On being a prodigy: Nico Muhly of FAR FROM THE TREE by Andrew Solomon

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  • @grapiken7766
    @grapiken7766 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    All of this subject is defined by class.
    Had this prodigy, which I don't doubt he is, been born into a lower working class family living on welfare, or to parents with two or three jobs, struggling to make ends meet I doubt that we ever would have heard of him.
    I have no doubt either that there have been many prodigies throughout history who have never had the chance to flower simply because they've been tethered to the business of directing every ounce of their being into the occupation of 'not dying from starvation'.

    • @MishaSkripach
      @MishaSkripach ปีที่แล้ว

      He is not. A real prodigy would be porficient by age 10. The strange book of the channel owner mixed different false assumptions together.

  • @wednesday55
    @wednesday55 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This prodigy kid is super likable. I wasn't expecting that.

  • @Scriabin_fan
    @Scriabin_fan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "I started late, I started when I was 11". I started piano when I was 19 (I'm 20 now),and my parents never really supported my love for music as a child so there's no hope for me to be the composer I've dreamed about being. Idc anymore though I'm obsessed with music and that love and obsession is all that matters to me. Music will always be a part of my life and that is enough for me.

    • @MishaSkripach
      @MishaSkripach ปีที่แล้ว

      @@expilectakunai It is unrealistic. Starting at 20 means there will be no meaningfull result. Waste of effort.

  • @AlexaBellaMuerte
    @AlexaBellaMuerte 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    couldn't skip this ad

  • @overthehedgeisamovie
    @overthehedgeisamovie 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    First ad that actually interested me. Really an interesting subject.

  • @isabelled.7732
    @isabelled.7732 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Holy CRAP he talks fast!

  • @danfriend9567
    @danfriend9567 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Figaro is right about everything.!!!

  • @ColumbusWasWrong
    @ColumbusWasWrong 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool.

  • @MishaSkripach
    @MishaSkripach ปีที่แล้ว

    He is NOT a prodigy, he only started piano at 11? By that age real prodigies can play everything!

  • @FigaroFigaroFoofoo
    @FigaroFigaroFoofoo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Mistress" of the contents of William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, and the Britten of Peter Grimes? Kid, your music doesn't show the slightest scintilla of those masters. Let's not embarrass their legacies by citing their names in connection with your work, huh? Somebody tell Andrew Solomon that this kid is not and was not a prodigy. What he is is an extremely fortunate beneficiary of studying with the right teachers and being the right kind of mediocrity at just the moment the culture demanded it.

    • @grapiken7766
      @grapiken7766 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Figaro Gogarty
      He is representative of the new trend that sees the middle classes occupying the arts, talent or no talent, simply because they can afford to do so. It's an indulgence and we all have to suffer.

    • @fourtreemouths
      @fourtreemouths 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Umm... he basically starts off the video saying he’s not a prodigy. get over yourself! Cheers

    • @MishaSkripach
      @MishaSkripach ปีที่แล้ว

      I totally agree with you! i just told Solomon that this chap WAS NOT and IS NOT a prodigy