's so good.

lol. My music teacher told me and the girl was, like my teacher, selected at a young age and made to learn the piano. My teacher didn't work herself as hard though. My teacher said she knew the girl and so it probably is true, its not a rumour, my teacher knows it happens.
If you do that for media studies, it'll probably be real good. If you do do one, can you show me it? I saw a work done for someone's media studies and its soooooooooooooooo cool!

Be careful, Mountain. Don't jump to conclusions. It does not necessarily mean that too much talent or too much practice has ACTUALLY MADE her mad. Connections need be logical, Platoically speaking or as Socrates taught it. For example, a relative of mine is a gifted child albeit not musically. She taught herself to read at 2 or 3 while her high-flying mum had a busy career. No pushiness here, I suspect. She is a walking science encyclopeadia and converses with doctors with ease. However, at 10 years of age, she had no friends at school (not even one!) and had to see a psychiatrist for this "anti-social" behaviour. She's a bit better now. However, she was not necessarily friendless BECAUSE OF her talent or her addiction to non-fiction, is she? She has always maintained that she just happens to like animals and books a lot more than humans! So, maybe, the little pianist was already unusual all along. Who knows?

Don't mean to be rude but does this relative of yours sufer from autism?

No, Mountain, you are not rude at all. No, she does not suffer from autism.

I was thinking about Josef Hassid (Polish Jew) whom experts agree was a fantastic violin prodigy (before his early death) and who has been compared with Menuhin but whom Ivry Gitlis thought was mentally unstable ALL along (nothing to do with too much talent/practice).

Interesting. I don't think the answer could be known. Hoever, I think taht those who are really good at something ata really young age are usually deprived of a childhood, obsessive or something else entirely.