For piano prodigy, music is easy as A-B-C
MIAMI - His feet can't reach the pedals. And his little fingers sometimes have trouble getting to the proper keys.
But if you close your eyes, you'd never know it.
Six-year-old Ethan Bortnick is a classical pianist. Already, he fetches $400 for a 15-minute performance and is recording his own CD. The boy's teacher, Dr. Irena Kofman, is wowed by his astonishing memory. She says he can play more than 200 compositions, from Beethoven's "Fur Elise" to Disney's "It's a Small World," all without sheet music.
The Hollywood, Fla., kindergartner is more modest: "I just like playing piano," he says, while watching "Dora the Explorer" on a rainy afternoon. "It's not that hard." Read More
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