[F_MINOR] Sorta OT: Child Prodigies

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@SFF.NET>]

Did anyone in the U.S. or Canada see "60 Minutes" today? They did a piece
on a 12-yeaar-old boy who is already composing sonatas and even symphonies
and studying music theory. His name is Jay Greenberg, but he prefers to be
known as Bluejay. He hears the music in his head, and then writes it down.
Comparisons have been made to Mozart, Mendelssohn, etc.

A couple of things I found pertinent to the GG discussion...
-- They showed a scene of Bluejay walking along and humming as he heard a
composition form in his mind.
-- According to the show, Bluejay has very sensitive hearing. They showed a
scene of him covering his ears while in the subway. This reminded me of the
photograph of Glenn Gould walking down a street in Toronto and covering his
ears. (This ran in the People magazine article.)

Unlike GG, however, he did not come from a musical family, and he has at
least one sibling. Also, I don't think GG gave any interviews when he was
12. ;-) IIRC at that age, while he was already taking advanced music
lessons, he was still protected because his parents were worried that he
might end up like Mozart.

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