![]() To test her composition skills, Scott Pelley drew four notes out a hat, and asked her to compose and play something interesting on her Steinway, using only those four notes. When it’s particularly good, she sets the melody onto sheet music. Alma says music bubbles up in her mind like cool water gurgling from a spring. She is already quite a performer and has been the soloist with several big name orchestras. She began playing piano and violin at age 3 and wrote the music for an opera at 10 (they didn’t say who wrote the libretto). If you are a 60 Minutes fan odds are you caught their feature a few months back about the next Mozart, Alma Deutscher. Many consider minor keys mournful, but to me they are introspective and sublimely thoughtful. My goodness! I have always loved minor chords, and most of the second movement is in C minor (a first for Mozart). While cooking a batch of oyster and artichoke soup I put on Mozart’s Concerto #9, composed at age 21. My library seems to have lost #11, but I remember it well. Will heard it not long after sunrise with breakfast his first day home from the hospital. His Piano Concerto #11, K413, was Will’s first music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was quite the prodigy, but you knew that. You’re in for a decade or more of roller coaster thrills!” Kat told Bret “It’s way too soon to feel tired: you’re going to be tired for the next 20 or so years, and it’s so good that you like surprises. Yes they are currently overwhelmed, but so are all new parents. ![]() Kat and I recently became grandparents! Our son Bret and Alli adopted newborn Will just a few weeks ago. ![]()
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