I love how Mr. Zander caters to her talent. She does play so beautifully, and I love that he took the moment to encourage her and foster her growth. What a true treasure.
I just bought my first piano today. And watching a child who is probably 5 times younger than me play such elegant pieces is just awe-inspiring. And I agree with Benjamin in that music needs more pianists like Ziling!
Him not critiquing her is very important. She’s so young and plays so well. She’s having fun and enjoying what she plays. She’ll be a teen then adult soon enough. harsh critiques, for the most part, are not appropriate at any age. In addition, she obviously has a great piano teacher. It’s best for her to be critiqued by the person who knows her ability best, her piano teacher. it's my opinion that she isn’t old enough to have put in the time to be at a professional level yet. All of that’s in the near future. For now, let her enjoy playing and not have any expectations good or bad regarding her abilities. She will hit that level on her own. At that time, she will be very aware of her weaknesses and strengths. She will completely understand what she needs to work on. There’s no way of knowing if this is her destiny. Only time will tell us. She will have a better chance at becoming a virtuoso by allowing her to be a kid today. Pleanty if time for the harsh reality and brutal training in her Indevour to become a professional pianist.
@@BrianJonson definitely. Some pianist i know whos been playing for more than her age cant even play that well. Shes definitely born with musical intelligence
@@leopold23756 Wrong.But if you don't hear similarities to ragtime in this composition , then you probably don't play the piano.It has nothing to do with how she plays because she plays beautifully.
I thought his evaluation was perfect. It is the ability to interpret the music that seems important to me. Music does have room for her; I hope she can expand her horizons beyond classical music although it is an enormous and complex landscape of course. It is like hearing a very young Mozart playing music of his time like a child should. When I was learning piano at 12 I always tried to play like an adult , emulating the composer, trying to fulfill the piano teacher's expectations without playing the music as an older child. Another way of making the point is that she has more than the talent and discipline of a typical prodigy of music or the visual arts but can express herself remarkably, as the sweet person the Master Teacher attributes to her.
Having said that; appreciating that one central message is probably most important for her: Music needs you and if you enjoy performing there will be always be an audience for you if you work hard. Nevertheless I hope that another master teacher could provide some practical advice with regards to balances of time in practicing etc as well as technical goals and procedures to get better without sacrificing her musicality.
After watching your talk about classical music I am now watching her head. I never thought about the times pianists do that but they all do. Even adults who have been playing for years! So now I’m barely listening to her play. I’m too busy following her head up and down!
When a person love and enjoy music and know what to do, he/she wants a soulmate and mentor, not for skill but for enlightening the meaning . Music is something leading people to high level being as divine.
We lived in Thailand for 4 years. In all shopping centres, there is a floor devoted to private teaching so many schools will have a premises there. They usuall include cookery, music, English and Maths. After school and at weekends, many children are taken there by their mothers, so they can have 3 hours of tuition, while the mothers have lunch, do their nails and go to the hairdresser. For £8 per hour, the mothers consider this better than leaving their kids to their own devices with friends, who may be up to no good. That is the upside and you can see the logic behind it. The downside is that some children work a 18 hour day, with forced attendance at one club or another, without a break and they look and are exhausted, and there is no let up. A friend of mine was asked by her mother if she would teach her daughter English on Saturday evenings from 6-9pm. It was being used as a cheap form of baby-sitting and my friend was not deceived. The young girl had 3 hours of Maths (am), 3 hours f tennis (pm) and the mother still wasn't giving her a break to socialise or rest. When my firned her what the schedule was, she said no. The mother asked why not. My friend said 'because she is a little girl who needs to have a break, get some sleep and play with her friends." The music schools do concerts most weeks, and anyone can walk in and listen. They get used to this from an early age, which is why they perform so well, but you have to know the shadow side of this. It's good if this little girl loves to play, but this is not always the case. Some of it is torture for some kids. I've seen it. . ... Regarding my other comment, it's fine not to critique, but if the parents were paying him, I am not so sure I would have been so happy to walk away without any further guidance. For example, one thing which a lot of young musicians don' t seem to do is research the composer's life and understand when the piece was composed, what was going on in the composer's life at the time and ask whether the piece was written 'merely' out of duty to a commissioning party (written on contract to a specific deadline and therefore more of a chore for the composer) or formed a personal composition which was a means of overcoming something in their life, for example. A piece by Rachmaninov immediately comes to mind while I'm writing this - one example of many that I could quote, and not just in his life. It was written after a friend of his died and in direct response to that. If you don't look that up, and take that on board, you have no chance of giving it anything like the meaning it needs to have. I've asked players before now if they know when the piece they chose to play was composed and what they could tell me about the composer - and it is surprising how little they are able to say. That is a missed opportunity, as far as I am concerned. This girl may be a little too young to do this yet, but as you get older, you can do this and it would add greatly to how you play a piece. This is just one example of the kind of stewardship you can offer to someone who is starting out, even if you are not going to critique their playing. Another is about practice time. After 5 hours of playing, the lactic acid in your muscles is so high, that you will mostly not be able to achieve much in the following hours, so it is important to rest every 2.5 hours for at least an hour, to allow it to settle. It is significant that students who arrive at Julliard don't seem to know this and have to have it pointed out to them by their lecturers.... 4 hours of productive practice split into two parts, is better than 5-6 hours non-stop as some students were doing, during which their output drops to 50% or less after around 3 hours. This too could have been mentioned to her guardian.... Don't get me wrong. I really like this man, but I feel he wasted an opportunity here.
Wish they would care about music and classical music etc in my country but it's really hard, even my parents are threating me to break my 61 key keyboard, hope she will be very succesfull
I thought this was supposed to show him teaching her something? Why hasn't this been included? She plays beautifully, but I don't feel it's right to label something a Masterclass if that is not what you are going to show!
It was a master class but the child had mastered the piece! There was nothing more to be taught and his words after she performed were to acknowledge and reassure the child's parents that yes, indeed this is someone who can have a career in music.
I agree partly - I was looking to watch a masterclass, as his masterclasses are amazing. However now I'm overwhelmed by his wisdom. Even I as a good but amateur player could have given her tips on expression and musicality. She lacks musical maturity, but who can blame her for that? Instead of criticing her, Ben Zander knew it was time for encouragement and not for criticism. Truly inspiring.
This was a masterclass in showing that critique is not always warranted because some times... it just isn’t! The teacher recognized the child had great technique fundamentals (and will doubtless perfect them as time goes by; it is very clear she is working hard at it), that she loved the music she played and that she genuinely enjoyed performing. There is nothing more to add at that point, a child who has those characteristics will interpret music to her full capacity (under those circumstances, it’s much easier for children to interpret music compared to adults, who are much more distant from his affective center/source/being - children have a much more immediate connection with their inner being). Of course she will perform them according to her own aesthetics, and those can mature over time, but aesthetics is a very personal/esoteric matter and there is no forcing them (that could only do harm to the honesty and geniality of the artist). All that matter for this child to be a marvelous adult performer is for her to keep growing mentally and emotionally and for her to keep loving music the way she does now. So the teacher saw that all he could offer was to provide words of kindness to help that spark along. A great lesson to all of us from a “master” to recognize he has no valuable criticism to add and for him being honest/confident/sensitive enough to explicitly acknowledge that very thing.
What is stranger to me is that people of other persuasions do not appreciate and cultivate the basic talents most people have and blame people with more disciplined or cultivative approaches for the perceived deficits of their own creed. Certainly there can be statistically measurable tendencies for certain talents and physical abilities, but it is the recognition of native talents that seems most important to me.
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He obviously doesn't feel right critiquing her so he would rather build her confidence. Such class by Benjamin
I love how Mr. Zander caters to her talent. She does play so beautifully, and I love that he took the moment to encourage her and foster her growth. What a true treasure.
To be playing for Maestro Zander is a great honor. She will always cherish the memory
I just bought my first piano today. And watching a child who is probably 5 times younger than me play such elegant pieces is just awe-inspiring.
And I agree with Benjamin in that music needs more pianists like Ziling!
lucy yin I hope you are doing well with your playing and with your dreams :)
Her parents don't feed her if she gets it wrong 🤣
Incredible, absolutely incredible. Brings tears of joy to my eyes.
Him not critiquing her is very important. She’s so young and plays so well. She’s having fun and enjoying what she plays. She’ll be a teen then adult soon enough. harsh critiques, for the most part, are not appropriate at any age. In addition, she obviously has a great piano teacher. It’s best for her to be critiqued by the person who knows her ability best, her piano teacher. it's my opinion that she isn’t old enough to have put in the time to be at a professional level yet. All of that’s in the near future. For now, let her enjoy playing and not have any expectations good or bad regarding her abilities. She will hit that level on her own. At that time, she will be very aware of her weaknesses and strengths. She will completely understand what she needs to work on. There’s no way of knowing if this is her destiny. Only time will tell us. She will have a better chance at becoming a virtuoso by allowing her to be a kid today. Pleanty if time for the harsh reality and brutal training in her Indevour to become a professional pianist.
Nothing like a prodigy to humiliate the rest of us. :-)
Amen to that! I feel so humbled!
I mean her parents probably pay 120 for an hour long lesson 3 times a week and she's been practicing many hours a day for years so.....
@@beardedrake9983 more than lessons. This is raw talent. Yes, she works hard but she has genetics on her side when it comes to music.
@@BrianJonson definitely. Some pianist i know whos been playing for more than her age cant even play that well. Shes definitely born with musical intelligence
Nothing like Alma Deutscher, to humiliate other prodigies in similar fashion.
This Chopin piece sounds like a ragtime a little. She play beautifully.
You could definitely make this a solid ragtime
i bet you cannot even play the piano?
@@leopold23756 what does that have to do with the above comment
@@leopold23756 Wrong.But if you don't hear similarities to ragtime in this composition , then you probably don't play the piano.It has nothing to do with how she plays because she plays beautifully.
I just scrolled down here to check if anyone else had said this.
She plays GREAT ! WELL DONE ! WHAT TO SAY.. she play is in her style, its PERFECT ! BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!
I thought his evaluation was perfect. It is the ability to interpret the music that seems important to me. Music does have room for her; I hope she can expand her horizons beyond classical music although it is an enormous and complex landscape of course. It is like hearing a very young Mozart playing music of his time like a child should. When I was learning piano at 12 I always tried to play like an adult , emulating the composer, trying to fulfill the piano teacher's expectations without playing the music as an older child. Another way of making the point is that she has more than the talent and discipline of a typical prodigy of music or the visual arts but can express herself remarkably, as the sweet person the Master Teacher attributes to her.
Having said that; appreciating that one central message is probably most important for her: Music needs you and if you enjoy performing there will be always be an audience for you if you work hard. Nevertheless I hope that another master teacher could provide some practical advice with regards to balances of time in practicing etc as well as technical goals and procedures to get better without sacrificing her musicality.
Lightness and joy
mother of god...absolutely amazing
Beautiful joy
After watching your talk about classical music I am now watching her head. I never thought about the times pianists do that but they all do. Even adults who have been playing for years! So now I’m barely listening to her play. I’m too busy following her head up and down!
When a person love and enjoy music and know what to do, he/she wants a soulmate and mentor, not for skill but for enlightening the meaning . Music is something leading people to high level being as divine.
Thats a happy you can only get from a young person
my self-confidence left the chat
Awesome job bestie!
She's not a prodigy or a genius, she just "gets" music. She knows what Chopin is all about
😊😊😊😊😊
That was lingling ^3 ! 41 hours every day!
how a child learn so fast? its amazing.
It's because she is a Child that she learn so fast
🥰🎹🎼
What’s name of this piece it’s so beautiful
She sounds like my teacher in college.
Ein super begabtes Mädelchen.
See, you only need to train for 40 hours a day since you're 5 and you can play this well, too!
I was expecting Benjamin to ask her to try play one buttock style but other than that, there's not much to say because she played so beautifully.
Can someone please tell me why it is that Asian children play so wonderfully at such a young age? How do they get there so fast?
We lived in Thailand for 4 years. In all shopping centres, there is a floor devoted to private teaching so many schools will have a premises there. They usuall include cookery, music, English and Maths. After school and at weekends, many children are taken there by their mothers, so they can have 3 hours of tuition, while the mothers have lunch, do their nails and go to the hairdresser. For £8 per hour, the mothers consider this better than leaving their kids to their own devices with friends, who may be up to no good. That is the upside and you can see the logic behind it. The downside is that some children work a 18 hour day, with forced attendance at one club or another, without a break and they look and are exhausted, and there is no let up.
A friend of mine was asked by her mother if she would teach her daughter English on Saturday evenings from 6-9pm. It was being used as a cheap form of baby-sitting and my friend was not deceived. The young girl had 3 hours of Maths (am), 3 hours f tennis (pm) and the mother still wasn't giving her a break to socialise or rest. When my firned her what the schedule was, she said no. The mother asked why not. My friend said 'because she is a little girl who needs to have a break, get some sleep and play with her friends."
The music schools do concerts most weeks, and anyone can walk in and listen. They get used to this from an early age, which is why they perform so well, but you have to know the shadow side of this. It's good if this little girl loves to play, but this is not always the case. Some of it is torture for some kids. I've seen it. .
... Regarding my other comment, it's fine not to critique, but if the parents were paying him, I am not so sure I would have been so happy to walk away without any further guidance. For example, one thing which a lot of young musicians don' t seem to do is research the composer's life and understand when the piece was composed, what was going on in the composer's life at the time and ask whether the piece was written 'merely' out of duty to a commissioning party (written on contract to a specific deadline and therefore more of a chore for the composer) or formed a personal composition which was a means of overcoming something in their life, for example. A piece by Rachmaninov immediately comes to mind while I'm writing this - one example of many that I could quote, and not just in his life. It was written after a friend of his died and in direct response to that. If you don't look that up, and take that on board, you have no chance of giving it anything like the meaning it needs to have. I've asked players before now if they know when the piece they chose to play was composed and what they could tell me about the composer - and it is surprising how little they are able to say. That is a missed opportunity, as far as I am concerned.
This girl may be a little too young to do this yet, but as you get older, you can do this and it would add greatly to how you play a piece. This is just one example of the kind of stewardship you can offer to someone who is starting out, even if you are not going to critique their playing.
Another is about practice time. After 5 hours of playing, the lactic acid in your muscles is so high, that you will mostly not be able to achieve much in the following hours, so it is important to rest every 2.5 hours for at least an hour, to allow it to settle. It is significant that students who arrive at Julliard don't seem to know this and have to have it pointed out to them by their lecturers.... 4 hours of productive practice split into two parts, is better than 5-6 hours non-stop as some students were doing, during which their output drops to 50% or less after around 3 hours. This too could have been mentioned to her guardian....
Don't get me wrong. I really like this man, but I feel he wasted an opportunity here.
Lots of practice, determination, and perseverance
Wish they would care about music and classical music etc in my country but it's really hard, even my parents are threating me to break my 61 key keyboard, hope she will be very succesfull
Keep going! I admire your spirit.
Woah your parents won’t let you play keyboard?! That’s not cool man, if I were you, I would try to explain the benefits of playing piano to them!
I hope she earned her dinner for that day.
Well... she didn't like school, hope she still get dinner :P
I thought this was supposed to show him teaching her something? Why hasn't this been included? She plays beautifully, but I don't feel it's right to label something a Masterclass if that is not what you are going to show!
It was a master class but the child had mastered the piece! There was nothing more to be taught and his words after she performed were to acknowledge and reassure the child's parents that yes, indeed this is someone who can have a career in music.
It’s an interpretation masterclass
I agree partly - I was looking to watch a masterclass, as his masterclasses are amazing. However now I'm overwhelmed by his wisdom. Even I as a good but amateur player could have given her tips on expression and musicality. She lacks musical maturity, but who can blame her for that? Instead of criticing her, Ben Zander knew it was time for encouragement and not for criticism. Truly inspiring.
@@MusicaAngela please tell me you're joking
This was a masterclass in showing that critique is not always warranted because some times... it just isn’t!
The teacher recognized the child had great technique fundamentals (and will doubtless perfect them as time goes by; it is very clear she is working hard at it), that she loved the music she played and that she genuinely enjoyed performing. There is nothing more to add at that point, a child who has those characteristics will interpret music to her full capacity (under those circumstances, it’s much easier for children to interpret music compared to adults, who are much more distant from his affective center/source/being - children have a much more immediate connection with their inner being). Of course she will perform them according to her own aesthetics, and those can mature over time, but aesthetics is a very personal/esoteric matter and there is no forcing them (that could only do harm to the honesty and geniality of the artist). All that matter for this child to be a marvelous adult performer is for her to keep growing mentally and emotionally and for her to keep loving music the way she does now. So the teacher saw that all he could offer was to provide words of kindness to help that spark along.
A great lesson to all of us from a “master” to recognize he has no valuable criticism to add and for him being honest/confident/sensitive enough to explicitly acknowledge that very thing.
strange that is almost always Asian that are talented for classical music.
Hmmm
I would argue that they aren’t, most don’t have much expression,
Instead they get taught these instruments at a young age and play everyday for hours
Pretentious waffle
What is stranger to me is that people of other persuasions do not appreciate and cultivate the basic talents most people have and blame people with more disciplined or cultivative approaches for the perceived deficits of their own creed. Certainly there can be statistically measurable tendencies for certain talents and physical abilities, but it is the recognition of native talents that seems most important to me.
They have an excellent work ethic in all things not just music
Creepy ewh!
@@rigby6038 Richard is
Sounds like you're jealous.
wtf... is wrong with you