Amanda Stevens Me too!

Same. Pure talent

I'd like to see a ballet piece version, for sure.

Same, it’s gorgeous!

Also, as a dancer I would love to see some new fresh uplifting choreography!

That pair of sentences alone is what makes this child a real genius of a musician and composer! Out of the mouths of babes, indeed... Strauss and all the other great waltz writers would be proud.

And this is not an ordinary childs piece, it has lots of subtlety, so many totally different instrument solos were featured, so many subtle varying themes, we are dealing with a real composer here, perhaps one of the greatest in the world today.

@@richard40x You can delete the word "perhaps". It is enough to take a good look on everything she has been composing and playing for the last 9 years. It is an amazing amount of sonatas, rondos, songs, concertos and 2 operas. The last one , Cinderella, is overwhelming. Despite the childish theme, it is not a children's piece, but a beautiful spectacle for any age.

She just made the world better!

​@@vadinhopsc There is nothing childish about the Grimm stories, most of them are cautionary folk tales retold in a time when storytelling was not limited to big budget music and movie productions. Also, I love those sentences, they are true about so much in our world. If we cannot match the masters of the past, we should just make things ugly and badly, why? Why is "relating" in art all about conflict?

Yeah I felt like chills

@Simon Simon I still get that feeling after hearing it at least 100 times.

@@Robbie.Dunbar I am starting to think that Alma Deutscher was literally arriving here in a sense through forces bigger than ourselves - spiritual forces - to help change the tide of the deconstructionist concept of music. The deconstructionists were necessary to destroy the nonsense. But, they're winter in this cycle. Alma is the first few plants of spring poking up out of the ground. The Reconstruction is coming.

Exactly. Gershwin starts with the same tone-poem effect in "American in Paris", but basically just stays there. Alma not only made this spine-tingling transition to "real music" - - but incredibly - - the glisandos of the violins gets *retained* as part of the main theme! Just astounding - every Hollywood producer must have drooled when they heard this - because they realized at that moment that there's no genre of music that this young lady cannot excel in. She will be able to demand top-dollar for anything she's comissioned for.

Absolutely. And you cannot get that grand waltz out of your head. All hail Alma.

I have been fortunate enough to do so. Dear Alma lives up to all expectations and more (Bless Her)

Me too! I’d love to listen to her music live with a beautiful orchestra someday🥺💕

Im glad to live in this era

Completely agreed! She is amazing!!

I was fortunate to have seen (and heard) her for the first time several years ago in Toronto and not only was she brilliant with pitch perfect voice but dazzling with her violin and piano compositions. She was also utterly charming!

idon'tknowmyname I had a physical reaction to the beginning. Serious goosebumps everywhere!!

idon'tknowmyname I had an emotional reaction. It was very strange but beautiful.

Me too. I just started bawling. Almost like seeing angels above a car accident or an out of body experience in music...

Same. I’m tearing wtf

i started tearing up

LOL THAT'S WHY I CLICKED but you know what this is amazingly pretty so I'm glad I got confused 😂

Me too and I thought Alma was the singer haha

My same thoughts too; however I stayed because of the beauty.

You guys got lured in like a mythical siren.... XD

SAME!!

Absolutely, it is very hard to stand the criticism when it comes to making beautiful music. But Alma opens the way... Greetings...

@@rodrigolandaromero You are on the right track Rodrigo! You are composing some beautiful music!

Please continue to compose beautiful melodies. The world is starved for it.

I don't listen to those snobbish people (I bet they secretly listen to melodic music)... I don't care what they think... love the beauty of the old world....

@@BytomGirl Dear Bytom girl, how wonderful that you don't listen those snobbish people, and continue to enjoy beauty. But, I don't think those people are listening beautiful melodies secretly; their souls may have lost all the capacity to enjoy beauty. Also, you mention "beauty of old world". Beauty has no definite location or time; it just happens that we live in an era where it is rare. But, as evidenced with this Alma Deutscher angel, even our world of ugliness have the chance for beauty to be reborn as strong even stronger as in 18th and 19th century Vienna.

I knew nothing about her until this showed up on KZfaq. She's amazing and so young. This is a beautiful piece.

@@Tina-qp7py She is an amazing young lady and an amazing talent, enjoy your adventure into her other creations.

I’m pretty sure she is not much older than 12 years old here. She is amazing.

YES. If we could all do that it would be a different world.

Lesson: the beauty of things depends on our decisions

And man, did she ever suceed!

Philosophy on par with her outstanding music

@@gregzoller9003 this is precisely what I thought as well

I noticed the orchestra was cheering just as much as the audience. They know we are seeing a counter revolution against the whole dissonance movement hacks, that will change classical music, and make it beautiful again.

@@richard40x To steal another quote I read here, by CB: She already did.

@@richard40x Amen to that!

This sounds like a Straussian Waltz. Much better than the Post-modernism 🎼 🗑 🤮

@@richard40x hey don't be so binary, XXth and XXIth contemporary music has definitely brought some new sounds and new ways of capturing beauty; plus tonal "beautiful" music never really got away, look at film scores (thinking of Old Boy's OST in case of waltz)

I hope this piece helped you see the beauty in what you do. You see so much tragedy, but you are a light for victims in need & we all appreciate you!!

God bless you!

Oh Borkish Dork, I so understand your comment here as another health care worker.....

You should have seen her when she was 7

Totally

Where do you think they get all the musicians! I’m poking fun, I’m a violinist.

SAME!!!

@@orchepiaviolinviola Hilarious ! : )

Just watch the movie August Rush about a prodigy boy. Same

Samee😂

Elizabeth YES that was all i was thinking about during the beginning

I couldnt help thinking "I bet they've NEVER played anything like this before!!

It's probably not far away from what you might see from say Penderecki. Pretty crazy stuff. :)

Can you imagine walking into a conducting class exam and being given this score?

I felt that way too-

I think she found a combination that sets a part of the brain off or something cuz I almost cry when this happened 😭😭

Yes! I felt it too 🥰

Concur! Stunningly beautiful in an ancient yet modern twist. I was carried away down city streets I know not where…

Perfect description

Donovan Teo YES I was covered with goosebumps, it was soooo pretty

Right I had to replay that part a few times .. I was shaking !!

Donovan Teo Same, when they mixed, wow.

I started crying & goosebumps🤩

Crying 💫💥💙 the beauty

its pretty amazing

Oh, to be sure!. Must take something special, and the conductor! I'm sure they must be all handpicked!

The violin/viola parts must have been particularly difficult on account of the glisandos (sliding pitches up & down - the 'wailing' type siren), which are difficult to do in unison without it the sound starting to "schmear" together. That transition from noise to real music, while *retaining* the glisando, and having it actually be part of the melody, is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Even Gershwin (author of "American in Paris", which begins an awful lot like the intro does) never got to anything like this. Proof that Alma can even tackle completely new genres of music with absolute mastery.

@@jimwinchester339 thank you so much for that explanation! Great for us non-musicians to know the difficulty and level of skill required here 😮

Coooool! Thank you for your work! What are some of the projects you worked on during your tenure?

What projects did you work on while you were there?

Ya.... This would be really good.

Yes! I absolutely agree!

Why wait for Disney? This could be something big for you.

You've got taste, me too and I'm 69.

Indeed you’ve got taste, and I’m 15. I love classical music to death. Some modern day music are too obnoxious for my tastes

I’m to 15 and classical music is the BEST. NO CARE ON WHAT THEY MIGHT SAY OUT THERE

Same ur exactly me

im almost 14 and we have the same circumstances! i love classical music sm lmao

Totally agree! Astonishing talent. Words cannot describe my admiration for Alma and her beautiful music.

De fait oui..

I've been following her for a few years now. Yes, yes, yes!!

She already did

@@Carolinesthetic Agreed. That opening cacaphony and what she turned it into was just - beautiful. Bach, Deutscher, Mozart.

Couldn't agree more!

Finally 🙌

This version is great. I also highly recommend Alma's transcription for solo piano of this waltz, which she recorded for her CD (from My Book of Melodies) last year (track 11 to 16). I think it is even more beautiful than this orchestra version. The noise at the beginning is much more subtle than it is in the orchestra version.

I discovered Alma on KZfaq, checked her schedule, found that she was scheduled to put on a concert at Carnegie Hall, and was lucky enough to attend.

Indeed 💕🎶🎼🎵🎶💕

@@ilaydadenizoguz957 😂

@@ilaydadenizoguz957 you *knew* exactly what he meant though. Ma'am. He's referring to that sudden change of cacophony into music.

@@ilaydadenizoguz957 and also, it WAS out of key because they were deliberately playing OFF key right before the denouement.

*I* know what you meant Luke. And yes it gave me goosebumps too. I couldn't believe it. It went from nonsense into SOUL real quick. I loved that shift

@@ilaydadenizoguz957I think we knew what he meant. The resonance and the resolution,

Same!!!!!!!

Listening to this for the first time rn Wow

Hannah Lee YES 🙌🏽 personally, this piece was giving me the same vibes from that sad song in the beginning of the movie Up... I cried watching this whole piece as did I watching that scene from Up 😂

I watched Fantasia 2000 several times when I was a kid, and I was seriously imagining what kinds of stories animators could tell with this music.

I was thinking the same, it brought back memories of Disney's: Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Aristacats, Fantasia, Allice and Wonderland...

Your idea gave me like a hundred ideas and I've already started sketching out little scenes for it

I feel like making a storyboard now.

Same here, and then for a moment I thought it sounded like the WWII air raid sirens 😳

I like how many armys I’ve already seen commenting on here. We do have taste

She specifically said "Don't get scared by the intro". You had one job lol

I could feel myself wanting to jump into a taxi to save myself form finals

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Same. Every single time I hear this piece. There's something in that 04:03 transition. Just beautiful.

EXACTLY

Yeah I was not anticipating tears falling out of my eyes but it was such a simple yet ingenious transition that it seemed like my soul wanted

Andrew G. Thank you!

Thanks:))

Thank you Andrew G.

Thank you!! Music teacher here getting ready to analyze this with my classes.

thank you!

I am actually happy that she is this young. It only means that we'll be listening to Deutscher-music for a long, long time to come. :-D

It's what everyone who is not in the music establishment wants

Glad to be in the company of other folks who take melodic beauty serious in their classical music!

@@JimEadon people in the music establishment should just want goof music. I hate how humans always complicate things

She is a child prodigy. Her age is important for the time being. Eventually her art will supercede her age though and she will just be considered an all time great composer of modern classical music. I also just found out about her 8 minutes ago. Down the rabbit hole I go.

It gives me goosebumps💫

Same....

i want to constantly feel that weird emotion. it’s like a relief, such as when you get home after a whole day of stress and close your eyes, your cat purring beside you and the whole world stops and the biggest smile comes to your face, you forget all your misery for a moment. yeah, i need that emotion so i’ll repeatedly listen to the intro part.

@@tunayumrukuz7744 I agree . The fact that this piece is able to convey such a complex emotion baffles me . Props to Alma for her extraordinary talent .

I nearly cried. I fought back the tears, but I felt that, as well. An amazing moment.

ExcitingOnion It very much is indeed

I think the same 😻

Please go find the rest of the performance. There are stunning pieces throughout. Finally she has this breakthrough moment where the maturity of her ever evolving pieces have crossed the threshold into the unforgettable.

Agreed. It takes some crazy level of ability to mimic road noise with an orchestra and then play around with the sounds to make something that sounds nice.

@@Biomirth I couldn't agree more.

same i’m shocked how is she only 16 😳

AXM HP SAME. I’m fifteen... I’m supposed to be a gifted child but this just makes me think I have no talent whatsoever 😭😂 God bless her heart. I heard in an interview that she doesn’t really use too many electronic devices and thinks of them as unnecessary distractions, so that’s probably why.

@@sophiaredwood5825 I know how you feel. Her music is on a whole other level.

I'm 14... what am I doing with my life

@@mamaluigi6949 You are living YOUR life. Don't panic. Your time "to do" things will come.

@@proditorio1 perfect and true encouragement, José 😊

Best comment

Exactly.

More like a city of deserted concrete buildings and when the flute starts, a flood of greens and flowers began sprouting everywhere like mushrooms, completely covering the concrete buildings.

Flute is the best choice 😊 to switch to the pretty part.

You could be right, other contenders are Alma, Alma and errrm, Alma!

@@christopherosborne2453 don't forgot Alma !

This transcends modernism! I dare say it marks the dawn of a new classical era!

Ligeti Requiem pretty beautiful thi

@@BalysSheetMusicVideos Hmmm… I’ll have to check that out because I’ve avoided Ligeti due to the first few times I heard any of his music it seemed rather atonal with no seeming purpose.

It gave me chills!

I would say it begins at 3:23

Well said!

Steven Dorsey Hear hear!

John Lennon, when he was in the Beatles, wrote a song called I am the Walrus. The opening chords are inspired by the sounds of sirens from ambulances.

There is also the movie August Rush: "Music is all around us. all you have to do is listen"

Well said!

Well said indeed Park Min

Im glad to

We are so blessed to have a young person of her tremendous talent. Her music is beautiful presentation is beautiful and I looked I went to Aldo beauty she will bring us in the future

Miss Alma, thank you for setting the example of the healthy and loving protest.

Know that you aren't alone. Write the music that your heart tells you to. If you find yourself wondering if what you listen to is truly great, just ask yourself "Is there MAGIC in these notes?" and you will know the answer.

Geroge Hayek: Right on! I’ve heard that she is getting a lot of insults from so-called modernist contemporary composers, especially in Germany. They are scared that people actually love this music, and they are mad that nobody can bear listening to their noises. So they call her reactionary and try to shut her up.

The dissonant emperor never had any clothes.

It's not childish at all! I totally agree with you and the only place where new yet harmonically beautiful music is made are high quality animations and films like you mentioned, so of course your mind will go there - as did mine ^^

Waltz 1 kidda reminded me of Howl's Moving Castle Ost, WOWWW this is mind blowing!!!!

American composers of silent movie & cartoon soundtracks have been doing similarly for decades! So this sounds very "American" at first 😁 Then the waltzes fly it back over Austria again. 💃🏼

Just proves you are Human and love beauty.

Because the sudden shift of glorious beauty out of cacophony gets you right in the heartstrings. You and me both... and, it seems, everyone else who hears this!

She is 100% genius. Clear, genius. It's such a creative, yet, powerful and so concise musical statement about the current state of culture and composition when it comes to music. It hits you so hard because you know the *truth* of it as it happens, that all this arguing and noise about how classical music is supposed to sound a certain way in the 21st century is just bunk garbage, that beauty is real despite its variation. I'm a picky motherfucker when it comes to classical music, and it also brings tears to my eyes.

I bawled through the entire thing. Couldn’t help it. I love this.

Tear-worthy

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Thank you for sharing your experience. Your grandfather must have had a fulfilling life, as he recognised at first hearing the beauty and charm of this music : that bespeaks experience and discernment. That you were able to gift him this late blessing will surely be a comfort to you. Kind regards.

Josh --oh my god . My condolences.

That is so wonderful that your grandpa got to hear Alma. She is a miracle .

Same!!

Same, stunning piece

YESSSS JUST IMAGINE THE BEAUTY

Xiah Luns YYYYYYEEEESSSSSSS

yeah. imagine, alma and joe hisaishi 🔥

🥺🥺🥺 I can already see it. It’s beautiful.

I can imagine a group of strange Ghibli creatures marching with this waltz at the end of the movie

For certain.

And Mozart Definitely

We'll have to take your word for that, thanks.😀

Lucky you. Bless you!

oh goodness im glad im not the only one who cried

Amazing you got to be there for this historic piece.

Wow!!! That’s so awesome! I would love to see a live orchestra playing beautiful music someday😊❤️

I felt the same thing I was total mess 😥😀

It makes me emotional too. Nostalgic and hopeful at the same time. LIVING.

I started burstinf into tears when the American sirens were transforming to the Waltz. I played the violin for 10 years and have been regretting ever giving it up. One of the worst decisions I have ever done and knowing that and hearing that transformation just let it all go.

I did as well!

@@malorie8557 same that's the part that always gets me. I lose it every time I listen to that transition.

You're not alone. ☺

And not alone...

You're not weird. I think we all felt that.

I cried... Wasnt expecting that!

We understand, we all do.

Plenty of composers do! You just have to know where to look! I am a professional composer and compose my music in such a way. Especially inspired by Bach and other 'greats' of the past. The category is called 'neo-romantic composition'

There's a bunch of neo-romantic music in orchestral film scores these days. For example, film scores composed by John Williams, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams.

Hi John -- one main reason composers don't write in the old classical style is that the best melodies, the "low hanging fruit"-- have already been taken. There's only seven tones in a major scale, and 12 total if you count chromatically. As soon as you string together 3 or four notes into a motif/theme/melody which you find catchy, chances are very high that someone else has already written that pattern. For example, think of the first three notes of "Over the Rainbow". An octave jump followed by a half-step drop. If you are composing today, you can still begin a piece with those same three notes, but what follows in "Over the Rainbow" will fit better with them than with whatever options you choose (in general -- there is still some "fruit" left, but it's getting harder to find). Paul Simon, a great melodist, said that melody is basically dead in pop music. That's why so many pop songs just repeat the same couple notes -- the rhythm and arrangement is where the originality is now. As another example, think of the first 8 notes (which is made up of only four tones from a major scale) of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". So simple, so catchy. It was available in 1820. But no longer. He plucked it first. There's still room for lots of new melody, but less room for new super-catchy-and-super-beautiful melodies.

It takes a kid apparently.

And purity. Beauty can only be created through it.

Waltzes do make you feel good and give such a grand feeling of lightness... sort of the way a great ballet looks.

Go for it!!!

Please do it!!!!

DO IT!

Did you do it yet?

Thank you so much for being a figure skater! The world needs more people like you.

I couldn't agree more!

@Marianne Yes. She has been an outstanding musician (violinist, pianist, composer, and even an occasional singer) for years. I've been following her career for almost 7 years now. And she never ceases to surprise me. What a superior intellect!

Yes I believe she will. She is one of a kind! I love her imagination.

A lot of people hear say it's the point at which they began to cry. Me, too.

Its just indescribable isnt it

No you’re not... Each time....🥲

It's beautiful, I cried

I’m literally crying and laughing at myself

Can’t believe it, wept throughout. Something like, there was a lot of suppressed grief that I’d never see the likes of the golden age of classical composition but she brings it to us and that is very healing

I did. Once the waltz started for real, the beauty of it overwhelmed me.

She always makes me cry. Her music nudges my soul to those special places deep within that are always pleasurable to visit.

Caused me to cry out in thanksgiving and praise to God Almighty for such heavenly beauty sent through the heart of this young lady, made in the image of God. A blessing to gladden the hearts of every soul who hears. How marvellous Alma to have been blessed with such a gift and for such a time as this...

Darren Breeze I honestly did, no idea why, but it moves you

Me!! The transition from the siren sounds to the melody hit me so much

It's a bit long for a ballroom full of dancers. But here's the one she did write for a ballroom full of dancers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6udZ6Wl2dy8hok.html And if you watch closely, you can see her in the waltz.

I also cried straight away. So comforting.

@@hugovonk1886 wow! I did too

It makes a lot of sense. Do you write poetry?

Yes, very true. Dreams. They keep us going in this world~ I have a dream All the heroes who have gone before us have first dreamed and wondered before turning those dreams into a reality, and changing the world for the better

That’s such a cool bisual

Visual*

Thiw narrative is so amazing now whenever I listen to this piece, I'll be thinking abt this!

awesome

And they danced to a new waltz: “Alma composed a very short waltz, "Elmayer Walzer", for the 100th anniversary of the legendary dancing school Tanzschule Elmayer.”

Great comment. The lame critics demand she turn beautiful music into ugly dissonance, to reflect the ugliness of the world. So she turns the tables on them completely, and turns the ugly dissonance of the world into beautiful music. Only a real genius can turn the tables on the critics and make prime fools out of them like this

She won't be stifled, especially not after this here waltz. Haters gonna hate, a term from gaming which applies to music as well. Alma Deutscher will just take that hate and turn it into something soul-mendingly beautiful. :-)

@@richard40x Yes, that is just the point. She is saying I can make an orchestra create a frightful racket just like you, but you can't turn it into a thing of beauty resolving the dissonance so elegantly. Great job Alma. This work will make them really mad, but I know you don't care. We will be with you to sell out your concerts and cheer you on. Us music loving ignorant masses will stay with you. The noise makers will get no praise and love from us. Of course it is our fault and not the arrogant musical establishment dictating to us for a 100 years now.

i hate the way people react to classical music today, they just see it as boring without even trying to get into it or understand it, and then they make the people that listen to classical music feel uncomfortable, as if the music they listen to is better /: you sound exactly like me lol

You are not alone!!!There are many many people from different countries who have realised the precious values that have been forgotten and should be raised as leaders to our world rebirth!!!

I hope you sent your friend this link to cheer them up.

Well said! ❤️ It simply cannot be coincidence that this piece was gifted to the world just as Covid struck. It speaks volumes and is a guiding light to us all.

My favorite part. Never fails to make me cry ❤️

Agree. Beautiful transition.

It's music only a young mind could create

@@user-hm9uq8gk5x yes, Mozart kept his childish side and I hope she doesn’t get changed by the real world

@@yeah2152 Mozart once said "I pay no attention to anyone's praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings"

this modern world is an upgrade in all aspects of life.. we're not being poisoned, it's always been hard to be an adult and sometimes the struggles force us to prematurely grow up and bitter

@@user-hm9uq8gk5x lol not true, i'm 22 this is the kind of music i think of when writing melodies, i don't care for ugly ir repititive awful music like Steve reichs or most modern composers today.