16th Mar 2003
Kyle Coolidge
Listening to a rebroadcast of Prairie Home Companion this morning from their annual “Talent From Towns Under Two Thousand Contest” (from April 2001), I was quite astonished by the talent of (then) 11-year-old Kyle Coolidge. Not only was the piece he played on the piano quite complex for those little fingers to get around, but he composed it himself: “Pahs Gahs Nos. 1, 2, & 3″ (RealAudio file). Part Chopin, part Monk. Really remarkable. Unfortunately, he doesn’t come up much on Google that I can see, so I don’t know if his talent has been much recognized since. Nor did he win the contest, which went instead to (then) 17-year-old fiddler Katie Kerkhover, who, by constrast, is quite web savvy (with her own site that includes a newsletter and downloadable screensavers and wallpaper of herself, no less), and who won, I suspect, in large part because she’s a little hottie and was wearing a prom dress.
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