The Tampa Bay Times profiled the twins in November, as Elias prepared to play at Carnegie Hall. She pledged she wouldn't cut their hair and she hasn't. Phoenix said nurses poked and prodded the twins, often shaving their hair to insert IVs. Their long locks are rooted in the five weeks they spent in the hospital following their preterm birth. They have waist-length golden hair and like to perform wearing hats and bow ties. The boys' look is as unique as their talents. Elias loves classical music while Zion enjoys jazz music and art. Phoenix, who homeschools the twins, taught the boys piano at age 3. "Some sound promising and it's flattering," she said. "There has been a lot of interest in the boys since the ( Ellen) show."īree Phoenix didn't want to go into detail about the offers, saying she is not sure what she will accept or reject. "We have been inundated with stuff from all over the world," said the twins' mom, Bree Phoenix, who declined to confirm the upcoming performance. I can never, ever, ever remember.Now, it seems, just about everyone wants to do something with the boys. But I can't remember the whole improvisation, though. "I can write it down in my notebook, maybe, for when I'm writing a piece. "I can't remember everything that I did in this improvisation," Alma says. She adds an Alberti bass - a kind of repeated broken chord - in her left hand, and her right hand takes off, playing what sounds to be a fully formed piece, composed in the time it took to read this blog.īut then, just as quickly as the notes came to her, they're gone. "'It's difficult to teach her because one always has the sense she'd been there before.'" Alma Deutscherīack at the keyboard, Alma plays the four notes again. "You know, her piano teacher once said, 'It's a bit difficult with Alma,'" Guy Deutscher tells Pelley. Both of them are amateur musicians, but neither understands the mystery of their daughter's genius. She teaches Old English literature, and he is a noted linguist. "But then, actually sitting down and developing the melodies, that's the really difficult part-having to tell a real story with the music."Īlma's parents, Guy and Janie, are professors. "Sometimes when I get the melodies, I hear them just sung, or I hear a melody for orchestra," she says. But the melodies, she says, are the easy part.
They come as she walks, as she plays, as she sleeps. "I think that it makes much more sense if he falls in love with her because she composed this amazing melody to his poem," Alma explains, "because he thinks that she's his soulmate, because he understands her."Īlma is used to melodies popping into her head. When Cinderella finds a poem the prince wrote, she's inspired to set it to music and sing it to the prince at the ball. Rather, Alma's reimagined character is a composer, and the prince, a poet. In December 2017, the Opera San Jose Orchestra staged her opera Cinderella in her American debut.īut it's not the Cinderella of fairytale. Two years ago, "60 Minutes" was there as she prepared her violin concerto and piano concerto at the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Alma DeutscherĪlma, who is British, has already performed her compositions around the world. "I just think about it for a few minutes," she tells Pelley, who patiently observes.
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