The Musical Genius: Derek Paravicini - Trailer

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
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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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