Irish Examiner View: A young voice to treasure

Dara McAnulty's book Diary Of A Young Naturalist.

Music seems to offer more prodigies than most other art forms. Mozart was one. He, at the age of 14, is credited with copying Allegri’s Miserere, note for note, after hearing it just once in 1770. 

The 13-minute piece, one of our civilisation's most moving sacred choral works, was once closely-guarded and sung exclusively at Easter in the Vatican.