The really impressive thing is that it sounds like the little guy is able to reach the pedals on the piano also!
He’s sitting in mom’s lap, West TX.
I haven’t done a great job of keeping up with the comments lately. I apologize if this has already been posted. Bari Weiss’ speech at the Federalist Society. It’s about perfect.
I love his expression. Total concentration and enjoyment.
Get that child a scaled down electric piano w/ full key set.
That kid is going to grow up thinking in music and having to translate to words.
Supposedly pianist Evgeny Kissin started playing piano at the age of 2. If true this kids got him beat by half a year.
That kid is absolutely AMAZING.
A rare talent.
An uncanny prodigy.
A genuine wunderkind.
And he has a tremendous work ethic—one can see that “99% perspiration” oozing from every pore.
(Of course, with that third hand, he may have a certain advantage that most of us can only dream of…)
Mike Plaiss,
Thanks for that link to Weiss’ speech. As you said, perfect. As she calls all to fight for our existence, I keep thinking what can I do? I can express my opinions to friends an family but will I change any minds of those already on the left? I doubt it. As she notes, the rot has permeated our entire culture. Sigh……
Nice playin’ kid. Ya got an agent?
20 minutes that should leave you wondering if sanity will every return to Washington DC.
2023 revenue was 19.2% of gdp, the third highest since WWII and we still have a nearly $2 trillion deficit.
I wish Speaker Johnson well in moving back to the traditional appropriations process, but too many congressmen are going to do everything to subvert it.
Per Wikipedia, “Montero was seven months old when her parents introduced her to the piano. She used her right index finger to play individual notes. When she was fifteen months old, her parents noticed she was picking out a familiar tune on the little piano. Three months later, before she could speak, she had picked out the melody of the National Anthem.”
I read from some other site that all this started after her grandmother put a xylophone in her crib.
Here is a 7-year old, from quite a while ago, doing a very good job on one of Rachmaninoff’s more placid preludes.
Schroeder! Get that boy a small piano and a picture of Beethoven – and teach him the Snoopy dance theme.
Hi there. I figured I’d offload an unoriginal thought that I explored a little bit during the drive home from work today. And I might even have hit upon this thought already a few years ago, but whether or no, this time, it was occasioned by my having read a short article from my news feed at work by a passionate wind/solar advocate.
I forget the article’s details and even the publication source, but those don’t really matter, other than that the source material tossed out a couple of stats to the effect that a family that goes without meat and cheese for one day a week is doing the climate-equivalent of taking a standard car off the road for five weeks, this kind of thing. Again, whether real or fake math is irrelevant.
What struck me is that, if the wind/solar crowd is really serious about moving the world off of what the article called “dirty” energy and ‘saving the climate,’ then what this would ultimately require is a total policing of all economic activity (‘economic’ in a very broad sense). This follows from the fact that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and so on are bulk aggregate phenomena, not something localized. I can’t conceive of a meaningful large-scale scenario in which there could be 450 ppm CO2 in the air of, say, sub-Saharan Africa and simultaneously 375 ppm CO2 in the air in Central Asia, for example.
In other words, if one is determined to regard atmospheric carbon content as a pollutant, then it cannot be so regarded in the same way that a chemical spill from a factory or a tanker truck would be, because it behaves and is measured differently. The typical chemical spill or sewage dump can be remediated locally and, on a political level, can also be dealt with locally (at least in principle).
It’s similar to what I concluded some time ago about the concept of socialized health-care finance: once all of the taxpayers (or at least the big-shot ‘stakeholders’) are essentially compelled into ponying up for public health care costs, every individual’s health and lifestyle choices must inevitably become everyone else’s business. This follows, again, from the aggregation or ubiquitization, let’s say, of the property of interest – in the one case, health care costs and the associated money; in the case more at hand, carbon content in whatever form distributed throughout the planetary atmosphere.
(What would that quantity be in liters at STP, anyway? suddenly wondering abstractly – complicated, of course, by the fact that one needn’t rise all that far above the Earth’s surface to depart substantially from STP conditions. Anyway….)
Again, no original thoughts here, but it follows from the above that whole new categories of crimes would have to be invented to grapple with prevention of climate change, assuming that one is serious about attributing it to carbon emissions.
People would have to be punished for driving their cars too much (owners of EVs might be given a greater allowance, but the allowance surely cannot be infinite, so just because one abstains from internal combustion engine usage will be no salvation).
They would have to be punished for owning too many livestock (the existential threat posed by cow flatus!).
They would have to be punished for having too many backyard cookouts or campfires.
And so on. ‘Punishment’ can of course encompass a vast range of, shall we say, negative stimuli, and depending on how seriously a government were to take all of this, said stimuli might or might not be proportionate.
Of course, if there are then crimes to be punished, what else is needed? Environmental police. And a coercive authority to direct that police. And since, once again, atmospheric carbon is a global aggregate quantity, this authority’s jurisdiction would necessarily be global as well, with all that that implies….
Reaching that point in my train of thought, I ended. It would be most interesting to present a climate ‘true believer’ with the above and evaluate the reaction. Maybe some of you have chanced to do so already.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I suppose it was the clarity of the logic that impressed itself upon me this time that made me want to write it down.
Sounds about right.
Have you been channeling Mistuh Schwab, by any chance? (Or his Apostles in Canada and the rest of the West?)
The goal is TOTAL control (and TOTAL adherence) and “Veh hef vays to make you comply”…)
Here’s a longer video of the Piano Prodigy.
He clearly is playing with purpose, not just pounding the keys like all toddlers I have ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48TV-Wb9NQ
The Evolution of Gavriil Scherbenko: Part 2
Wikipdeia quotes Mozart’s older sister about his evolution.
I suspect he would have been playing sooner if anyone had bothered to do what Gavriil’s family did — and maybe they did.
When Nannerl was seven, she began keyboard lessons with her father, while her three-year-old brother looked on. Years later, after her brother’s death, she reminisced:
He often spent much time at the clavier, picking out thirds, which he was ever striking, and his pleasure showed that it sounded good. … In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier. … He could play it faultlessly and with the greatest delicacy, and keeping exactly in time. … At the age of five, he was already composing little pieces, which he played to his father who wrote them down.
Wow, what a young talent, Gavril. Neither of my grandkids is close.
Interesting and unusual first name (?) – perhaps we’ll know him in 10 years just as “Gavril”.
Life is wonderful — and often terrible, to young prodigies. Hope his parents nurture him well, providing for his individual needs …
Thanks Aesop for interesting list; most prodigies start on piano.
I love that one can sit and play thirds and it sounds different than most other music, but also sounds good. I gave up practicing tho, in favor of computer games and more blog reading.
@Philip Sells, while it’s all been said and thought before, perhaps not by YOU. Nor in exactly your way – well done. Laws require enforcement; making laws to create some social effect other than punishing bad actions inevitably reduces the freedom of any who disagree.
Final 3 words:
Jewish Derangement Syndrome
Barry, I’d bet a year’s pay that some at the WEF are well ahead of me in this regard.
I forgot to mention one other element in my train of thought: that being, globally-competent environmental policing really becomes possible for the first time only with the advent of powerful AI for data aggregation across the whole planet. Big Data, etc.
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The really impressive thing is that it sounds like the little guy is able to reach the pedals on the piano also!
He’s sitting in mom’s lap, West TX.
I haven’t done a great job of keeping up with the comments lately. I apologize if this has already been posted. Bari Weiss’ speech at the Federalist Society. It’s about perfect.
https://youtu.be/a6i9VPrj170?si=T8Zgk5tYFeWVVC6H
I love his expression. Total concentration and enjoyment.
Get that child a scaled down electric piano w/ full key set.
That kid is going to grow up thinking in music and having to translate to words.
Supposedly pianist Evgeny Kissin started playing piano at the age of 2. If true this kids got him beat by half a year.
That kid is absolutely AMAZING.
A rare talent.
An uncanny prodigy.
A genuine wunderkind.
And he has a tremendous work ethic—one can see that “99% perspiration” oozing from every pore.
(Of course, with that third hand, he may have a certain advantage that most of us can only dream of…)
Mike Plaiss,
Thanks for that link to Weiss’ speech. As you said, perfect. As she calls all to fight for our existence, I keep thinking what can I do? I can express my opinions to friends an family but will I change any minds of those already on the left? I doubt it. As she notes, the rot has permeated our entire culture. Sigh……
Nice playin’ kid. Ya got an agent?
20 minutes that should leave you wondering if sanity will every return to Washington DC.
2023 revenue was 19.2% of gdp, the third highest since WWII and we still have a nearly $2 trillion deficit.
I wish Speaker Johnson well in moving back to the traditional appropriations process, but too many congressmen are going to do everything to subvert it.
JUST IN: Chip Roy And Rosa DeLauro Have Fiery Clash Over Spending Levels As Govt Shutdown Looms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLtD6kbd-D0
Andre Rieu likes to promote the young phenoms. But of the ones I’ve seen, none were wearing diapers.
Similar to Gabriela Montero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmO8UDmZdOI
Per Wikipedia, “Montero was seven months old when her parents introduced her to the piano. She used her right index finger to play individual notes. When she was fifteen months old, her parents noticed she was picking out a familiar tune on the little piano. Three months later, before she could speak, she had picked out the melody of the National Anthem.”
I read from some other site that all this started after her grandmother put a xylophone in her crib.
Here is a 7-year old, from quite a while ago, doing a very good job on one of Rachmaninoff’s more placid preludes.
https://youtu.be/W2s9QRekyTY?si=P_nSwolKg6sAMVZr
Rep. Chip Roy is on fire. Of course, there is no one in the chamber– because most of the House don’t want to hear it.
“Why does it matter if you’re here if you don’t do something. Put your election on the line. Do something.”
JUST IN: Chip Roy Throws Down The Gauntlet In Furious House Floor Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVFof0AG9U
Schroeder! Get that boy a small piano and a picture of Beethoven – and teach him the Snoopy dance theme.
Hi there. I figured I’d offload an unoriginal thought that I explored a little bit during the drive home from work today. And I might even have hit upon this thought already a few years ago, but whether or no, this time, it was occasioned by my having read a short article from my news feed at work by a passionate wind/solar advocate.
I forget the article’s details and even the publication source, but those don’t really matter, other than that the source material tossed out a couple of stats to the effect that a family that goes without meat and cheese for one day a week is doing the climate-equivalent of taking a standard car off the road for five weeks, this kind of thing. Again, whether real or fake math is irrelevant.
What struck me is that, if the wind/solar crowd is really serious about moving the world off of what the article called “dirty” energy and ‘saving the climate,’ then what this would ultimately require is a total policing of all economic activity (‘economic’ in a very broad sense). This follows from the fact that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and so on are bulk aggregate phenomena, not something localized. I can’t conceive of a meaningful large-scale scenario in which there could be 450 ppm CO2 in the air of, say, sub-Saharan Africa and simultaneously 375 ppm CO2 in the air in Central Asia, for example.
In other words, if one is determined to regard atmospheric carbon content as a pollutant, then it cannot be so regarded in the same way that a chemical spill from a factory or a tanker truck would be, because it behaves and is measured differently. The typical chemical spill or sewage dump can be remediated locally and, on a political level, can also be dealt with locally (at least in principle).
It’s similar to what I concluded some time ago about the concept of socialized health-care finance: once all of the taxpayers (or at least the big-shot ‘stakeholders’) are essentially compelled into ponying up for public health care costs, every individual’s health and lifestyle choices must inevitably become everyone else’s business. This follows, again, from the aggregation or ubiquitization, let’s say, of the property of interest – in the one case, health care costs and the associated money; in the case more at hand, carbon content in whatever form distributed throughout the planetary atmosphere.
(What would that quantity be in liters at STP, anyway? suddenly wondering abstractly – complicated, of course, by the fact that one needn’t rise all that far above the Earth’s surface to depart substantially from STP conditions. Anyway….)
Again, no original thoughts here, but it follows from the above that whole new categories of crimes would have to be invented to grapple with prevention of climate change, assuming that one is serious about attributing it to carbon emissions.
People would have to be punished for driving their cars too much (owners of EVs might be given a greater allowance, but the allowance surely cannot be infinite, so just because one abstains from internal combustion engine usage will be no salvation).
They would have to be punished for owning too many livestock (the existential threat posed by cow flatus!).
They would have to be punished for having too many backyard cookouts or campfires.
And so on. ‘Punishment’ can of course encompass a vast range of, shall we say, negative stimuli, and depending on how seriously a government were to take all of this, said stimuli might or might not be proportionate.
Of course, if there are then crimes to be punished, what else is needed? Environmental police. And a coercive authority to direct that police. And since, once again, atmospheric carbon is a global aggregate quantity, this authority’s jurisdiction would necessarily be global as well, with all that that implies….
Reaching that point in my train of thought, I ended. It would be most interesting to present a climate ‘true believer’ with the above and evaluate the reaction. Maybe some of you have chanced to do so already.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I suppose it was the clarity of the logic that impressed itself upon me this time that made me want to write it down.
Sounds about right.
Have you been channeling Mistuh Schwab, by any chance? (Or his Apostles in Canada and the rest of the West?)
The goal is TOTAL control (and TOTAL adherence) and “Veh hef vays to make you comply”…)
Here’s a longer video of the Piano Prodigy.
He clearly is playing with purpose, not just pounding the keys like all toddlers I have ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48TV-Wb9NQ
The Evolution of Gavriil Scherbenko: Part 2
Wikipdeia quotes Mozart’s older sister about his evolution.
I suspect he would have been playing sooner if anyone had bothered to do what Gavriil’s family did — and maybe they did.
There appear to be quite a few music prodigies of note (although still under a hundred over a couple of centuries in the West).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_music_prodigies
Wow, what a young talent, Gavril. Neither of my grandkids is close.
Interesting and unusual first name (?) – perhaps we’ll know him in 10 years just as “Gavril”.
Life is wonderful — and often terrible, to young prodigies. Hope his parents nurture him well, providing for his individual needs …
Thanks Aesop for interesting list; most prodigies start on piano.
I love that one can sit and play thirds and it sounds different than most other music, but also sounds good. I gave up practicing tho, in favor of computer games and more blog reading.
@Philip Sells, while it’s all been said and thought before, perhaps not by YOU. Nor in exactly your way – well done. Laws require enforcement; making laws to create some social effect other than punishing bad actions inevitably reduces the freedom of any who disagree.
Final 3 words:
Jewish Derangement Syndrome
Barry, I’d bet a year’s pay that some at the WEF are well ahead of me in this regard.
I forgot to mention one other element in my train of thought: that being, globally-competent environmental policing really becomes possible for the first time only with the advent of powerful AI for data aggregation across the whole planet. Big Data, etc.