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Uploaded on Apr 30, 2009

A trailer from The Musical Genius, produced by A FOCUS PRODUCTIOn for FIVE & Discovery Health. Distributed by Channel 4 International

An Evening with Derek Paravicini and the Emerald Ensemble
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 8 June 2009, 7.30pm
Visit http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/musi... for more information

TV's musical genius Derek Paravicini, the world famous musical savant, makes his London debut with the Emerald Ensemble Chamber Orchestra playing classical, blues and jazz compositions plus some sensational improvisations. Although blind and severely learning impaired Derek can play any piece of music after hearing it only once.

Derek has performed at Ronnie Scott's, Beverley Hills, Hollywood and boogied with Jules Holland. His remarkable abilities have been investigated in the film The Musical Genius. Derek's life story, In the Key of Genius, written by his music teacher Professor Adam Ockelford, is a best-seller.

He will be performing:
Leonard Bernstein: /Mason: West Side Story Suite
Ralph Vaughan Williams: /Martin Pring: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D
Claude Debussy: /Martin Pring: Le petit negre
Johann Sebastian Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No.3 in D, BWV.1068 (Air on a G string)
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.5 in F sharp minor
Interval
Dmitry Shostakovich: Waltz No.2 from Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra
Lowell McKennitt: Marco Polo
George Botsfield: Black and white Rag
Keith Emerson: Honky tonk train blues
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Requests and improvisations
Nicolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble Bee

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  • BangAmai13

    Pray to God that nobody introduces him to Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj.

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  • ghismeisk

    whats the nae of the piece that he is playing at 3:30?

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  • JanRauta

    And who says that blind guy can't play piano?

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  • Daisy Woods

    I met him! I sang with him and my cousin who is autistic... It was amazing and he was a great guy :)

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  • siddharth9200

    What song does he play around 3:30? The narrator says it's a Basque lullaby.

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  • one340

    Caprice No. 24 in A minor by Paganini composed for the violin

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  • Maria Belén Salazar Piedrahita

    What's the name of the piece played at 2:00? Thanks!

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  • FreedomFighter2002

    Yes,eminent, you chose your name well - it is eminent that you are a moron through and through.

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  • xxxEMINENTxxx

    piano music,LMAAAOOO,jk,jk idk

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  • Shiawasena Shunkan

    You can. Play the piano, but closing your eyes and learn and train by memory and heart. Our eyes may seem to give us a view, but it actually blinds us from seeing something extraordinary.

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