GREENE: You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News. On Thursday, we'll hear about the science of prodigies and also talk about what happens when prodigies grow up. GREENE: That's 12-year-old pianist and composer, but don't call her prodigy, Emily Bear. We're smiling in the studio because of you I mean how could you write a song that would kind of be our friends when it's the middle of the night, and we have the kind of bright enough and to this show? We walk in, we come into the studio and it's really early and it can be a little lonely. GREENE: Well, I'll tell you we had to wake up really, really early - like in the dark - to get ready to come and do our show. GREENE: So I heard that if I come up with like a little story or scenario, you could play a little song for right.Į. She was going to make up songs for you if you made up stories.
BEAR: You know, there are so many fun things to do with you. And I don't know if Emily is still there, if she could play a minute of something else as we say goodbye, that would be great.Ī. GREENE: Andrea Bear, thank you for talking to us. And in just keeping the balance, all of this, and keeping it healthy and happy, 'cause we're in for the - if this is what she wants to do, the 60-year plan not two-year flash in the pan plan. I have a husband and a marriage and three children, not one. And at the other times it's a huge responsibility. BEAR: Every day, every day there is wig-outs of joy and just how does she do what she does. Was there something scary about seeing your daughter.Ī. GREENE: What, you said you were denial for a bit. And whereas the - honestly, quite the opposite. But the word prodigy in our day and age, I think, can be almost overused and also in a negative context where does connotate(ph), you know, this kid that's driven to practice 10 hours a day. This has been so organic and so natural and so beautiful. BEAR: I don't think any of our -us in our family are kind of comfortable with the word. BEAR: It makes me think of like people that are forced to do something that you want to do it, but someone is making them to do it.Ī. GREENE: Emily, there's this or that some people use to describe you. GREENE: My goodness, and this was at five years old - that 45-minute performance. So at age five, she debuted with a 45-minute concert mixing classical, jazz and a third original music including the "Little Angel" song you heard that she wrote that week for her sister. Later we got a call from Ravinia Music Festival asking if she would do a solo concert. And then months later she was playing at a gala at the music institute. So she started four years and 10 months old with proper lessons. It was the touch that you have a piano, it was very weird.Īnd then we were getting our kitchen painted, and she was a little over two, and the painters were like, wow, who's playing the piano. And then before two she was already gravitating and fiddling at the piano. If I was nursing her and I would sing a lullaby, she would sing back to me exactly matching, tone for tone, pitch. There were some signs when she was a year old. GREENE: I wonder when you first realize that Emily had such a gift for music.Ī. GREENE: Well, Emily, I do want to talk to your mom. And it's called "Little Angels" and I wrote it for my sister. BEAR: Well, the one that we have that I kind of know well.Į. GREENE: Is there one of those original songs that you wrote when you were three, that you know that you can play a little bit?Į. BEAR: Probably my first piece was probably written when I was around three. GREENE: How old were you when you wrote that first song?Į. But maybe a couple of my first memories of me writing a couple of songs when I was little, or something like that. BEAR: Well, we've always had music around our house. GREENE: What are your first memories of music?Į. GREENE: It's pretty? Well, can you play me one of the songs from your new album so I can hear little of your music? And I'm sitting in this like open piano room with a piano. She and her mom, Andrea Bear joined us from a music studio in Chicago.ĮMILY BEAR: We're in the finest building in the Michigan Loop.
Let's begin today hearing more from pianist Emily Bear. We'll also hear about some of the science that may or may not explain these talents. We'll meet some of them and chat with parents about what it's like to raise a child who is so gifted. This week, we're going to learn about prodigies. Emily is what some call a prodigy, a child who shows extraordinary ability at an early age. In fact, she's written more than 350 pieces, she's recorded six albums she performed at the White House and Carnegie Hall. This is a tune called "Hot Peppers." It performed by a pianist named Emily Bear.
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