Name: 【TED】Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius (Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius)
Uploaded: 2017-01-28T22:00:06.000Z
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Adam Ockelford: I promise there won't be too much

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of me talking, and a lot of Derek playing,

Past simple

but I thought it would just be nice to recap

It's amazing now, because he's so much bigger than me,

he could have fitted on the palm of your hand.

He was born three and a half months premature,

and really it was a fantastic fight for him to survive.

because when Derek came home from the hospital,

his family decided to employ the redoubtable nanny

was to think, here's a child who can't see.

And sure enough, she sang, or as Derek called it, warbled,

And I think it was that excitement with hearing her voice

hour after hour every day that made him think

maybe, you know, in his brain something was stirring,

Here's a little picture of Derek going up now,

Now Nanny's great other insight was to think,

perhaps we should get Derek something to play,

and sure enough, she dragged this little keyboard

But Derek, your tiny hand must have gone out to that thing

bashed it so hard they thought it was going to break.

But out of all the bashing, after a few months,

and I think there was just a miracle moment, really, Derek,

when you realized that all the sounds you hear in the world

out there is something that you can copy on the keyboard.

Now, not being able to see meant, of course,

Derek Paravicini: I taught myself to play.

and even a bit of nose going on in there.

was to press the record button on one of those little

and this is a wonderful tape, now, of Derek playing

DP: "Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels)."

AO: It wasn't actually "Cockles and Mussels."

You know, there's this little child who can't see,

can't really understand much about the world,

has no one in the family who plays an instrument,

there was quite a lot of body action going on

Now, along -- Derek and I met when he was four and a half years old,

and at first, Derek, I thought you were mad, to be honest,

you seemed to want to play every single note on the keyboard,

So as soon as I tried to get near the piano,

that I would try to teach you, I was then slightly confused

But after a while, I thought, well, the only way

is to just pick you up, shove Derek over to the other side of the room,

and in the 10 seconds that I got before Derek came back,

And in the end, Derek, I think you agreed

that we could actually have some fun playing the piano together.

I just realized this is going to be recorded, isn't it? Right. Okay.

This is a photo of you, Derek, playing at the Barbican

Basically it was just an exciting journey, really.

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