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Soon Leslie was playing these tunes on the piano and used other instruments such as drums, accordion, and chord organ. Even though his spasticity was so severe that he could not hold eating utensils, this handicap disappeared when playing the piano. By age 12 Leslie was playing the piano and singing songs he had heard for hours on end.
During one of his first lessons, one of two piano teachers showed him one scale, one time, and he played the other 11 scales back that same day. By the age of 7, Lewis-Clack's piano abilities coupled with both blindness and manifestation of autistic symptoms led to the label "prodigious musical savant". [ 1 ]
An autistic child. The struggle for services. The 911 calls. This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.
Despite his young age and his autism, and even without formal instruction in musical composition, [7] Savage is an accomplished musician and composer. He has released twelve albums as a solo performer, as leader of the Matt Savage Trio and as leader of various sized ensembles.
These were the other successful auditions of American Idol Season 20’s third episode:. Tristen Gressett, 17: “Piano Man”/“Colors” This mustachioed, rubber-legged, “17 years young ...
Christian has already accomplished so much and later this year, he'll head off to college—to pursue his love of music. "I currently serve now as the drum major for my school's marching band ...
The band's name has been a controversial topic, though the group has claimed that rather than mocking it, they are paying homage to autism and the people affected by it. [1] [3] [5] In 2009, Hansen told an interviewer, "People have thought that we're making fun of autistic people, but nothing could be further from the truth. The name is an ...
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