Okay, here are your tickets. Enjoy the show. Your tickets, please, follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: A prodigy is described as a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities ...

Recently, Yuanfan Yang has been busy preparing for his upcoming Scotland tour, learning Chopin's Fantasie in F minor and piano sonatas by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, respectively. Then there's ...

It has become the fashion to sneer at musical child prodigies. The market has been drugged with them. It has been said that the child prodigy grows up into a mediocrity, that such precocity is ...

Child prodigies evoke awe, wonder and sometimes jealousy: how can such young children display the kinds of musical or mathematical talents that most adults will never master, even with years of ...

When Nashville musicians Giri and Uma Peters prepared to travel to Raleigh, N.C., to perform at the Bluegrass Ramble in September, they packed their instruments, a week’s worth of clothes and the ...

One may not normally picture classical music when thinking of impoverished neighborhoods. Yet one of Nairobi’s biggest slums is currently churning out musical prodigies thanks to an initiative dubbed ...

It is appropriate that “Yuto” sounds a little like “YouTube,” because the former is definitely a hit on the latter. There is Yuto Miyazawa, ripping his ax on “Crazy Train”: more than 1.4 million views ...

Prodigies dazzle us with their virtuoso violin concertos, seemingly prescient chess moves, and vivid paintings. While their work would be enough to impress us if they were 40, prodigies typically ...

At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Pianist Tatyana Roytshteyn has been a professionally trained ...

The infant: prodigy entered. The hall became quiet. . . . He looked as though he were nine years old but was really eight and given out for seven.—Thomas Mann, The Infant Prodigy. All great musicians ...