![]() PL: Watching Maxim grow has been such a great pleasure, and I am looking forward to watching and being a part of every phase (maybe not the "snotty teenager", and I hope he doesn't grow up too fast). Has it been difficult for you to remain ‘calm’ and ‘normal’ in the presence of Maxim’s obvious abilities? SH: I sense that you are not an ‘hysterical’ parent. Maxim happens to be a very sensitive, perceptive, and strong willed kid. I don't see how that will change in the future except to reflect his current feelings and ideas about life. PL: I don't think that Maxim is "imagining" complex feelings, I think he is simply expressing his own emotions both from the music he plays and through the music he plays. If our imagination is not replenished with experience, the ability to reproduce these feelings in one’s playing gradually diminishes.” ![]() That’s why so many prodigies have midlife crises in their late teens or early 20s. SH: How does what appears to be ‘mature’ emotional musicianship emerge from someone who is immature? Here is a quote from a ‘child prodigy’ “I had an amazing capacity for imagining these feelings, and that’s part of what talent is. I have always been worried about making things too serious for Maxim, but I feel that now he is at a point where this kind of change could be exciting for him. A new teacher would bring new ideas and techniques to explore. PL: Since Maxim was almost 4 years old, he has been working with both myself and also a wonderful woman who teaches at our school. SH: You mentioned that you were looking for another teacher. PL: I'm sure it always helps to have musicians in the house. SH: How does the fact that you are his teacher impact on his studies? Our usual problem is getting him to stop and go to bed! PL: Maxim loves performing, and he always takes great pleasure in his practice time. SH: Does he take great pleasure in practicing and performing? PL: This one is hard for me to answer, but I am always astonished by how he continues to grow. Here are his sensitive, talented parent’s answers to dealing with prodigy. Maxim Lando at ten has all the stuff of a wonderful musician already on display. ![]() An extremely generous supporter of young talent, Lang Lang simply is not the musician his peers are. He was catapulted into an international orbit. Introduced to the world during the Beijing Olympics, 40,000 young Chinese children took up the piano after hearing him. The father at one time told Lang Lang to jump off a balcony and kill himself when he did not win a competition. Lang Lang is presented as a concert performer who does not resent his father’s push. One is his mother, a formidable artist in her own right. A recent article in the Times magazine tackled the problem of prodigy. How mature Maxim Lando will sound a thirty if he continues to perform is delicious to contemplate. ![]() Rosen does not want us to listen to the pianist knowing that he is a child.Ī woman seated next to me, whose view was obscured, said, “This is not a child’s performance. The surprise is that he did not hide the guest pianist behind a screen. This afternoon Rosen is impish in his introduction. Rosen, in addition to innovative programming which often introduces deserving but not well-known composers, also showcases up and coming talent. Instead this was another fantastic afternoon concert at generous Joseph Rosen’s, just around the corner from Carnegie. The piano is played with a seemingly facile touch, the music delicate even when it is dynamic.And someone who is thoroughly musical is at the keyboard. If you shut your eyes, you might think you were in the first row of Carnegie and Vladimir Horowitz was performing on stage. ![]()
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