TantasticOne:: like you, millions are prejudiced because the CHROMATIC HARMONICA is a little musical instrument apparently a toy, but it requires talent and hard study to play like this kid.

Watch this video for another example of the chromatic harmonica: watch?v=AzY_KZTSXJk

, este chico es un músico excepcional

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMlzZpBqlq-mm4U.html I'm here!

Henry, those thumbs down must be from people who really don't understand what musical discourse is. So, those thumbs down are directed for themselves. Nobody loves what he doesn't know.

Yessss!

That's it, unfortunately.

Like it very much. Beautiful performance.

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This is for Russell Miller.I would have been very impressed if you would have just said that that kid has talent.And who the hell are you for him to impress YOU.I would love to have seen and heard YOU play that piece one year younger than him,but all you can say is he wasnt bad,when you sat through the piece.....Heres one for you Russ go spend the afternoon at second cup and count all the saucers and inspect them to see if they are all round...Like Archie Bunker used to say to Edith ...STIFLE YOURSELF because you have nothing positive to contribute here

And Martin you got that right in spades ...the Kid is Great and will be a force to be reconed with later on in life

Lighten up, atyourservicable...he'll probably be an engineer or scientist later; he's good(I couldn't find Miller's comment that set you off, but the gist of your reply would indicate you weren't impressed with it...).

@@atyourserviceable. Sometimes one just got to do a bodyslam... to defend a little boy who's delivering a heavenly piece of music. Go Go @atyourserviceable !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+P LF If I even considered playing this song in public, I would not do so without my sheet music...and a spare harmonica within reach in case a reed gets stuck or goes flt. That kid is an amazing musician!

P LF sorry to to tell you have underestimated the professional players ,just on the basis of youtube . several players u can find around u ,then comment.

EXACTLY

Instead of 'recital' I read 'rectal' to where those thumbs rightfully belong... ;) well said..

I suspect their ears are blocked by pointy white hoods.

+MrSkylark1 muito interessante gaita

+ William Lee. They are both excellent. However their circumstances are very different. the excellent, amateur I imagine, Harmonica player has, in all likelihood, been learning and perfecting his performance for a number of - probably many - months, if not a year or more, so has learnt it without a great effort, probably effortlessly; the presumably professional ( judging by his performance of a taxing piece of accompaniment - without a page-turner as well, I note,) pianist has probably had sight of this music for a matter of a day or days, probably a week at most, and possibly only a matter of hours depending on how many other contestants he has had to accompany. Sight reading is his stock-in-trade of course, but they may have only had time for a few run - throughs - maybe even only a couple, or even one - of the music together. This I gather from the slight hesitancy at a few key junctions, though I think they are very sensitive to one another. Others have commented on the balance between the players; there is nothing magical about that - it is the job of the accompanist to be sensitive to the instrumentalist(s)/ vocalist(s) they are accompanying and only a poor one ( which this one isn't) would drown or overbalance the soloist/ ensemble.

I'm sure they both know it by heart.

+Dead White Male. And your evidence for this conclusion is?

Simply..........Listen....How the kid uses all resources A TEMPO.....he makes me believe in human being.....

patrick Koh my thoughts exactly

One has to assume they can all do better.

Agree very good. - Hey Brasilians have a nice player too kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6-jppWC0tPHZZ8.html

:) you're right about the second statement. But I think you meant the Japanese in your first.

Hmmm... judging by the fact that most of the videos posted by this family appear to come from Honk Kong... isn´t that China?

E. Diaz del Campo a

Just amazing. Regardless of age.

Who says that?

Judy Jae He is pretty amazing isn't he? Believe me the next time I board a United flight I'll remember this young man!

ashnabwa7d what an amazing kid! The pianist came in at the wrong time and the kid totally fixed it just like that!

hahahaahaha....my sentiments also

Don't do that give it to a kid that can hopefully follow this kid.

Lol

Hahahahaha! xD You made me laugh!

How nice to hear the harmonica again very few people play this instrument and boy can this kid play ,just wonderful and one of my favourite tunes .

bartolomochristofari

Well it is right next to a microphone

The piano is also in front of microphones.

GrassPossum Yes but they can mix the volumes of the instruments such that the sound is balanced in the recording

bartolomochristofari the blues harp is able to cut through even a symphonic band playing mezzo-forte.

Supposedly, Gershwin composed this song with Larry Adler (the late , great chromatic harmonica player in mind.

It's NOT a song. It's a PIECE!.... scored for piano and orchestra!

@Milton Moore Why does it matter so much to you

@@mysty1353 Thanks for that - I had never heard of the link beetween Larry Adler and George Gershwin. I just looked it up, and there was some sort of link between them - but I'm not sure that it's what you believe it to be. Gershwin wrote the orchestral composition Rhapsody in Blue in 1924 (at the age of 26). Larry Adler was born February 10, 1914, so he would have been 10 years old when Gershwin was writing RiB. I see that Adler became a great exponent of the piece, and may have worked with Gershwin in writing a harmonica arrangement of it - though I can't find any evidence of even that. Gershwin lived 12 years after writing it. There's a nostalgic KZfaq here of Larry Adler playing duet with George Gershwin - but it's nostalgic because Gershwin isn't there. It's a player piano - supposedly using a roll played by Gershwin - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJ2gdsh7y6qvZqM.html Incidentally, if I may also enter the fray - I also think of a "song" as something that is sung, with words. It is defined on ther Internet as "a short musical composition of words and music." Rhapsody in Blue has no words. I think the error may come from MP3 players, which refer to each track as a "song" because they are designed for playing songs - but mine is used almost exclusively for playing audiobooks - and it refers to each chapter as a "song".

nemo227 maybe your harmonicas aren't chromatic?

Yeah, they have chrome on them . . . :-)

@@SpaghettiToaster He was joking.

@@gerontodon Yeah, he was actually correct. Mine are very simple. I was just starting to check prices on a professional chromatic harmonica before I inadvertently clicked on this.

Concordo ele foi muito bem

Jun Baldoz MY SHIT ON THIS MUSIC PERVERSIONIST NAMED GUERSHWIN ..HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED GUERSHLOSE

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