Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Pianist Corner is this cat really good? (catcerto promo b-minor )

She was 7 years and 10 months old when this video was recorded. After only 1 year piano education.

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She plays quite well. It would seem to me that she doesn't yet fully understand rubato and how to use it effectively, but that is not something one would expect from her age. That will undoubtedly come with time as she matures as a musician. This performance sounds a little perfunctory at the moment in certain spots.

On the other hand, she has very good balance between the hands, and the melody is nicely shaped, for the most part.

now, thats how scratching the keys are done proparly. People from the "Scratching the keys" topic should pay atention to this.

It's so beautiful!

That's hilarious!
But haunting....
I would rather listen to that cat's work, than some of the recent composers I had the misfortune of listening to.

That's pretty cool, hehe!

as you can tell cat plays by ear only...

I'm gonna tattle on you and tell Bruce.

That's actually very funny! [as is the OP]

I am really annoyed that one of my posts, taken verbatim from another context, would be used by Batuhan in this thread.

S/he can't think of something to say himself, so he steals my words. In a serious context, without attribution, this would be plagiarism. Here, it's a pretty cheap trick!

cannot tell, this piece is too easy. She doesn't sound like anything extraordinary playing this after one year. I could bring bunch of cats playing like that. IMO by definition a cat cennot be good enough except the technicall ability. Cats have nothing to tell yet.

Hey, I really didn't tattle!

C'mon. Lighten up, Bruce. Imitation is the sincerest form ..... and all that.

When someone takes an offense seriously, being told to "lighten up" really doesn't help.

And, by the way, this wasn't "imitation;" hence, I am not flattered.

This is hilarious! ROFLMAO!!

Thanks for the belly laughs! Yes, that cat is very good... even considering her young age and limited education. And, being a cat-lover deluxe, I think she's just plain cute...

But you do need to lighten up. It was a joke. And it's just a forum ..........

Seven years old for a cat is MUCH older for humans. Nora is "really good" but there are better cats on Youtube. "Really good" is a relative term.

I can't tell if Nora plays all those seconds because they're really in the score or if her technique's a little sloppy.

For my tastes, Nora does a little tpo much hamming for the audience with her continual turning to look at them...kind of like Liberace but without the cheshire cat-like grin. If she really wants to be taken seriously as an artist...

yeah I wish she looked at the conductor more when he cued.. tsk tsk.

well, the cat plays better than me.

but don't be discouraged, cat plays already 1 year, you'll get there too...