Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Music to our ears

According to people who should know, Jay Greenberg, 12, is the greatest musical prodigy in 200 years. Greenberg, who has an Israeli mother, has already written five full-length symphonies, which he says just come into his head.
"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."
Zyman teaches music theory to Jay at the Juilliard School in New York City, where he’s been teaching for 18 years.
With that kind of talent, maybe Greenberg can come up with a good alternative to the Hanukka Song?

UPDATE: Ha'aretz, incidentally, is running a whole feature on the highly successful Israeli talent at Juilliard. Not a word on the Israeli offspring prodigy....

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