I decided to devote this channel to one amazing pianist and most incredible talent in the world (at least in my opinion) who has stolen my heart (by her music). :-)
This is going to sound strange, but I heard that melody get broken up and shredded to bits then brought back together masterfully. Oh my. What a great pianist she is at 14. As for anyone else's version, how nice for them that they did a great version.
Piano is out of tune. This recording is better in my opinion. For me, it’s a better and slower tempo. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--KbVYP8po_4.html
Beautiful playing by Emily but agree with an earlier commentor that the flying piano is schmaltzy. Kind of cheapens her talent and adds an unnecessary Vegas flavor.
Schtick -- a contrivance, a ruse to draw attention. I love Emily. I've bought tickets to see and hear her perform and I will again. But the flying piano schtick bothered me when I first saw a clip of the Munich Proms concert a couple of year ago and it bothers me now as I see it again. It's a cheap way to get attention. She is one of the last artists in the world who needs a cheap device to draw attention. I can hear the creative geniuses behind the Proms selling her on the idea but I'm disappointed that she and her advisers acquiesced. Yes, she had a great touring experience and yes, a lot of Europeans were able to enjoy her talents but at what cost in the long run? For several hundred years, musical performances have taken place with the performer on a stage set up essentially to focus attention on the performer. The flying piano takes our attention away from the performer. It is in the same vein as her arpeggios, or scales, at end of the Bumblebee Boogie, a gee whiz, wow moment but still a schtick, refocusing our attention from her talent to a basic keyboard trick. Emily is better than this so I get super uncomfortable watching her succumb to these schticks. Essentially a schtick lacks class. It's tasteless. I hate to think that one of the most talented young people on the planet today can't see this, yet she persists.The haters can pile on me but I think her schticks raise a lot of questions. Tonight, watching her fly again above Munich, I wonder again why such a large talent is engaging in such small behaviors.
[Bruce Benson] I can hardly agree with you. Your post reminds me of a documentary about Irving Berlin I just watched. It concerned the song "God Bless America" and the mail the producer of that song got by releasing a song about God by of all people, an immigrant and a Jew at that. Unless you live in Europe then how do you know how Europeans approach and enjoy concerts, especially a concert like "The Proms". What I get from your post is this performance is more about Emily, more about arrogance and self importance then it is about music. What I see is an audience enjoying themselves just as much as Emily is having fun and isn't that what it is all about. As for Emily changing, I don't think there is anything to worry about that happening.
I happened on a video of her at 6 years, so I watched another, then another. After about 10 videos I have determined she is a national treasure and should be safeguarded more than the president, because they're a dime a dozen. What a talent. I've heard her called the American Mozart. She is a one of a kind.
[thomas] Huh!! Don't any of you sicko's read the descriptions available? His name is Alfredo Rodrigues who was also performing with Emily at this festival. Oh, wait!! I'm sorry, I guess you can't read.
Piano, bass, and drum was pretty standard for a trio as I was growing up through the fifties, sixties . . . Everybody works in such a group; there's no laying back. This trio is super delightful. Emily Bear has always been delightful from the first when she was a tiny child.
A talent like hers is rare. She has penned over 400 compositions by age 17, and the ones she wrote and performed at the age of only 6 were surprisingly mature and inventive (she performed on the Ellen Degeneres Show five or six times). And she leads a top-notch jazz trio of her jazz compositions! Her orchestral symphonies are also beautiful played and performed.
