Posted on 08/12/2015 9:41:16 AM PDT by Borges
Charlotte Church turned into a fat slut who doesn’t heed her mother.
She was an ‘opera singer’ like Sarah Brightman.
Many of the greatest musicians in history would be interested to learn that Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony, his Trio in D minor for piano and strings, his Octet, his Variations Seriouses, his Songs Without Words, his On Wings of Song, his Rondo Capriccioso etc
are not worthy of music 'expert' Borges tastes.
I like them just fine. The fact still remains that the two pieces I mentioned are his two most highly regarded.
You don't know a note of them.
Yes
Sure I do. Horowitz’s recording of them is wonderful. Beethoven also mocked them with the first movement of the 25th sonata. And a lot of great composers admired other composers who weren’t that great or important in retrospect. Beethoven also admired Cherubini. Schumann loved William Sterndale Bennett.
Most of it.
firstly, there is a distinction between a performer and a prodigy. Yes, most of Mozart’s pre Vienna music is not up the his last stuff, but who knows how good a performer he was as a kid?
Secondly, just sour grapes; I’m sure the author is a fine musician, probably much better than this old R&B/Rock/Prog whore is or ever will be, but it reeks of envy.
Thirdly, without accurate quantification there is no evidence to back much of it up- few musicians stay at the top for long regardless of the age when they first start to gain notice and professional acclaim. There is a difference between not caring for Lang Lang and not acknowledging that he fills the seats wherever he goes- the first is merely opinion, and like rectum’s everyone has one and they usually stink, the second is a fact and I really doubt that the author of this article headlines wherever they go. For me, I simply do not criticize or care about those who do musicians of ANY genre who can make a living in this ‘long plastic shallow money trench...”
I could go on, but I’ve got to get back to my day job; I might gig 5-10 times a month (playing ATP) but that does not pay the bills.
:-)
Well he names Sgouras for one. Who was a huge name in the 80s. Again he isn’t criticizing the idea of child prodigies but how they are treated and developed.
Well, I don’t know much about opera, but I do remember the tremendous voice of Andrea McArdle in the Broadway show “Annie” as the original Annie.
She never really turned into anything, having to finally play Miss Hannigan in a revival decades later.
I knew a guy who wrote a magnificent 5 movement symphony when only 2 years old and later became the best plumber in 5 counties!
She’s a successful musical theater and cabaret performer. Which is what she wanted to be.
Child prodigy’s are a tricky road to maneuver throughout the changes which occur in their age development....not just how their specific talent “matures” but as they do themselves. What talent distinguishes them when young may very well not develop as anticipated. Which is why they are “featured” while young.
Parental controls on when and where, how often etc. are critical to preventing “burn out”. Some “agents” will ‘milk it’ early and thus burn them out quickly. So parental involvement is critical IMO.
More cluelesness.
Mozart was sent by his father when he was a young child to Padre Martini to study Fux' Gradus ad Parnassum (the classic study of strict counterpoint which forms the basis of all classical composition). Bach praised Fux' Gradus, Haydn studied it repeatedly over a period of YEARS, Beethoven studied it with Haydn and Albrechtsburger and kept his notebooks on it to the end of his life, Brahms used it.
No one absorbed it as young as Mozart did.
When Mozart was in his early teens he wrote the best canons ever written--and lots of them.
His mastery of counterpoint was phenomenal at that age.
Only the clueless with a complete ignorance of what counterpoint is would write
A lot of the ‘tricks’ his father had him perform could be done by any musically gifted child.
But was he a good tap dancer?
I’m well aware that he was as natural a musician as has ever been.
I was talking about the tricks he did for royalty...playing piano with a the keyboard covered with a blanket. Playing stuff backwards, sight reading, naming notes due to absolute pitch.
Yes it certainly is. Very informative. Thanks for posting it. :)
You don't know a note Cherubini wrote.
Every new post you make outs you further.
I’ve heard Médée. It’s less than scintillating.
But keep up with the baseless personal attacks. You’re bound to hit something substantial with one of them at some point.
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