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| Re: Optimum Stereo Signal Recording with the Jecklin Disk [message #59501 is a reply to message #59467] |
Mon, 24 October 2005 14:26  |
DC
Messages: 722 Registered: July 2005
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>>band
>>members might as well go to McDonalds or something while this kid
>>plays....
>>"DC" <dc@spamsony.com> wrote in message news:4388ba1a$1@linux...
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>>> "Tom Bruhl" <Arpegio@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> >Just plain spooky.
>>> >
>>> >Tom
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>>> I've seen the same thing in young classical players. When you get
>>> to know them a bit you realize it is a savant-like quickness in the
>>> mind that allows them to play at such unearthly levels. In a way, it
>>> is like Rain Man, if you know what I mean.
>>>
>>> Now comes the hard part. They have to learn everything else
>>> about music, and really apply themselves in the next few years to
>>> even maintain their current levels of playing. The *worst* thing that
>>> can happen is adults fawning over them and praising them to the
>>> sky and comparing them to the greats, and getting them record
>>> deals. Yet this is usually what happens. When it does, the prodigy
>>> disappears and is never heard from again.
>>>
>>> In classical, if you have a great teacher, they keep your nose to the
>>> wheel, and let you know that you have along way to go. The
>>> parents will be smart, and reserved with their praise and exposure of
>>> the child to the public.
>>>
>>> Then you can end up with another Mozart, but it is rare today; fame
>>> is too much of a drug to most people.
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