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 VaVaVoommm rated 22 months ago - Prodigy Compared to Mozart
We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history when it comes to composition," says Sam Zyman, a composer. "I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Sans.
How do you react when you encounter an early ...
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- ericpaul rated 9 months ago
- Very promising! Heard some sound samples, and his Symphony No. 5 part 4 is the most interesting. It's a traditional early 20th century style with influences of Shostakovich, Bartok, Bruckner, Mahler, early Schoenberg, and a tiny bit of soundtracks. I don't like the fact that he is hyped so much, (comparisons with Mozart and Saint-Saëns) it's so typically American...
- liquidiridium rated 14 months ago
- A true musical genius. Please visit.
- Lunaticmama rated 23 months ago
- From the page: "The public first heard Greenberg%u2019s remarkable story in a 60 Minutes interview in 2004, in which Zyman said that Greenberg%u2019s potential puts him in the company of music%u2019s most illustrious young prodigies %u2013 Mozart, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns. Greenberg%u2019s works already have been played by orchestras across the United States including the Pittsburgh and New Haven Symphony Orchestras. A premiere performance of the String Quintet at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC is being planned for later this year.
His Overture to 9/11 received first prize in the composition competition at the Juilliard pre-college division in 2003, and he won ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers awards in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Among Greenberg%u2019s most recent commissions are Short Stories for Tenor Saxophone, Percussion and Orchestra, performed at Alice Tully Hall by the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York, and Hexalogue for Winds and Piano, premiered at the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival.
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- nicky187 rated 22 months ago
- Nice to run across something this good.
- VaVaVoommm rated 22 months ago
- Prodigy Compared to Mozart
We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history when it comes to composition," says Sam Zyman, a composer. "I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Sans.
How do you react when you encounter an early compositional gift so extraordinary that you can't even begin to comprehend it? Samuel Zyman, who has taught music theory to Greenberg, wrote in The Juilliard Journal in 2003.How do you explain to others a compositional talent so exquisitely developed at such an early age that you can barely believe it yourself? What would you do if you personally met an eight-year-old boy who can compose and fully notate half a movement of a magnificent piano sonata in the style of Beethoven, before your very eyes and without a piano, in less than an hour? How do you let the world know that the same boy, at age 10, composed a probing, original viola concerto in three movements, fully orchestrated, in just a few weeks?
 nastygrackle rated 22 months ago- the music is the star here, not some kid's face.
let's watch him burn out. pity.
- trebuche rated 22 months ago
- Saw this teenager on 60 Minutes recently. A truly, truly gifted individual. He says the music he hears in his head comes complete. He writes it down and never goes back to check his work. Convinced he caught it right the first time.
- androphiles rated 26 months ago
- Yikes! This is amazing. A modern-day wunderkind in the mold of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and any others you want to name. Not that he's "another" Mozart, as the hype would have it; but Mozarts' first compositions are derivative of his time, too. So the 9/11 overture is clumsy. It's heartfelt and the work of AN 11-YEAR OLD, f'God's sake!! Judging by the music from his fifth symphony, (he's now 15,) he's developing fast. We are, ladies and gentlemen, witness to the beginning of a phenomenon.
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