Miguel de Maria -> RE: Paco vs. Paco (Aug. 20 2005 16:03:48)
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Reminds me of some stuff from this book, not sure I agree with it or not... "All the great musicians of past and present have this much in common: thye displayed their gifts early in childhood. It was said of Handel that he could sing before he could talk and one thinks immediaely of Mozart, classic example of the 'Wunderkind.'...The most important point about infant prodigies is that their talent manifests itself spontaneously, untaught and unlearned. In fact, it is often the discovery of talent in the child which has prompted his parents into arranging for it to be trained, not the reverse...Talent may be briefly defined as the ability to perform without training, the amount of talent displayed being in inverse proportion to the amount of training required....the integration of thought and action which the virtuoso takes for granted as part of his equipment is seldom achieved by lesser talents, even after long years of study and practice...Furthermore the equality of execution displayed in the finished product by the slow learner is not likely to surpass that of his quicker colleague...etc." The Pianist's Talent, Harold Taylor
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