'They meet these young artists and are enthralled with their playing,' says Joseph Polisi, president of the prestigious Juilliard School in New York. Faculty members have long functioned as informal talent scouts as they travel around the world performing concerts, giving master classes or serving on competition juries. Not surprisingly, this burgeoning prodigy market is of great interest to the leading international conservatories, which are always jockeying for the best students. 'The joke in some cities,' says pianist Gary Graffman, former president of the elite Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia, 'is that if you see a kid on the street who is not carrying a violin case, it's because he or she is studying the piano.' According to Chinese music-industry executives, more than 40 million youngsters are currently studying the piano or violin. Well what im thinkin is, if you are really talented in somethings, overwhelmed practice is never necessary.Thirty-two years after the end of its Cultural Revolution, China is buzzing with once-forbidden Western classical music activity, building world-class concert halls and expanding its conservatory facilities. I had friend who claimed to be grated as the 10th level of piano playing but still his parents objectively thought that his ability is still not up the level and forcing him to play overnight after finished all his homework, and that happened still by today. My nightmare has gone to an end but that doesn't mean to the others. Glad to say i retrieved my freedom when i headed up to year 6 as my parents believe that academically achievement is more important for my future through balance. worst of all you may recieve what so called 'drastic measure' once you rock up to a pattern and frequently making mistakes. His work has been referred to as 'an American social history,' which documented diverse scenes of American. It's not a special offer for just immigrant chinese group, you just yet to be encountered, I was born in China and found interested with pianos that displayed in the mall while in a very young age, but that's a different kind of a story if your parents brought you one and force you to spend the first eight summer of your life play the same notes of assessment instrumental all over and over again. Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. Me, I just wish I could get back some of that time to actually have a childhood. She credits my academic achievements to the fact she gave me music lessons when I was younger, even though I never excelled at it. Now I'm a bright cookie, I got a dual degree, dual Masters and my Ph.D. I stopped when I was 18, because I had to leave home for university, otherwise who knows. They only need one pianist in the orchestra but I have a higher chance of getting in because orchestras could use up to 20 violins. I do remember mom saying that she had hopes that I would play in the national orchestra some day. And she kept telling me that in order to discourage me from quitting, not that it was a choice anyway. At 5 years old, Jonah already accomplished more in music than most of us could. Mom had to learn the piano growing up and had to stop at Grade 6 (out of 8 grades) and said she regretted every moment of it. Wow, This 5-Year-Old Can Play Chopin Meet Jonah Ho, a child piano prodigy. She only let me join the band or choir in school and would not let me take up any sports. But I practice every waking moment that I wasn't at school or doing homework. Mom said nothing to these beatings - she would just say 'serves you right for not practicing!'. And because I have no musical talent, that bow broke so often that my parents started buying them in 10-packs. He would whack me with the bow whenever I played one note out of tune. My piano teachers hated my lack of musical talent and rhythm and gave up after teaching me for a few months.

Chinese child piano prodigy