http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in657713.shtml
http://www.juilliard.edu/update/jour...story_0305.asp
If anyone in India has matched this, I'd sure love to know about him/her.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in657713.shtml
http://www.juilliard.edu/update/jour...story_0305.asp
If anyone in India has matched this, I'd sure love to know about him/her.
What a bore!!!!
genius./? so what..why dont u come up with something itneresting to post!
NERUPPU:
"What a bore!!!!
genius./? so what..why dont u come up with something itneresting to post!"
Why don't you?
The entire online classical community is abuzz about this prodigy, and Mr.NERUPPU finds this to be not "itneresting"(sic) enough. Why even venture into threads that don't engage your attention I wonder? Feel free to discuss deeply compelling topics like Sarath Kumar movies or whatever.
This article should make some of us posters here re-think when we loosely use terms like "genius" to describe TFM MDs :-)
vijayr:
Precisely my intention in posting the links! You have my congratulations for catching my drift.
You'll also notice how the "re-thinking" that you speak of is already causing grief to NERUPPU, whose psychological investment in one or the other TFM "genius" is no doubt jeopardized by this contact with the real world. See how it has forced him into the absurd position of claiming that the arrival of perhaps the most brilliant young composer in the last 200 years is "boring".
Observer_is_back & vijayr,
Nice links and observations.
However, the term Genius is not limited to only this person of superior musical talent. Please check the following from dictionary.com (it also has many other definitions like IQ of 140 etc.):
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Source: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
genius
n 1: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" [syn: mastermind, brain, Einstein] 2: unusual mental ability [syn: brilliance] 3: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 4: exceptional creative ability [syn: wizardry] 5: a natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" [syn: flair]
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By these definitions, there may be 100's of genius personalities right now in Chennai:-)
eden, now what is considered "exceptional" is the question :-)
There cannot be a single defintion of what is considered 'exceptional' as it differs from individuals.
While Observer is back intention to point out that the attached links demonstrates how he evaluates genius is acceptable, an intention to belittle those who consider their favorite MDs as genius based on thier standards exposes an ignorance.
Aferall, genius is an adjective rather than a degree conferred by an institution based on thier established set of standards.
Yes, this kid is a 'child prodigy'. (prodigy as in prodigious means 'more' ) I dont think he can be called a 'genius'. Even his professor, Sam Adler, was a child prodigy. Not all child prodigies turn into a 'genius' later on. Einstein is considered by many as quintessence of a genius, but I dont think he was a 'child prodigy'. Above all, the quoted articles themselves, only say, the child has the POSSIBILITY of becoming a Bach or Beethoven or a master composer of that caliber.
Anybody is free to call anybody a genius, if there are more people calling one particular person as genius, only then it takes on a serious connotation. Ofcourse, when we were in the university, didn't we call one of few our smart classmates as genius ?.