Forget the few who try to apprerciate other art forms. I guess good music (or art in general) is only good based on how pop culture sees it. Jazz for Jesus: How a child piano prodigy found her way back to the stage. I like how you present your statements above as if they are facts and absolutes, as if you're the gold standard on what is beautiful and not boring. The most difficult thing to do musically is to write a great pop song. Show me a child prodigy that writes his own symphonies? Yawn. Listen to a song like Love Can Make You Happy by Mercy, a work so beautiful that they did it only once. This is the highest point of musical achievement. Including golfer prodigy Michelle Wie, disabled musical prodigy Rex Clack, musical prodigy Jay Greenberg, prodigies with Williams Syndrom, the Brown children musical prodigies, soccer prodigy Freddy Apu, and the child prodigies Greg Smith and Sho Yano. The most difficult thing to do in music is to write a simple, heartbreakingly beautiful song. Child Prodigies Rate 60 Minutes looks at child prodigies.

Thompson is a world expert in the fields of child prodigies. I guarantee that he and those within his small circle will feel that a three minute pop song is beneath him. When we got back to our house I went to the piano and played the note B for. Ask the prodigy to take some time out from writing symphonies and write a three minute gorgeous pop song like these. Play this 13 year old prodigy some breathtakingly beautiful pop songs like Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke, Traces Of Love by the Classics IV, or Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes by Edison Lighthouse. I say big deal writing a boring symphony that no one outside of a very small audience will hear is not the true test of real musical talent. He could play the piano at 3, attended Julliard at 11, and at 13, has already written 5 symphonies. Lewis also hosted radio shows in the 1990s and 2000, including “The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show,” on WNUA-FM and the syndicated “Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis.” In 2007, he hosted “Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis,” a weekly program that aired on public television stations nationwide.On 60 Minutes last night a 13 year old musical child prodigy was profiled.

He also completed a tribute to President Abraham Lincoln - “Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic Poem by Ramsey Lewis.”

His first was an eight-movement piece for Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet. The Chicago native began composing large-scale musical works later in his career. “He recognized the gift God had given him.” “I believe that my father - his love for the piano and his passion for the piano and how he coveted this love and how he protected it - that gave him longevity,” Bobby Lewis said. He toured around the world and performed at the 1995 state dinner that then-President Bill Clinton hosted for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil. Lewis had more than 80 albums to his credit - three dozen of them with Chicago-based Chess Records. Joey Alexander, the youngest person to ever take the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, was highlighted in this piece on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper. Not long afterwards, they were profiled by Oprah and 60 Minutes. During his career, Lewis performed with musical stars such as Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Al Jarreau and Pat Metheney. The UGA Performing Arts Center will be presenting the five sibling piano players.

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