Drew, who is now 18, said: “At first, it felt lonely. “He was reading textbooks this big, and they’re in class holding up a blowup M,” she said. On his way to kindergarten one day, Drew asked his mother, “Can I just stay home so I can learn something?” Sue was at a loss. “I thought it was delightful,” Sue said, “but I also thought we shouldn’t take it too seriously. Within the year, Drew was performing Beethoven sonatas at the recital hall at Carnegie Hall. “So I had to recall what little I remembered, which was the treble clef.” As Drew told me, “It was like learning 13 letters of the alphabet and then trying to read books.” He figured out the bass clef on his own, and when he began formal lessons at 5, his teacher said he could skip the first six months’ worth of material. Sue, who learned piano as a child, taught Drew the basics on an old upright, and he became fascinated by sheet music. “Church bells would elicit a big response,” Sue told me. Drew didn’t produce much sound at that stage, but he already cared about it deeply. When he was 18 months old, in 1994, she was reading to him and skipped a word, whereupon Drew reached over and pointed to the missing word on the page. Evan sees them and instinctively knows that his family is now complete.Stereoscope of violin prodigy Florizel von Reuter, 1911.ĭrew Petersen didn’t speak until he was 3½, but his mother, Sue, never believed he was slow. As Evan is onstage, Louis and Lyla are in the audience, entranced with Evan's piece, they eye each other and are finally reunited. Louis finds out that Lyla's playing there, so he too goes to the concert. That night he escapes and runs to the park. But Wizard takes him out of Juilliard and forbids him to go. Evan coincidentally will also perform at the concert, conducting his masterpiece. She takes up the cello again and is set to perform in an outdoor concert at Central Park. Meanwhile, Lyla has met with Richard and learns that Evan is missing. When Wizard's place is raided, Evan seeks refuge in a church, there he meets a pastor who is impressed with his talent, and enrolls him in Juilliard where he excels. Consequently, Louis tries to get in touch with Lyla but fails, he goes back to New York and joins his band. Meanwhile, Lyla's fathers reveals the truth to her on his deathbed, so Lyla moves to New York to find Evan. He is one of many kids controlled by Wizard, a guy who makes money off of street kids. Evan runs away to New York and meets a street performer who takes him back to his place. Present day, Evan finds a confidant in a social worker Richard and tells him that he will one day be reunited with his parents, wherever they are. She eventually moved to Chicago, and he moved to San Francisco, and didn't have the chance to meet again. Both Lyla and Louis do not know that they have a son. When Lyla had a car accident, his father told her that the baby died when he really gave it up for adoption. Lyla got pregnant but her father did not approve since it would ruin her career. His mom Lyla, a cellist, and dad Louis, a rocker, had a one night stand 11 years back. Evan is a music prodigy who lives in an orphanage and wants to look for his parents. A young musically-gifted boy goes to New York to look for his parents.
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