sexta-feira, 8 de novembro de 2013

Maria João Pires: Prodigy and Genius Meet

Classical music (successfully) facing its "fear", I think. 
Based on "the academy" (from conservatories to music departments of universities) which produces performers, trains talent and institucionalizes a way of thinking about music in such an organized set of formal arrangements, finds itself in the proximity of folk music - Maria João Pires, had she not good memory (and academic) skills, she would have entered the spontaneous and natural world of "popular culture".


“There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.” ― John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines
(And, though this happened  in 1998, I last read it here.)

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