Child music prodigy alma.deustcher1/4/2024 ![]() Even now, when I am only officially certified in mathematics and only substitute teach, a class will not accept my statement that the famous poem (which Belle might not know, because it is an American thing) Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes is sarcastic. To which I would add that most young students cannot believe that their teachers are occasionally multiply talented. Understanding and analysing an English text and being able to write a coherent essay arguing a case is actually a skill that surprisingly few people have!! I believe it is a talent that really cannot be 'taught' - apart from the structure of an essay per se. I could never convince her of the problem she hadn't addressed the question and only wrote one page which just told what the book or play was about. She believed she could be as clever as her brother and constantly quizzed me about why she got low marks for her English essays. One girl in particular in senior English had a brother who was smart and in an accelerated mathematics program. I had autistic students when I taught and they didn't 'disturb' me as I could handle them, but it was often difficult getting through to them. Somebody did write 'myth' but that post seems to have disappeared and that's why jbuck and myself referred to it! Perhaps she'll go on to become a good musician. And we don't need another Mozart one was quite enough. ![]() And her flying about the backyard singing this would disturb me as a parent, not least because of the feeling my daughter was robbed of childhood. Look at her dilated pupils (perhaps these are contact lenses), her changing accents (acute Queen's English in the home and a kind of faux German in Austria!). This young girl obviously has "Savant syndrome", or similar, and doesn't appear normal to me (as the mother of 4 children). ![]() Whatever happened to him? I assume he's now in his twenties. A few years ago, 60 Minutes did a segment about another child composer, Jay Greenberg. Last night, 60 Minutes' concluding segment was about Alma Deutscher, the 12-year-old British musical prodigy:Ĭlearly, Alma's gifts as a composer AND violinist AND pianist are extraordinary, and I hope she develops those talents as she matures.īut it did raise a question in my mind about other recent prodigies. ![]()
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