Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
The next Mozart? Just what classical music needs?
Big shoes to fill for 12-year-old Alma Deutscher
Alma Deutscher is writing beautiful and honest music.
Suddenly Alma Deutscher is all over my social media. Is anyone else experiencing this?
It seems as though network television still exists and 60 Minutes did a piece on the 12-year-old British composer. That’s right, 12 years old.
Video:
Alma Deutscher plays her own violin concerto
Deutscher has musical abilities which some are comparing to Mozart. That's right, the Mozart.
Deutscher is not only composing music at a young age she is improvising at the keyboard and performing her own pieces on the violin as well. These are three activities for which Mozart was well known in his youth.
It sounds as though Deutscher has received some sound counsel regarding comparisons. She wants to be the first Alma instead of the second Mozart.
It has been said that comparison kills potential, and I feel that holds true in most instances. That Alma Deutscher has embraced the concept at such a delicate time in life might be more impressive than the opera she wrote at age 10 with a new take on the Cinderella story.
The plot twist is that Cinderella writes music and the prince writes poetry. Cinderella sets one of the prince’s poems to music and performs it at the ball thereby showing that they have complementary passions and abilities. They are soulmates in more than good looks and shoe size.
Whether that was Alma’s idea or that of a parent or mentor makes little difference to me. It works as a plot line, and Alma has written music which is beautiful.
She has said that she is not concerned with how difficult her music is to perform but rather with how beautiful it is. Thank God.
This could be just what classical music needs. That might sound like a lot to place upon a young person, but I’m not talking about a young person. I’m talking about a composer who isn’t afraid to write music which is beautiful first and foremost. For too many decades now, classical music composers have been producing ugly music and calling it original or groundbreaking or conceptual or relentless or revolutionary. Most of it is none of those things. It's just stupid, and ugly.
Do I think Alma Deutscher will write in the mid-18th-Century style for her entire career? Maybe, maybe not. Whatever the case, what she is writing now is delightful, truthful, and — I'll say it again —most importantly beautiful.
Believe it or not, there are some haters out there. It seems inconceivable to hate on Alma Deutscher, but we do live in a haters' paradise in some ways.
Here's something you might be interested in.
The next Mozart? Just what classical music needs?
Big shoes to fill for 12-year-old Alma Deutscher
The next Mozart? Just what classical music needs?
Big shoes to fill for 12-year-old Alma Deutscher
Alma Deutscher is writing beautiful and honest music.
Suddenly Alma Deutscher is all over my social media. Is anyone else experiencing this?
It seems as though network television still exists and 60 Minutes did a piece on the 12-year-old British composer. That’s right, 12 years old.
Video:
Alma Deutscher plays her own violin concerto
Deutscher has musical abilities which some are comparing to Mozart. That's right, the Mozart.
Deutscher is not only composing music at a young age she is improvising at the keyboard and performing her own pieces on the violin as well. These are three activities for which Mozart was well known in his youth.
It sounds as though Deutscher has received some sound counsel regarding comparisons. She wants to be the first Alma instead of the second Mozart.
It has been said that comparison kills potential, and I feel that holds true in most instances. That Alma Deutscher has embraced the concept at such a delicate time in life might be more impressive than the opera she wrote at age 10 with a new take on the Cinderella story.
The plot twist is that Cinderella writes music and the prince writes poetry. Cinderella sets one of the prince’s poems to music and performs it at the ball thereby showing that they have complementary passions and abilities. They are soulmates in more than good looks and shoe size.
Whether that was Alma’s idea or that of a parent or mentor makes little difference to me. It works as a plot line, and Alma has written music which is beautiful.
She has said that she is not concerned with how difficult her music is to perform but rather with how beautiful it is. Thank God.
This could be just what classical music needs. That might sound like a lot to place upon a young person, but I’m not talking about a young person. I’m talking about a composer who isn’t afraid to write music which is beautiful first and foremost. For too many decades now, classical music composers have been producing ugly music and calling it original or groundbreaking or conceptual or relentless or revolutionary. Most of it is none of those things. It's just stupid, and ugly.
Do I think Alma Deutscher will write in the mid-18th-Century style for her entire career? Maybe, maybe not. Whatever the case, what she is writing now is delightful, truthful, and — I'll say it again —most importantly beautiful.
Believe it or not, there are some haters out there. It seems inconceivable to hate on Alma Deutscher, but we do live in a haters' paradise in some ways.
Comments