“Lillian” composed by Benjamin Britten in 1929 at age 16. One of the most extraordinary things about the world we live in today is that is possible for people who would have had no way to be heard or discovered to find a large audience. We are all familiar with child writers but much less […]
Music Performance -- not composer
Introduction to Alma Deutscher, Young British Composer
British Composer, Alma Deutscher (born 2005) is one of the many young composers who are invariably compared by TV interviewers with Mozart, the composer who lived a couple hundred years ago. This comparison is more because few people know about how many fabulous young composers there have been. Alma offers a strong defense of herself — […]
Improvisations, “Bee,” and a Sonata by Alma Deutscher, young British Composer
Composer Alma Deutscher, born 2005 Inspiring! This young composer creates a piece of music based on three notes pulled form a hat . Use this idea — words rather than notes — as a model for a writing project. British Composer, Alma Deutscher, (born 2005) is always, relaxed — charming. A child who puts other children […]