Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!
Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Topic: America's Most Talented Kid  (Read 2709 times)

Offline emotionsickness

  • PS Silver Member
  • Newbie
  • ***
  • Posts: 14
America's Most Talented Kid
on: May 03, 2003, 09:06:30 PM
DId any of you guys see it last night?  There was a 13-year-old named Agape Chen who played a very famous piece in the round right before the finals, and i am having the most difficult time finding out what the name of it was!  if anyone could help, i'd GREATLY appreciate it!

sophie
Logged

Offline 10Fingers

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 55
Re: America's Most Talented Kid
Reply #1 on: May 03, 2003, 10:53:37 PM
Hey,

I did not see it, but heard of it. This little prodigy was playing part of Chopin's fantasy impromptu (only the hardest part to show off the technique) and a part of a Grieg concerto.
It was awful, that kid only played the most diffucult extracts of well-known pieces and yet  beated the other contestants. very strange...
Logged

Offline amee

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 506
Re: America's Most Talented Kid
Reply #2 on: May 04, 2003, 02:56:05 AM
I didn't see it either, but I heard the concerto he played by Grieg was the one in A minor.
Logged
"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties." - Frederic Chopin

Offline chopinetta

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 402
Re: America's Most Talented Kid
Reply #3 on: May 04, 2003, 03:48:11 AM
oh... the fantasie-impromptu... piece of cake!!! i can do that!




the intro only, hehehe!!!




just WOW WOW WOW!!!

howd he do that?
Logged
"If I do not believe anymore in tears, it is because I see you cry." -Chopin to George Sand
"How repulsive this George Sand is! is she really a woman? I'm ready to doubt it."-Chopin on George Sand

Offline 10Fingers

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 55
Re: America's Most Talented Kid
Reply #4 on: May 04, 2003, 11:17:47 AM
it was a she ...
and she neither played it well nor did it look good (she moved around like she's exaggerating).
Logged

Offline chopinetta

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 402
Re: America's Most Talented Kid
Reply #5 on: May 04, 2003, 02:04:06 PM
what a she??

ooookkkkaaayyy...


exaggerating? well, if you saw cecille licad you'd say she's more of dancing than playing the piano.

but still she's so good! she played with the orchestra at age 6!
Logged
"If I do not believe anymore in tears, it is because I see you cry." -Chopin to George Sand
"How repulsive this George Sand is! is she really a woman? I'm ready to doubt it."-Chopin on George Sand
Pages: [1]   Go Up
For more information about this topic, click search below!

Piano Street Magazine:
Women and the Chopin Competition: Breaking Barriers in Classical Music
The piano, a sleek monument of polished wood and ivory keys, holds a curious, often paradoxical, position in music history, especially for women. While offering a crucial outlet for female expression in societies where opportunities were often limited, it also became a stage for complex gender dynamics, sometimes subtle, sometimes stark. From drawing-room whispers in the 19th century to the thunderous applause of today’s concert halls, the story of women and the piano is a narrative woven with threads of remarkable progress and stubbornly persistent challenges. Read more
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert