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...avant-garde, but he always comes back to jazz. His conversation is still limited; in an interview over tea at Ockelford's London home, he mostly just repeats what's said to him, albeit with the confidence of a man who thought of it himself. Talk to him about music, though, and he opens up, asking: "What would you like me to play?" and "Did you enjoy that piece?" Music is the only language he's fluent in, and jazz, with the freedom it gives him to improvise, helps him tap into a much wider range of emotions than words...
Even as a child, Paravicini's ear for music was remarkably advanced. But his technique "was very eccentric - mainly karate chops, thumbs and knuckles, elbows," says Ockelford. "But all on the right notes." It took 10 years to teach Paravicini how to play using the more conventional method. Now he can reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library...
...exactly how Paravicini does what he does. One theory is that his talent developed because of his limitations, not despite them. "People with learning disabilities like Derek's have a strong drive to systemize, to look for patterns," says Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge University. "Music is a system, the intervals between notes and the relationship between keys are quantitative. Even when you improvise you are, in a sense, following the rules. And because he's blind, a lot more of his brain may be allocated to auditory information...
...singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday. "I am politically neutral and I intend to stay that way," she told the legislators in the parliament's lounge. "I keep my hands off politics, and I expect the politicians to keep theirs off my music...
...TIME 100. It's striking to see that women represent 51% of the population but only 29% of the TIME 100. It is a shame that you chose to recognize Kate Moss, an anorexic drug user, with whom no mother would want her daughter to identify. Conductor Marin Alsop, music director-- designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, would have made a much better and healthier role model...