The 14-year-old pianist wants to drag classical music into the 21st century by creating an iPhone app for fans of the German composer.<br /><br />Question: What is the iBach app that you want to develop for the iPhone? Hilda Huang: So, this is of course, very unlikely because I can't <br /> program, but I'd like to create an iBach app where for every day of the <br /> year, the user can just click on the app and it'll show your Bach piece <br /> of the day. So, maybe that's an independent piece or maybe it's a <br />movement of a suite. But every day there's a new piece, because there's <br />so many pieces, not just keyboard works, but there's chorales, there's <br />violin pieces, cello pieces, orchestra suites. And every day I'm going <br />to attempt to put a new one and I think there's enough for I think three <br /> years, if every day is different. And with each piece, I'd like to <br />provide a short summary of what the piece is about, of what kind of a <br />dance it is. Of course, that's a lot of research, so that's going to <br />take a while to get together. But, that's what I'd like to do in the <br />future and just get people to find out what the Bach piece of the day is <br /> and then if I can't fit the whole piece of music on the app, then maybe <br /> provide a link for them to go to YouTube and listen to it and see what <br />kind of music that they're actually interested in. And I'm sure they'll <br />find something within this massive amount of works. So, in essence, it's <br /> going to help people explore more of Bach's music. Question: Why aren't more young people into classical music? Hilda Huang: I think classical music now has become less <br />successful than it was maybe 50, 100 years ago. I mean, now when we have <br /> pop albums coming out, they're $10 an album at every store, at every <br />store you can imagine, Wal-Mart, Target, wherever you want. Everybody <br />can just get access to them easily. And also the music itself is very <br />accessible. It's not as complex as what Bach and what other classical <br />musicians wrote. Certainly, there's a lot of instruments, but when you <br />look at say symphonies or the chorales or masses, there's much more <br />instruments. There's maybe 100 singers and an orchestra. So I think <br />people haven't discovered their own interest for digging deeper into <br />these kinds of music. They are just kind of interested in having <br />something nice to hear.Recorded on June 7, 2010Interviewed by Paul Hoffman<br /><br />Question: What is the iBach app that you want to develop for the iPhone? Hilda Huang: So, this is of course, very unlikely because I can't <br /> program, but I'd like to create an iBach app where for every day of the <br /> year, the user can just click on the app and it'll show your Bach piece <br /> of the day. So, maybe that's an independent piece or maybe it's a <br />movement of a suite. But every day there's a new piece, because there's <br />so many pieces, not just keyboard works, but there's chorales, there's <br />violin pieces, cello pieces, orchestra suites. And every day I'm going <br />to attempt to put a new one and I think there's enough for I think three <br /> years, if every day is different. And with each piece, I'd like to <br />provide a short summary of what the piece is about, of what kind of a <br />dance it is. Of course, that's a lot of research, so that's going to <br />take a while to get together. But, that's what I'd like to do in the <br />future and just get people to find out what the Bach piece of the day is <br /> and then if I can't fit the whole piece of music on the app, then maybe <br /> provide a link for them to go to YouTube and listen to it and see what <br />kind of music that they're actually interested in. And I'm sure they'll <br />find something within this massive amount of works. So, in essence, it's <br /> going to help people explore more of Bach's music. Question: Why aren't more young people into classical music? Hilda Huang: I think classical music now has become less <br />successful than it was maybe 50, 100 years ago. I mean, now when we have <br /> pop albums coming out, they're $10 an album at every store, at every <br />store you can imagine, Wal-Mart, Target, wherever you want. Everybody <br />can just get access to them easily. And also the music itself is very <br />accessible. It's not as complex as what Bach and what other classical <br />musicians wrote. Certainly, there's a lot of instruments, but when you <br />look at say symphonies or the chorales or masses, there's much more <br />instruments. There's maybe 100 singers and an orchestra. So I think <br />people haven't discovered their own interest for digging deeper into <br />these kinds of music. They are just kind of interested in having <br />something nice to hear.Recorded on June 7, 2010Interviewed by Paul Hoffman
