Another two-year-old child, Jay Greenberg, likewise surprised his parents by drawing pictures
of musical instruments that he had never seen. They soon discovered that Jay “heard music in
his head.” He began to compose music at age three. By age ten, he was attending the wellknown
Juilliard Conservatory in New York, composing full symphonies. Jay was noted not only
for the quality of his musical work, but also the speed at which he was able to produce it. That
is, while talented professional composers normally write five or six symphonies in a lifetime, Jay
wrote five by the age of 12