![]() ![]() Harmony demonstrated some of the goofy expressions she’s seen, which was hilarious. Harmony said the funny thing about playing with adults is that they have a lot of funny expressions they do unconsciously because they’re way too focused on their next move. Ellen: Harmony Zhu Chess Playingīesides playing piano, Harmony was a world champion chess player. ![]() The last letter of her Chinese name means “peaceful and harmonious.” So when her mom saw the English name Harmony, she thought it was perfect. Harmony noted that her being a piano prodigy and her name being Harmony was a “completely huge coincidence.” Harmony has a Chinese name and her mother chose her another name when she was young. Harmony said she started playing piano when she was three years old. But I venture to say Harmony Zhu might’ve been the most adorable one and possibly the most talented. Ellen TV: Piano Prodigy Harmony ZhuĮllen has a lot of adorable kids on her show and has become somewhat famous for it. She got a huge standing ovation after she was finished playing from the audience. And her piano playing was absolutely incredible. She wore a frilly, poofy white dress and a big white silk flower in her hair. The sounds I was hearing were so impressive, especially considering that Harmony Zhu looked so adorable while playing a dark and stormy-sounding song. (Mny-Jhee / )Įllen had her perform before her interview, where Harmony Zhu played some amazing piano music. Ellen welcomed 8-year-old piano and chess prodigy Harmony Zhu to perform on piano and talk about her many incredible talents. Enthusiastic about the possibilities of disseminating classical music on a mass basis, Ballon made some of the earliest long-playing recordings (released on the Decca/ London label), and appeared on the CBC French-language television series "Heure du concert." In the 1950s, she initiated and sponsored a series of lectures by noted musical personalities including Gian-Carlo Menotti, Deems Taylor, and Lotte Lehmann. She also made a number of pioneering recordings of Villa-Lobos' piano compositions. Ballon was a warm friend of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, from whom she commissioned his First Piano Concerto, and she gave the work its world premiere under the composer's baton in Rio de Janeiro in 1946. Living and performing in Great Britain and the European Continent in the 1930s, she returned to Canada at the end of that decade and settled in Montreal. A major European tour in 1927 won Ballon great critical acclaim. Roosevelt and in 1954 for President Dwight D. In 1912, President William Howard Taft invited her to perform at the White House she performed there again in 1934 for President Franklin D. In 1910, Ballon made her New York concerto debut. At an early age, she earned praises from such pianistic greats as Josef Hofmann, Artur Rubinstein and Adele aus der Ohe. Gave world premiere of Heitor Villa-Lobos' First Piano Concerto under his baton in Rio de Janeiro in 1946.Ī child prodigy, Ellen Ballon was six when she won the director's prize at the McGill Conservatory. Born in Montreal in 1898 of Russian immigrant parents died in Montreal on December 21, 1969. Canadian pianist who made many pioneering records of Villa-Lobos' work and introduced it to the concert stage. ![]()
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