Jennifer Lin: Piano Improvisation

Today, I watched an episode of Oprah on kid geniuses. It was very amusing and pretty neat. Anyway, there was one thing that stuck with me though: there was a music prodigy and boy was she good! I've taken some piano lessons but it was on-and-off, and though I liked it, it didn't stick. I do like thinking about it from time to time and once in a while, I'll sit down and play something just to see if I remember how (I do, just in case you're wondering - just a little out of practice), but that section of the episode made me want to play again.

Of course, I would be nowhere as good as her, but it's of some consolation. :) I admit that when my sister and I first spied her on the TV, we both thought of how stereotypical it was that she was Asian. I know this because my sister voiced it out loud the same time I thought it. I thought it would just be some girl particularly talented with the piano and that she could just play well because she had lessons since she was 4 (she was 16 when the show was shot). Well, first, she played some incredibly fast (and complex) song of the classical genre, which fit in with how I thought it would be. Then we were informed she composed her music and she could do some improvisation with only 5 randomly selected notes. She ended up drawing out F, E, G, B, and C.

When she finally got to the song - it was BEAUTIFUL. :) I will remember it for a while longer. It would LOVE to have a copy of it for myself... but oh well.

You can find the YouTube Video of it here.

Oh - I forgot to mention that it was a RERUN and debuted in 2006.