Waltz of the Sirens, by Alma Deutscher
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2019
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• CINDERELLA by ALMA DEU...
I'll be conducting the Waltz of the Sirens myself in Vienna in September and October. www.almadeutscher.com/meetalma
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Waltz of the Sirens (Sirenenklänge Walzer) composed by Alma Deutscher, performed at Carnegie Hall in 2019. Dame Jane Glover conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's
Transmission presented by Viking.
Concert presented by the Packard Humanities Institute and Columbia Artists.
Thumbnail photo credit: (c) Chris Lee
I'm a dancer and I think I just pictured a whole ballet set to the music
Amanda Stevens Me too!
Same. Pure talent
I'd like to see a ballet piece version, for sure.
Same, it’s gorgeous!
Also, as a dancer I would love to see some new fresh uplifting choreography!
I definitely thought this meant siren like the mythical creature that sings men to their deaths
LOL THAT'S WHY I CLICKED but you know what this is amazingly pretty so I'm glad I got confused 😂
Me too and I thought Alma was the singer haha
My same thoughts too; however I stayed because of the beauty.
You guys got lured in like a mythical siren.... XD
SAME!!
Alma is a rare genius, a true child prodigy like Mozart or Mendelssohn. I wish her a long, beautiful life. We are the fortunate recipients of her gorgeous artistry. She makes the world a better place. I would love to see this child in person at a concert.
I have been fortunate enough to do so.
Dear Alma lives up to all expectations and more (Bless Her)
Me too! I’d love to listen to her music live with a beautiful orchestra someday🥺💕
Im glad to live in this era
Completely agreed! She is amazing!!
I was fortunate to have seen (and heard) her for the first time several years ago in Toronto and not only was she brilliant with pitch perfect voice but dazzling with her violin and piano compositions. She was also utterly charming!
When you first hear that transition from city noises to that beautiful waltz, I never heard anything so musically amazing in my life. I literally melted in my seat. That was true genius. 😂
Yeah I felt like chills
@Simon Simon I still get that feeling after hearing it at least 100 times.
@@Robbie.Dunbar I am starting to think that Alma Deutscher was literally arriving here in a sense through forces bigger than ourselves - spiritual forces - to help change the tide of the deconstructionist concept of music.
The deconstructionists were necessary to destroy the nonsense. But, they're winter in this cycle. Alma is the first few plants of spring poking up out of the ground.
The Reconstruction is coming.
Exactly. Gershwin starts with the same tone-poem effect in "American in Paris", but basically just stays there. Alma not only made this spine-tingling transition to "real music" - - but incredibly - - the glisandos of the violins gets *retained* as part of the main theme! Just astounding - every Hollywood producer must have drooled when they heard this - because they realized at that moment that there's no genre of music that this young lady cannot excel in. She will be able to demand top-dollar for anything she's comissioned for.
Absolutely. And you cannot get that grand waltz out of your head.
All hail Alma.
The moment the noises started making sense. I was hit, hit by such a strange feeling.
idon'tknowmyname I had a physical reaction to the beginning. Serious goosebumps everywhere!!
idon'tknowmyname I had an emotional reaction. It was very strange but beautiful.
Me too. I just started bawling. Almost like seeing angels above a car accident or an out of body experience in music...
Same. I’m tearing wtf
i started tearing up
"Some people told me that melodies are no longer acceptable in serious classical music. Because in the twenty-first century, music must reflect the ugliness of the modern world. Well, in this waltz, instead of trying to make my music artificially ugly in order to reflect the modern world, I went in exactly the opposite direction! I took some ugly sounds from the modern world - and I tried to turn them into something more beautiful through music."
THANK GOD!!!
That pair of sentences alone is what makes this child a real genius of a musician and composer! Out of the mouths of babes, indeed... Strauss and all the other great waltz writers would be proud.
And this is not an ordinary childs piece, it has lots of subtlety, so many totally different instrument solos were featured, so many subtle varying themes, we are dealing with a real composer here, perhaps one of the greatest in the world today.
@@richard40x You can delete the word "perhaps". It is enough to take a good look on everything she has been composing and playing for the last 9 years. It is an amazing amount of sonatas, rondos, songs, concertos and 2 operas. The last one , Cinderella, is overwhelming. Despite the childish theme, it is not a children's piece, but a beautiful spectacle for any age.
She just made the world better!
@@vadinhopsc There is nothing childish about the Grimm stories, most of them are cautionary folk tales retold in a time when storytelling was not limited to big budget music and movie productions.
Also, I love those sentences, they are true about so much in our world. If we cannot match the masters of the past, we should just make things ugly and badly, why?
Why is "relating" in art all about conflict?
The fact that she wrote all of the music for all of the instruments and incorporated messy traffic noises is amazing. I’m not a musician but this sounds amazing
I knew nothing about her until this showed up on UA-cam. She's amazing and so young. This is a beautiful piece.
@@Tina-qp7py She is an amazing young lady and an amazing talent, enjoy your adventure into her other creations.
I’m pretty sure she is not much older than 12 years old here. She is amazing.
I am 66, originally from Vienna, and have been criticized for years by other "modern" musicians and composers for composing music that is to melodic, and music that "sounds like it was composed in the 1800's." Thank God this very talented young composer is also opening the door to a new renaissance of returning music to melody again, and music that is PLEASING to listen to....Peace! 🎼❤️
Absolutely, it is very hard to stand the criticism when it comes to making beautiful music. But Alma opens the way...
Greetings...
@@rodrigolandaromero You are on the right track Rodrigo! You are composing some beautiful music!
Please continue to compose beautiful melodies. The world is starved for it.
I don't listen to those snobbish people (I bet they secretly listen to melodic music)... I don't care what they think... love the beauty of the old world....
@@BytomGirl Dear Bytom girl, how wonderful that you don't listen those snobbish people, and continue to enjoy beauty. But, I don't think those people are listening beautiful melodies secretly; their souls may have lost all the capacity to enjoy beauty. Also, you mention "beauty of old world". Beauty has no definite location or time; it just happens that we live in an era where it is rare. But, as evidenced with this Alma Deutscher angel, even our world of ugliness have the chance for beauty to be reborn as strong even stronger as in 18th and 19th century Vienna.
*This is a real life lesson right here*
"I took some ugly sounds in the modern world, and tried to turn them into something more beautiful."
YES. If we could all do that it would be a different world.
Lesson: the beauty of things depends on our decisions
And man, did she ever suceed!
Philosophy on par with her outstanding music
@@gregzoller9003 this is precisely what I thought as well
I just wanna see the scoring for the first 30 seconds
Samee😂
Elizabeth YES that was all
i was thinking about during the beginning
I couldnt help thinking "I bet they've NEVER played anything like this before!!
It's probably not far away from what you might see from say Penderecki. Pretty crazy stuff. :)
Can you imagine walking into a conducting class exam and being given this score?
I work in healthcare, and these days the sound of sirens sets me on edge or brings me close to tears. Hearing something like this with an ugly, distressing sound turned into a gorgeous piece with beautiful violins is indescribable. I've listened to this quite a few times! Now I think of this music when I hear sirens. It's a masterpiece.
I hope this piece helped you see the beauty in what you do. You see so much tragedy, but you are a light for victims in need & we all appreciate you!!
God bless you!
Oh Borkish Dork, I so understand your comment here as another health care worker.....
She is a ray of light and a beacon of hope. Her pure and innocent approach in this age is a breath of fresh air.
You should have seen her when she was 7
Totally
Standing ovation at Carnegie Hall at 14.
Just like most average 14-year-olds.
Hope she stays healthy and happy for a long while!
I noticed the orchestra was cheering just as much as the audience. They know we are seeing a counter revolution against the whole dissonance movement hacks, that will change classical music, and make it beautiful again.
@@richard40x To steal another quote I read here, by CB:
She already did.
@@richard40x Amen to that!
This sounds like a Straussian Waltz. Much better than the Post-modernism 🎼 🗑 🤮
@@richard40x hey don't be so binary, XXth and XXIth contemporary music has definitely brought some new sounds and new ways of capturing beauty; plus tonal "beautiful" music never really got away, look at film scores (thinking of Old Boy's OST in case of waltz)
Oh my god the moment the melody kicked in through the wailing sound that shook me
Donovan Teo YES I was covered with goosebumps, it was soooo pretty
Right I had to replay that part a few times .. I was shaking !!
Donovan Teo Same, when they mixed, wow.
I started crying & goosebumps🤩
Crying 💫💥💙 the beauty
She composes with the maturity and artful sophistication of a seasoned professional but also with the magical playfullness and exuberance of youth.
It's a special moment in music when you feel your soul physically ascend from your body like mine did when those sirens started to shift to one of the most gorgeous sounds i've ever heard, Literally spectacular.
I felt that way too-
I think she found a combination that sets a part of the brain off or something cuz I almost cry when this happened 😭😭
Yes! I felt it too 🥰
Concur! Stunningly beautiful in an ancient yet modern twist. I was carried away down city streets I know not where…
Perfect description
I had no idea an orchestra could sound that much like the side of a road. HAX!
Where do you think they get all the musicians!
I’m poking fun, I’m a violinist.
SAME!!!
@@orchepiaviolinviola Hilarious ! : )
Just watch the movie August Rush about a prodigy boy. Same
Are we listening to the next great composer of the century, a historic moment?
Will she make history in our world, in music?
I think she will
Totally agree! Astonishing talent. Words cannot describe my admiration for Alma and her beautiful music.
De fait oui..
I've been following her for a few years now.
Yes, yes, yes!!
She already did
@@Carolinesthetic Agreed. That opening cacaphony and what she turned it into was just - beautiful.
Bach, Deutscher, Mozart.
I’d love to see Disney Feature Animation do a Fantasia type short or feature film with Alma. Her music is so visually descriptive, with phrases that develop and take you on a journey that would be perfectly married to the Disney animated sights of her sounds.
I 2D animated for Disney for 13 years… I’d have loved to have animated to her music. 😍💕🎵🎶🎵
Coooool! Thank you for your work! What are some of the projects you worked on during your tenure?
What projects did you work on while you were there?
Ya.... This would be really good.
Yes! I absolutely agree!
Why wait for Disney? This could be something big for you.
The key change at 4:01 - I can't remember the last time a piece of music gave me goosebumps like that.
@@ilaydadenizoguz957 😂
@@ilaydadenizoguz957 you *knew* exactly what he meant though. Ma'am. He's referring to that sudden change of cacophony into music.
@@ilaydadenizoguz957 and also, it WAS out of key because they were deliberately playing OFF key right before the denouement.
*I* know what you meant Luke.
And yes it gave me goosebumps too. I couldn't believe it. It went from nonsense into SOUL real quick. I loved that shift
@@ilaydadenizoguz957I think we knew what he meant. The resonance and the resolution,
I wish someone would animate this with an illustration and story a la Pixar or Studio Ghibli!
Hannah Lee YES 🙌🏽 personally, this piece was giving me the same vibes from that sad song in the beginning of the movie Up... I cried watching this whole piece as did I watching that scene from Up 😂
I watched Fantasia 2000 several times when I was a kid, and I was seriously imagining what kinds of stories animators could tell with this music.
I was thinking the same, it brought back memories of Disney's: Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Aristacats, Fantasia, Allice and Wonderland...
Your idea gave me like a hundred ideas and I've already started sketching out little scenes for it
I feel like making a storyboard now.
2:52 - Pre introduction (Noisy Street)
3:23 - Introduction
6:10 - Waltz 1
8:10 - Waltz 2
9:42 - Waltz 3
11:22 - Waltz 4 (based on the Austrian police siren)
12:52 - Coda
Andrew G. Thank you!
Thanks:))
Thank you Andrew G.
Thank you!! Music teacher here getting ready to analyze this with my classes.
thank you!
I’m 17. I get picked on for loving classical music. I DON’T CARE! THIS IS A MASTERPIECE 😍😍😍😍😌😂
You've got taste, me too and I'm 69.
Indeed you’ve got taste, and I’m 15. I love classical music to death. Some modern day music are too obnoxious for my tastes
I’m to 15 and classical music is the BEST. NO CARE ON WHAT THEY MIGHT SAY OUT THERE
Same ur exactly me
im almost 14 and we have the same circumstances! i love classical music sm lmao
"Instead of trying to make my music artificially ugly to reflect the modern world, I went in the opposite direction, and decided to take an ugly sound for the modern world and try to make it beautiful through music." And that right there is where she gained my utmost respect.
Let's not forget the musicians who are able to play this amazing mix. An adventure for sure
its pretty amazing
Oh, to be sure!. Must take something special, and the conductor! I'm sure they must be all handpicked!
The violin/viola parts must have been particularly difficult on account of the glisandos (sliding pitches up & down - the 'wailing' type siren), which are difficult to do in unison without it the sound starting to "schmear" together. That transition from noise to real music, while *retaining* the glisando, and having it actually be part of the melody, is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Even Gershwin (author of "American in Paris", which begins an awful lot like the intro does) never got to anything like this. Proof that Alma can even tackle completely new genres of music with absolute mastery.
@@jimwinchester339 thank you so much for that explanation! Great for us non-musicians to know the difficulty and level of skill required here 😮
God this was stunning. Sometimes the algorithm of youtube truly blesses us
Couldn't agree more!
Finally 🙌
This version is great. I also highly recommend Alma's transcription for solo piano of this waltz, which she recorded for her CD (from My Book of Melodies) last year (track 11 to 16). I think it is even more beautiful than this orchestra version. The noise at the beginning is much more subtle than it is in the orchestra version.
I discovered Alma on UA-cam, checked her schedule, found that she was scheduled to put on a concert at Carnegie Hall, and was lucky enough to attend.
Indeed 💕🎶🎼🎵🎶💕
Oh how I wish I could listen to this for the first time again.
Same!!!!!!!
Listening to this for the first time rn
Wow
"Instead of trying to make my music artificially ugly, in order to reflect the modern world" What a powerful statement, Alma. I truly agree with you that music has to bring beauty for a world that needs precisely that, instead of bringing more chaos in a world that already has it. Thank you! You are a blessing.
Это очень точный комментарий, который и в моём сердце ❤💥💦💥💦💥❤
Мира , гармонии и всякого добра вашему дому 💎👑💎
The beginning actually scared me that they sounded like actual traffic. I could physically FEEL myself just seconds away from getting hit by a car.
Same here, and then for a moment I thought it sounded like the WWII air raid sirens 😳
I like how many armys I’ve already seen commenting on here. We do have taste
She specifically said "Don't get scared by the intro". You had one job lol
I could feel myself wanting to jump into a taxi to save myself form finals
I heard Alma's other works and I was like, okay that's nice. But I was astonished by this, this is a breakthrough piece that shows she really is becoming a genius level composer
ExcitingOnion It very much is indeed
I think the same 😻
Please go find the rest of the performance. There are stunning pieces throughout. Finally she has this breakthrough moment where the maturity of her ever evolving pieces have crossed the threshold into the unforgettable.
Agreed. It takes some crazy level of ability to mimic road noise with an orchestra and then play around with the sounds to make something that sounds nice.
@@Biomirth I couldn't agree more.
You can literally hear the facade of a chaotic, grim, and uncertain post modern world melt away into beautiful ethereal spheres! Ahhhh, so incredible.
I doubt that many composers could have written this even if they wanted to, let alone conceive of it. Her genius and gift leave me awestruck.
same i’m shocked how is she only 16 😳
That golden moment at 4:02 when the chaotic noise begins to make sense brings tears to my eyes every single time I listen to this wonderful composition. It's just such a beautiful and unexpected moment .
It gives me goosebumps💫
Same....
i want to constantly feel that weird emotion. it’s like a relief, such as when you get home after a whole day of stress and close your eyes, your cat purring beside you and the whole world stops and the biggest smile comes to your face, you forget all your misery for a moment.
yeah, i need that emotion so i’ll repeatedly listen to the intro part.
@@tunayumrukuz7744 I agree . The fact that this piece is able to convey such a complex emotion baffles me . Props to Alma for her extraordinary talent .
I nearly cried. I fought back the tears, but I felt that, as well. An amazing moment.
Finally. This is what Classical music needs. I don’t care what her age is. It doesn’t matter. This is just plain great and hopefully more people realize that there’s still life left in traditional compositions. Beautiful work here by all involved. Creative and classic.
I am actually happy that she is this young. It only means that we'll be listening to Deutscher-music for a long, long time to come. :-D
It's what everyone who is not in the music establishment wants
Glad to be in the company of other folks who take melodic beauty serious in their classical music!
@@JimEadon people in the music establishment should just want goof music. I hate how humans always complicate things
She is a child prodigy. Her age is important for the time being. Eventually her art will supercede her age though and she will just be considered an all time great composer of modern classical music. I also just found out about her 8 minutes ago. Down the rabbit hole I go.
What a blessing to be alive at a time when a future 'classic' composer is alive and to listen to these works of art as they are born... goosebumps, absolutely brilliant!
3:40: Cool! Sirens! An interesting start.
4:03: And... now I'm crying tears of joy.
Same. Every single time I hear this piece. There's something in that 04:03 transition. Just beautiful.
EXACTLY
Yeah I was not anticipating tears falling out of my eyes but it was such a simple yet ingenious transition that it seemed like my soul wanted
The fact that she is 14 hadn't sank in yet
AXM HP SAME.
I’m fifteen... I’m supposed to be a gifted child but this just makes me think I have no talent whatsoever 😭😂 God bless her heart. I heard in an interview that she doesn’t really use too many electronic devices and thinks of them as unnecessary distractions, so that’s probably why.
@@sophiaredwood5825 I know how you feel. Her music is on a whole other level.
I'm 14... what am I doing with my life
@@mamaluigi6949 You are living YOUR life. Don't panic. Your time "to do" things will come.
@@proditorio1
perfect and true encouragement, José 😊
Listening to the beginning is like walking through a desert of concrete buildings and then -when the flute starts - you see the first little beautiful flower - just opening to the sunlight.
Best comment
Exactly.
More like a city of deserted concrete buildings and when the flute starts, a flood of greens and flowers began sprouting everywhere like mushrooms, completely covering the concrete buildings.
Flute is the best choice 😊 to switch to the pretty part.
‘Instead of making my music artificially ugly to reflect the modern world...I took some ugly sounds from the modern world and tried to turn them into something more beautiful through music.’
More of this please. The world needs more beauty. Thank you, Alma, for your generous contribution. God bless you.
I mean, this has to be the most beautiful piece of modern classical music EVER.
You could be right, other contenders are Alma, Alma and errrm, Alma!
@@christopherosborne2453 don't forgot Alma !
This transcends modernism! I dare say it marks the dawn of a new classical era!
Ligeti Requiem pretty beautiful thi
@@BalysSheetMusicVideos Hmmm… I’ll have to check that out because I’ve avoided Ligeti due to the first few times I heard any of his music it seemed rather atonal with no seeming purpose.
Just by listening to it reminds me all the classic animated films I have watched where the hero/heroine is lost in the city but things eventually end up well.. Sounds childish but this really opens up one's imagination; the feeling of innocence and youth.. the music is so refreshing..
It's not childish at all! I totally agree with you and the only place where new yet harmonically beautiful music is made are high quality animations and films like you mentioned, so of course your mind will go there - as did mine ^^
Waltz 1 kidda reminded me of Howl's Moving Castle Ost, WOWWW this is mind blowing!!!!
American composers of silent movie & cartoon soundtracks have been doing similarly for decades!
So this sounds very "American" at first 😁
Then the waltzes fly it back over Austria again.
💃🏼
Im glad to be alive when this is composed
Well said!
Well said indeed Park Min
Im glad to
So many people were reminded of animated films, which made me smile because I'm a (retired) animator and for me, that would count as a compliment! Some are imagining scenes, others proposing storylines! If anyone takes on such a production, I wouldn't mind joining in. And we can all meet Miss Deutscher when she visits the studio!
For our generation, classical music usually feels like faraway past. Alma though, albeit being a classical composser, projects a picture of human civilization through her piece. Traffic noises are the sound we are living with in 21st Century. Using that as the base, Alma makes this piece stay relatable and relevant. She's really one amazing living composser.
Leave it to Alma Deutsher to take the blaring sounds of sirens, horns, and city traffic and imagine the beauty that could arise from such. This was magical. Thank you, Alma, for sharing your talents with the world. Such beauty and transcendence are rare in the muscial arts today, and they have been sorely missed. We are blessed to witness the re-birth and coming of age of true composer and performer.
Well said!
Steven Dorsey Hear hear!
John Lennon, when he was in the Beatles, wrote a song called I am the Walrus. The opening chords are inspired by the sounds of sirens from ambulances.
There is also the movie August Rush: "Music is all around us. all you have to do is listen"
Thank you very much Alma. Our christmas is filled with bitterness and happiness. My grandpa just passed away an hour ago after 10 years of battle against cancer. But before he passed away, I let him listen to this and he said, this is one of the best waltz he has listened to and when he asked who composed this, I told it was Alma Deutscher, who is only 14 years old. He smiled and said an angel has composed such a beautiful music and he regretted that he could not listen to any more of your pieces and many more pieces to come. We are very grateful to you Alma for this wonderful piece and all the music you have composed. We, our family, wish you to continue creating wonderful melodic and harmonious musics and we hope it will not change no matter what. Have a very great christmas to you and your family. And always take care!
Tear-worthy
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Your grandfather must have had a fulfilling life, as he recognised at first hearing the beauty and charm of this music : that bespeaks experience and discernment. That you were able to gift him this late blessing will surely be a comfort to you. Kind regards.
Josh --oh my god . My condolences.
That is so wonderful that your grandpa got to hear Alma. She is a miracle .
14:00-14:33 This part always gets me. It's like Alma saying "Well, we've all shared a beautiful evening together, but sadly, it's time to say good night" in a So Long, Farewell from The Sound of Music kind of way.
Am I really crying to an orchestra imitating police sirens and trucks and cars
Just proves you are Human and love beauty.
Why did the melody coming through at the beginning have me ugly crying? This girl has some amazing, raw talent. She truly is extraordinary and extraordinarily gifted.
Because the sudden shift of glorious beauty out of cacophony gets you right in the heartstrings. You and me both... and, it seems, everyone else who hears this!
She is 100% genius.
Clear, genius. It's such a creative, yet, powerful and so concise musical statement about the current state of culture and composition when it comes to music.
It hits you so hard because you know the *truth* of it as it happens, that all this arguing and noise about how classical music is supposed to sound a certain way in the 21st century is just bunk garbage, that beauty is real despite its variation.
I'm a picky motherfucker when it comes to classical music, and it also brings tears to my eyes.
I bawled through the entire thing. Couldn’t help it. I love this.
2:52 Noisy street
3:23 Introduction
6:10 Waltz 1
8:10 Waltz 2
9:42 Waltz 3
11:22 Waltz 4
12:52 Coda
Well let me tell you. That part starting at 4:00 might be one of the most beautiful introductions to music i have ever heard. It is perfect. Made my heart beat faster. Beautiful.
It gave me chills!
I would say it begins at 3:23
Wow!
Imagine . This masterpiece and Studio Ghibli combined. I'm -
YESSSS JUST IMAGINE THE BEAUTY
Xiah Luns YYYYYYEEEESSSSSSS
yeah. imagine, alma and joe hisaishi 🔥
🥺🥺🥺 I can already see it. It’s beautiful.
I can imagine a group of strange Ghibli creatures marching with this waltz at the end of the movie
Somewhere Johann Strauss Jr. is smiling and giving two thumbs up...
For certain.
And Mozart Definitely
Only a few days ago I was wondering why no one composes music like Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Elgar any more. Is it impossible to write something beautiful in this tormented modern age? Apparently not, but it must take extraordinary talent and courage to do it
Plenty of composers do! You just have to know where to look! I am a professional composer and compose my music in such a way. Especially inspired by Bach and other 'greats' of the past. The category is called 'neo-romantic composition'
There's a bunch of neo-romantic music in orchestral film scores these days. For example, film scores composed by John Williams, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams.
Hi John -- one main reason composers don't write in the old classical style is that the best melodies, the "low hanging fruit"-- have already been taken. There's only seven tones in a major scale, and 12 total if you count chromatically. As soon as you string together 3 or four notes into a motif/theme/melody which you find catchy, chances are very high that someone else has already written that pattern. For example, think of the first three notes of "Over the Rainbow". An octave jump followed by a half-step drop. If you are composing today, you can still begin a piece with those same three notes, but what follows in "Over the Rainbow" will fit better with them than with whatever options you choose (in general -- there is still some "fruit" left, but it's getting harder to find). Paul Simon, a great melodist, said that melody is basically dead in pop music. That's why so many pop songs just repeat the same couple notes -- the rhythm and arrangement is where the originality is now. As another example, think of the first 8 notes (which is made up of only four tones from a major scale) of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". So simple, so catchy. It was available in 1820. But no longer. He plucked it first. There's still room for lots of new melody, but less room for new super-catchy-and-super-beautiful melodies.
It takes a kid apparently.
And purity. Beauty can only be created through it.
I'm so fortunate to have been there on this day. Alma is a musical genius. She did bring me to tears and was more than deserving of her multiple standing ovations. This was her "treat" to us. I do hope she never loses her love for music.
Lucky you. Bless you!
oh goodness im glad im not the only one who cried
Amazing you got to be there for this historic piece.
Wow!!! That’s so awesome! I would love to see a live orchestra playing beautiful music someday😊❤️
I have waited ALL MY LIFE for someone to have the courage to stand up and say what this young woman just said here! Brava! A beautiful and brave speech, and an astoundingly beautiful waltz.
We are so blessed to have a young person of her tremendous talent. Her music is beautiful presentation is beautiful and I looked I went to Aldo beauty she will bring us in the future
Miss Alma, thank you for setting the example of the healthy and loving protest.
Know that you aren't alone. Write the music that your heart tells you to. If you find yourself wondering if what you listen to is truly great, just ask yourself "Is there MAGIC in these notes?" and you will know the answer.
Geroge Hayek: Right on! I’ve heard that she is getting a lot of insults from so-called modernist contemporary composers, especially in Germany. They are scared that people actually love this music, and they are mad that nobody can bear listening to their noises. So they call her reactionary and try to shut her up.
The dissonant emperor never had any clothes.
This is genius !!! Once the sirens magically transformed to waltz. It took me somewhere else. I felt my eyes sparkled. I know.. I'm weird.
You're not alone. ☺
And not alone...
You're not weird. I think we all felt that.
I cried... Wasnt expecting that!
I'm a figure skater and I really think I could see myself doing a routine to this
Go for it!!!
Please do it!!!!
DO IT!
Did you do it yet?
Thank you so much for being a figure skater! The world needs more people like you.
What we need to relive the Golden age of waltzes? Simple: it takes just one Alma.
Waltzes do make you feel good and give such a grand feeling of lightness... sort of the way a great ballet looks.
Why am I tearing up listening to this? It just brings a surge of emotions, inexplicable happiness, youth and innocence.
I felt the same thing I was total mess 😥😀
It makes me emotional too. Nostalgic and hopeful at the same time. LIVING.
I started burstinf into tears when the American sirens were transforming to the Waltz. I played the violin for 10 years and have been regretting ever giving it up. One of the worst decisions I have ever done and knowing that and hearing that transformation just let it all go.
I did as well!
@@malorie8557 same that's the part that always gets me. I lose it every time I listen to that transition.
Thank God, I'm not the only one that tearing up listening to this
No you’re not... Each time....🥲
It's beautiful, I cried
I’m literally crying and laughing at myself
Can’t believe it, wept throughout. Something like, there was a lot of suppressed grief that I’d never see the likes of the golden age of classical composition but she brings it to us and that is very healing
As an animator, this sent me into imagining an amazingly enchanting animated sequence of a bustling, yet charming morning commute that many of us know within the context of our own lives. Absolutely magical.❤️
The use of glissando in this piece is wild. So imaginative and inventive. This was fabulous.
I only wish that anything I might say in praise of the extraordinary young woman could rise to the same level as her skill. I have enjoyed, loved and treasured classical music for nearly all of my 75 years. I have listened to all of Alma's work's on youtube now for a few years and agree: THIS is Alma's breakthrough into luscious orchestral scoring. Her gift of melody is undeniable. Her harmonies are enchanting. Finally she has total control of the entire orchestra. Way to go, Alma. BRAVO!
The citizens of Vienna have already danced to the "Sirenenklange Walzer" at the Wiener Rotkreuz Ball, and it is going to be performed at the Salzburg State Theatre's Grand New Year's Eve Concert.
awesome
And they danced to a new waltz: “Alma composed a very short waltz, "Elmayer Walzer", for the 100th anniversary of the legendary dancing school Tanzschule Elmayer.”
Alma, you're THE girl. The brightness of your speech is impeccable. And the arrangement you did for this piece is remarkable. I've been moved by your speech about "modern" music since your vídeo at Carinthians Festival. You will leave your mark in the history of music.
I couldn't agree more!
@Marianne Yes. She has been an outstanding musician (violinist, pianist, composer, and even an occasional singer) for years. I've been following her career for almost 7 years now. And she never ceases to surprise me. What a superior intellect!
Yes I believe she will. She is one of a kind! I love her imagination.
the transition at 4:00, I’m completely speechless. I’m crying. this is one of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever heard.
I dont know why, but a strange nostalgic and dreamy feeling hit me when the beautiful melody started playing after the busy street noises in the beginning. It instantly made me cry(in a good way) and i can't even put to exact words how much i felt about this piece. It's just so wonderful and enchanting. I never knew i needed this. Thank you youtube algorithm.
I also cried straight away. So comforting.
@@hugovonk1886 wow! I did too
This gave me the chills and the tears in my eyes. It shows how in the ugliness, one can still find something beautiful.
What a great joke. They were saying "write some dissonance!". Alma says: "ok, here's some dissonance for you!" and then beats them all at their own game. Hacks - all of them! Good job alma.
I should also use this comment to express my admiration. She is an inspiration to us all, and she gives us all hope that our music will reach people in the end, and not be stifled by those who currently have a stranglehold on modern "classical" music.
Great comment. The lame critics demand she turn beautiful music into ugly dissonance, to reflect the ugliness of the world. So she turns the tables on them completely, and turns the ugly dissonance of the world into beautiful music. Only a real genius can turn the tables on the critics and make prime fools out of them like this
She won't be stifled, especially not after this here waltz. Haters gonna hate, a term from gaming which applies to music as well. Alma Deutscher will just take that hate and turn it into something soul-mendingly beautiful. :-)
@@richard40x Yes, that is just the point. She is saying I can make an orchestra create a frightful racket just like you, but you can't turn it into a thing of beauty resolving the dissonance so elegantly. Great job Alma. This work will make them really mad, but I know you don't care. We will be with you to sell out your concerts and cheer you on. Us music loving ignorant masses will stay with you. The noise makers will get no praise and love from us. Of course it is our fault and not the arrogant musical establishment dictating to us for a 100 years now.
Ohhh gosh, who else ended up crying while listening to this??? 😭
I did. Once the waltz started for real, the beauty of it overwhelmed me.
She always makes me cry. Her music nudges my soul to those special places deep within that are always pleasurable to visit.
Caused me to cry out in thanksgiving and praise to God Almighty for such heavenly beauty sent through the heart of this young lady, made in the image of God. A blessing to gladden the hearts of every soul who hears. How marvellous Alma to have been blessed with such a gift and for such a time as this...
Darren Breeze I honestly did, no idea why, but it moves you
Me!! The transition from the siren sounds to the melody hit me so much
This really brought tears to my eyes. I’ll tell you why. I’ve had an email from a friend during lockdown telling me she’s lost all hope for the future....that the world has gone nuts, with riots, the pandemic, etc...but this proves that within tough times and all the ‘ugliness’ going on...it’s up to us to find the beauty...and in everything, there is beauty to be found. Just wonderful. Thank you, Alma, for this very important reminder through your gorgeous music and heart.
You are not alone!!!There are many many people from different countries who have realised the precious values that have been forgotten and should be raised as leaders to our world rebirth!!!
I hope you sent your friend this link to cheer them up.
Well said! ❤️ It simply cannot be coincidence that this piece was gifted to the world just as Covid struck. It speaks volumes and is a guiding light to us all.
i can just imagine this girl having a dream where she desires to become a princess and she wants to dance at the grandest ball ever. though she’d never be able to because it’s already past this day and age. but the only place where she can achieve her dreams are in her own as she sleeps. the sirens are what she hears right as she tries to sleep. but once she starts losing consciousness, the ball begins. that’s what i think of when i hear this song.
if that makes sense :,)
It makes a lot of sense. Do you write poetry?
Yes, very true. Dreams. They keep us going in this world~
I have a dream
All the heroes who have gone before us have first dreamed and wondered before turning those dreams into a reality, and changing the world for the better
That’s such a cool bisual
Visual*
Thiw narrative is so amazing now whenever I listen to this piece, I'll be thinking abt this!
The transition 3:40 to 4:20 is impressive! Keep on creating beautiful melodies :)
My favorite part. Never fails to make me cry ❤️
Agree. Beautiful transition.
A mind that hasn't been poisoned by the modern world, keep shining Alma
It's music only a young mind could create
@@user-hm9uq8gk5x yes, Mozart kept his childish side and I hope she doesn’t get changed by the real world
@@yeah2152 Mozart once said "I pay no attention to anyone's praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings"
this modern world is an upgrade in all aspects of life.. we're not being poisoned, it's always been hard to be an adult and sometimes the struggles force us to prematurely grow up and bitter
@@user-hm9uq8gk5x lol not true, i'm 22 this is the kind of music i think of when writing melodies, i don't care for ugly ir repititive awful music like Steve reichs or most modern composers today.
After the initial cacophony, the noise gives place for exquisitely beautiful REAL music, Alma's style. Hats off to a young genius.
This is as good as anything Strauss wrote and is clearly a modern masterpiece. Please keep composing. You are an inspiration to us all.
4:00-4:11 THAT TRANSITION!
WOW, I can’t comprehend how a really young composer can do a piece like that, with obvious modernist influences (pitch glissandos, the brave introduction who I loved). I’m a 15 years old composer trying to achieve composing orchestral music, and this is a really really good piece. Btw, your particular musicality is neo-romantic, in who I don’t really I’m into but you managed to write it with its deserved complexity and pure melody. Thanks, for sharing and for us, the other young composers who want a model for continuing with hope to become good composers.
Well actually she has already been composing for more than a decade!
Go, Alejandro, go!
Don't let the music establishment corrupt you into being mediocre, like modern composers typically are. Aim for profound beauty, like this composer!
Did she really compose everything? The flutes, violins, harp, entire orchestra etc. on her own without help? Did she write the melodies for each instrument? Can’t believe that’s true.
@@JoeCamp-mf1ug why can't you believe that? It's not like she did it in seconds. It takes time to write a piece like this, that's a composer's job. And she is a stellar one at that.
I don't think I can ever watch these in person. I'll be too embarrassed because I cry from the beauty of the music. I still cry to beautiful renditions of Clair De Lune.
Nothing there to be embarrassed about. 🤗
Those that do not shed a tear listening to This have Closed their Hearts 💗🤔
The first time I heard Claire de Lune, I balled like a baby.
I was a music student in Vienna in the 1970s. Alma captures the essence of all the great waltzes.
I got goosebumps throughout this whole piece of art. What this girl has created has no equal!!
She was the reason I got into classical music seriously. 3 years have gone by and I still love it. My life has been forever changed in a beautiful way. Thank you Alma!!
Do tell, how you met her and how she influenced your classical music journey
Oh my gosh, I love how she tailors her speech about the sirens, to her audience. She is from England, not the States! Beautiful nod to the Odyssey, she must read a lot! So much intelligence in her music, and it shines through her brain, as well! Here to change the world! 🌏😊
She had no iphone, no electronic devices, watches no TV ... and she does indeed read a LOT
@@3dbadboy1 A hundred books a year.
She is from England? She sounds very German to me
@@jojannekevisscher9923 Her last name looks German, perhaps her accent is influenced by one of her parents
@@sushigoose_ Her last name IS german and the literal translation is 'the german'. Her dad, the origin of that surname, is from Israel, i believe and she herself is british, like her mom.
Our country is suffering, our people are suffering: I was watching the horrors of Australia burning, the sadness I was encased in at my inability to go out and do something, thus, becoming so desperately disheartened- How I came across this magnificent young soul, yourself Alma, is in and of itself mysterious. Thinking of the "cacophony", of darkness, I listened, I cried, I prayed a prayer of thanks. To you Alma my heartfelt Thank You, for your gift of Vita, for such is a candle in this all too consuming darkness. Yes, our sad but real "cacophony", It will pass.
Alexandrina Miller
Also in Australia, coping very poorly with such wholesale destruction if entire ecosystems. Alma, if you read this, have a listen to the very distinctive sounds of Australian wildlife, especially birds. I realise you don't need folder for your imagination, but it seems you'd be the perfect person to turn our national trauma into a thing of heartening beauty.
And now a plague sweeps through the whole globe! But I really love the part at 5:32 where it gets the saddest... And then immediately chirps up and continually reminds you to dance and sing and love and play and that the world can still be filled with joy if you will it!
Somehow, this young one has taught me a new lesson. But I shouldn't be surprised, as I've always said it is our youth who will lead us to salvation.
Thia was all before covid19 in year 2020
I'm glad to hear a voice coming out of Carnegie Hall that echoes the sentiments of so many composition students, professors, and concertgoers everywhere. Good for you Alma, keep it up!
I can imagine a story following a turkish stray cat. Anyone who’s seen Kedi will know what I mean.
2:53
At the first honk our cat wakes up and opens his eyes. He was sleeping on a bench in from of a clothing shop.
We start down low on the street. Its morning and people hurry to get to whereever they need to go. Streets are busy. Our cat nearly gets run over, but brushes it off.
3:23
Sirens can be heard as our cat climbs up a building. The sound slowly dies down as we get higher. To eventually be greeted by a beautifull view of the city at sunrise. He soaks up the morning sun for a bit.
6:10
We start his daily routine. He takes us on a journey over the rooftops.
We gets some more nice views of the city. He scares a small flock of birds (6:40). Our eyes follow them as they fly away. Causing us to notice the ocean in the distance.
We get some shots of fishermen and their boats on the water. And we get a shot of a mother stray cat recieving a fish and giving it to her kittens.
We see our cat have some interractions with other cats. Some friendly, some not.
8:10
He jumps down. And we end up at a local market buzzing with activity. The scenery gets louder and buisier.
We see shots of seller promoting their products. Our cat sneakily steals a sausage. And runs away before the owner of the stand can catch him. While running we catch a glimpse of the old market cat chilling on a chair. Staring at us in dissaproval.
9:41
It is in the late afternoon/early evening now. Our cat is chilling next to the port near the ocean. We see he just finished his sausage.
We see him lazily grooming himself. The sun goes down.
11:22
We see our cat trotting down the sidewalk. It’s early in the night.
He walks past cafés and clubs. We see shots of people raising glasses and of people dancing.
Our cat spots a mouse and tiptoes closer to it.
He tries to catch the mouse but everytime he pounces he misses it by a hair.
13:09
He gives up and goes on his way. Determined to get somewhere.
We get a shot of a lady in a clothing shop repearing and sewing clothes untill very late into the night.
13:30
Our cat arrives at the clothing shop.
He scratches and meows at the door but the lady doesn’t notice him. He tries and tries. But eventually gives up.
Just as he is about to walk away the lady notices him and opens the door for him. He rubs against her legs.
She goes to the kitchen to get a bowl and some catfood. She puts it down for him.
At about 3am she closes down the shop and leaves to go home. Out cat lays down on his usual spot on the bench in front the clothing store and falls asleep.
(Sorry if I made some spelling mistakes. English is not my first language.)
Lucas A I rewatched the whole video while reading this. Felt like watching a short film! Thanks for the experience! 😊👍🏼
This was an awesome chronicle!
You should help storyboard an animation- this little story was great. 😊
this was so cool!
Lucas A this made me cry omg 😂😂
Well, this is how it has always been done: a genius comes along and blows all the "talents" getting some level of recognition so far out of the water that a new era is introduced...
I can’t be the only one who listens to this several times a week
Nothing to be embarrassed about, can't get enough of that wonderful stuff.
Nope, me too
@@christopherosborne2453 Why are you even mentioning embarasment? This is music, just like every other songs out there
Join the club
I listen to her violin concerto before bed most nights 😉
What a night it was! this composition is amazing you can see in your mind the police and the ambulances driving down the street. It was a dream for me to see her. I am so glad she came to America.
why should I stick around and watch 2 minutes of applause, because she deserves it and so much more. Pure genius and had me in tears.
That opening gave me very intense chills and brought tears to my eyes. The way the sound develops into the faintest of a melody, and then more and more so naturally was astounding. I’m amazed how far you’ve come, Alma. I’m so thankful that you’re here and creating music on this level. I am so excited for more music from you. Maybe you’ll return to the intimacy’s of the piano sonata at some point. Whatever the case may be, I’ll be here to listen.
My dad just asked me what I was watching, mostly because I’m crying. I just answered: life waltz
I don't know much about waltzes and much less instrumental music, to be honest I ended up here because of the youtube algorithm. I've never heard of any great composers of the "modern world" as she put it, but damn. Why did I feel every single note of this so roughly? It sort of felt like sleeping beauty walking through a blooming flower field on the moon. Like nostalgia and dreams and happiness that somehow seems obtainable now. Did you know Alma means soul in spanish? Miss Deutscher, I think I felt yours.
“Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I would love to watch a disney classic style animated musical film set to this music, representing Alma’s imagination
I was there to hear the entire program of her music featuring her violin and piano concertos, duets from her opera, Cinderella, and this waltz. It was magical. Not least of what made it so was her presence and charisma. At least prodigious, perhaps even miraculous. I was first introduced to her via UA-cam among other prodigies that I would never have seen but for UA-cam. UA-cam is now my primary source for recorded music, in part because of the wonderful live performances.
Proof that classical music is still on it's journey to be one of the greatest genres out there
Classical music never dies
To me, this is amazing, but amazing is not a good enough word. That this young lady, well anyone, could have this beauty in her heart, write it down so this beauty can be presented by world class musicians... It's amazing to me that Alma could teach this Orchestra anything, but they played what she wrote. I'm certain they feel blessed to perform this work. The audience seemed to get it too. I don't care what her critics say, I look forward to experiencing beauty. We need it, Alma delivers. Alma, you make the world a better place, and I THANK YOU!!!
Just when the world needs it, too!