Two years ago _ played before the Damrosch school in New York and was accorded the honor of being perched on the great stool before the magnificent organ which was the gift of the late John Jacob Astor to the Episcopal church in Rhineback-on-the-Hudson, a signal recognition to the gifts of the 6-year-old girl. When Josef Hoffmann visits the coast this winter she will be given an audience before the world-famous pianist.īut with all her natural talent and the splendid gifts which set her apart from her playmates, the little pianist and composer is a charming, merry-hearted child, devoted to dolls and baseball. _ Play below Twilight Zone theme The 8-year-old child prodigy’s name?ĮLIZABETH SHORT, from Oakland, California* San Francisco Call SeptemShe is taught at home with her mother for teacher and companion and Miss Cora Jenkins as her musical supervisor.” * Eleven years after this article appeared in the newspaper, Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short would be born in the East Coast and in 1947, at age twenty-two, would become the torture/murder victim of George Hodel and her body buried near her sister’s home in OAKLAND, California. THANK YOU ISLA BROWN FOR FORWARDING THE ARTICLE.
SKH Note: And least we forget in 1923, George Hodel Sr. hired famed architect Zelenko to design and built a separate “Tea House” for his young son’s, fifteenth birthday. Though on the same property the young genius private residence had its own separate address: 6511 Short Way.Įlizabeth and Josef married for thirty years.įrom so many clues and evidence beyond circumstantial everywhere one looks, including Rachmaninoff being a fan of both prodigals Master Hodel and Miss Short, surely Dr. Hodel followed the whereabouts of his little rival, including that she later lived westward of him on Franklin. We hope that you enjoyed watching this wonderful performance today by this 5-year-old piano prodigy!Even without the Internet, he had time as a student in the Berkeley-Oakland area to follow her trajectory. He is truly a natural! And it is astounding to know that he cannot read music yet and still is able to play such complex pieces with just hearing the notes and playing by ear. When watching the video of Alberto play, it is amazing to see his tiny hands fly across the piano keys with such ease.
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Even though he still doesn't know how to read notes well, indeed almost not at all, he takes his position on the keyboard and repeats the pieces. For a year and a half now, has been doing remarkable things, both for his age and for the time it took him to learn. husband and I noticed that he had perfect pitch. From there I realized that Alberto was well suited. “I was always at home, so we started playing with a small keyboard, in order to do something stimulating. “He started playing during the months of the first lockdown,” shared Alessia Cingolani, Alberto's mother. When he was 3 years old, Alberto’s parents first introduced him to the piano and quickly saw that the boy had a natural affinity for the instrument. His father works as a music teacher and his mother is a singing instructor. 16 in C major wowed the audience.Ī video of his performance was shared online, and it has since garnered over 5 million views on Twitter. Recently, he performed in a music competition, and his incredible rendition of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani is a five-year-old Italian pianist who only started learning how to play the piano in 2020.
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