Via the New York Times earlier this morning, a response to Tommasini’s Top 10 list from 8-year-old Lucas Amory, the son of violists Misha Amory (of the Brentano String Quartet Misha Amorys) and Hsin-Yun Huang. I love his defense of Haydn and his drawing of the Schumann/Tchaikovsky show-down, not to mention his two separate lists for greatest and personal favorites (“7: You won’t believe it: Paganini”). And he was even able to distinguish “your” from “you’re,” which means he’s worlds beyond many folks three and four times his age.
After a day like February 14th, in which my husband and I watch dozens of flower-toting guys and Trojan-buying ladies flutter around the city and make a tacit promise between the two of us that we won’t fall victim to the statistic of children conceived on Valentine’s Day (or, indeed, after witnessing screaming children in Trader Joe’s, conceive at all), stuff like this sets my biological clock in motion oh-so-slightly. But my kid’s personal top ten list is going to include some non-DWGs whether s/he likes it or not.
(Kidding.)
(Kind of.)
[...] folks at the Merkin Concert Hall (part of the Kaufman Center, whose Special Music School Lucas Amory attends) interviewed the 8-year-old author behind the two Top Ten Lists sent to Anthony Tommasini [...]