{"id":51690,"date":"2015-01-12T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=51690"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:04","slug":"refugee-child-prodigy-from-damascus-plays-piano-for-peace-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/refugee-child-prodigy-from-damascus-plays-piano-for-peace-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugee Child Prodigy from Damascus Plays Piano for Peace (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dec 18, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Rachmaninoff<\/em> <em>&#8211; Prelude C Sharp Minor Op 3\/Flight of the Bumblebee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store in a Turkish city last year, he had never played the piano before. Now, the shy Syrian refugee from Damascus is set to perform at Carnegie Hall in January 2015. His teachers say he could be the next Rachmaninoff. Dubbed a child prodigy by Turkish media, Tambi, now 16, made headlines earlier this month when Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally granted Turkish citizenship to the Cimuk family of four.<\/p>\n<p><em>The teenager, who left everything behind in Syria when his family fled to Turkey two years ago, says he hopes his music will somehow help foster peace. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UqTzaXm5DHE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store last year he had never played the piano before. The teenager, who left everything behind in Syria when his family fled to Turkey two years ago, says he hopes his music will somehow help foster peace. He will perform at Carnegie Hall in January 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}