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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Defining prodigyhood downward

Eight-year old Ethan Bortnick appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show two days ago. Since he was introduced as a prodigy pianist, I was curious to see how he would fare. Well, he was a talented boy, as he sang and played a song he composed for Leno. He also had a nice jazzy sense of music. But as far as technical accomplishment is concerned, I would not call him a prodigy.

This one was a real prodigy: accompanying a Beethoven violin sonata at five, and 32 Beethoven piano sonatas at ten; in addition to other talents than music.

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