But I wasn’t interested in studying it 8 hours per day and my parents weren’t inclined to push me to do it. Instead, I spent time playing and drawing and putting on plays and generally doing anything that made me happy. I have a hard time believing any child wants to do one thing all the time. But I certainly can’t speak for Alma Deutscher. She speaks for herself, although she’s obviously been coached as much as Marjoe. Modern classical music is incredibly complex - even the bad stuff. The best stuff is filled with so much creativity that I had a hard time thinking that a 12-year-old would have much to offer. Nothing he wrote was really great until he was well into his 20s. (That’s right folks: Mozart wrote a lot of dreck in his early years.) Clearly, he had talent. But as with word writers, music writers need experience with life.īut I hoped that the compositions of this little girl were limited or even bad modern classical music. So I went to YouTube and found everything I could. She doesn’t even try to write anything from the last two centuries. Her music sounds like a precocious child’s version of the music before Beethoven. (That’s almost certainly true because it’s pretty much always true of young musicians they haven’t had the life experience to add anything to the music.) Great Composing Requires a Life Lived And that makes me think her performances aren’t anything more than her copying other performers. Great composers do amazing things with their work. ![]() You might just hear a passage as sad, but they aren’t working in generalities. Many composers are known for putting musical jokes in their work. A great composer will tell you a story as clearly as the best writer or filmmaker. Mozart studied counterpoint with Giovanni Martini, and the music he created afterward was far more interesting. But it was still years before he wrote anything I ever want to listen to.īut here’s my point: he was trying to write the music of his time. Most of it is no more interesting in the juvenilia of Mozart - which he wrote over 200 years ago! The Classical Music Industry Sucks And this supposedly amazing child isn’t interested in any of the music of her own time. ![]() But it is a knock on the people who “enjoy” classical music. And it is a major knock on the people who produce classical music. But I suspect child abuse just as Marjoe Gortner suffered - just in a different way. I’d love to read the child’s autobiography when she’s 50. This all makes me think that this poor young girl has been turned into a trained monkey by her parents and the classical music establishment. Almost everything she plays is something she’s written. I listened to her play a middling Mozart concerto that wasn’t really very well done. (She’s better on the violin than the piano.) Great for a little girl. ![]() Savaged by critics if performed by an adult. (She doesn’t seem to have even been told the purpose of a cadenza. ![]() And why an audience would applaud after the first movement, is unclear to me.) What a Real Composer Createsīut I ask you, do you think the child composer of this: There is no Brahms that I can find - much less Debussy - much much less Francis Poulenc - much much much less Elliott Carter! It’s almost all sweet music by the child herself. And if she doesn’t know it now, she will soon enough. AfterwordĪfter reading this, I read the child’s Wikipedia page. It’s interesting that it contains not a single criticism, despite the fact that there has been quite a lot of criticism of her work. I suspect part of her marketing team makes sure that any criticism is removed. But there is much in there that makes the case that she is pushing against the prevailing trend against melody.
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