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save the date for the d. w. global media forum 2023 in bonn, germany and increasingly fragmented world with a growing number of voices, digitally amplified. we see where this clutter can lead what we really need, overcoming divisions into vision for tomorrow's journalism. save the date and join us for this discussion at the 16th edition of d. w. c. global media forum. oh, different to manage that at 8 years old. that even looking at it today at $42.00. he comes close to that strange 10 wound came from because one like it. oh, musical child prodigies. take our breath away. the quest,
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the musical perfection is their top priority. when close, my goal is to play carnegie hall. it is glue. the extraordinary challenge often appears very early. this estimate, i 1st started playing piano when i was to, i started playing in compose to helping complete the cliche is the child prodigies . a lonely, with few friends. and i drilled to perfection point out, talk to i don't to cry under pressure not to shake under pressure that there are kids 567 years old who get incredible migraines, off to concerts. i did to god, oh, how much miracle is there in highly talented children? are they born with these extraordinary abilities? we talked to former char prodigies as well as a human development researcher, a music psychologist and a music historian. ah,
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german star violinist david garrett is one of today's most successful crossover musicians. his fusion of classical and pop fills holes and stadiums around the world. which by music for me, music has always let me breathe, given me energy and joy at us yet. and i can give plasma whitewashing the violin was a means to an end. if i was good at it, i learned to play fairly quickly alone. and that of course, i also worked hard harmless. oh, his journey with the violin began at full years old by the gale, recognized his son's talent and started teaching him. ah, david took giant stamps and gave his 1st solo concerts with an orchestra at the age
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of 9. and you're very aware of all the hours you've spent on each night that you've worked really hard for it. us housed opposite of working hard on the notes is one thing that what makes a child prodigy. there isn't any doubt that the children have natural capabilities that are very rare. it also requires the efforts of those around the child to be equally focused and equally dedicated and equally wise about how to support and to remote at talent. david's father invested in him, his career broke records. at 13, he was the youngest musician ever to be signed by renowned classical music label to which a grammar phone for several albums. david has worked with stars like conductor claudio,
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a battle so been met her and violent virtuoso yahoo, d menu hin at the deal, feel like a burden to you. growing up on hayden tuck every day up. absolutely. can no kid willingly sacrifices the time it takes to reach the top, the man, there's always someone in the background or whether it's the mother and father or the teachers. it's emma earned money. winter want infinity. matar ordered a photo. would i deliver about i one of those 3 is always there much slippery in hand and empathy. what's it like to be a gifted child? can they still have a childhood? ah, in peter's hunger, near berlin, miles and maddox govern the family's daily life. simona marcella is driving her
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sons to piano and violin lessons to day. one of 7 lessons per week. she says she often gets judged i get labeled as a pushy mother who keeps her po, kids away from life and forces them to practice the piano and violin. i've also seen someone on facebook say the best way to make money is with small children. people ignore the fact that it takes money, time and nerves. they see what they want to see. i'm visible to actually what's gonna happen. nurturing her children's challenge is a full time job for this single mother. in berlin, concert pianist, elisa vetter lumina, has been teaching medics and miles for about 4 years. the boys cannot imagine living without piano and violin. these entities are still then you're in even does he, if we see like here that there's nothing without music, then i have to do everything to make sure that they have the groundwork to decide
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later if they want less or not on concrete, untrodden beliefs of relief. hospital politeness. oh la to it's johan has known this focus on music since childhood. the 19 year old has already performed on many major stages and is considered a highly gifted pianist. ah, my brother, 13 year old philip is also a talented pianist. and an i might have off in a normal week, we practice a lot. we have rehearsals, sometimes concepts. we spend 34, sometimes 5 days at the university in belgium park, in that one if i bring in begun. ah, the siblings are multi talented. the teacher started school aged for and finished high school. at 14, she studies with a conservatory in belgium, as does phillip, they've never known the kind of schooling that other children have. manish woodside,
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so bush, the way i described my time at school should photo is that i always stood out to find been does the and i only had to say half a sentence and everyone knew i was a bit different. i let. okay. and is missing unless anessa and christian han arranged their lives around their children's name. i have to be flexible in their work. analysts or intensive support would be impossible. and that takes energy. isaac. yeah, they normally play about 60 concepts per year. right now there are more abroad in japan, china and south america. she not done ah . ringback medics practices the piano 3 to 4 hours a day. he repeats the variations on a theme by violin virtua. so paganini, until every note is perfect. this hardly a music competition. he hasn't one and has accumulated more than a 100 prices so far. as good time,
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i never get to the point where i'm completely happy with the way i play it to flee . maddox is a fast learner and has an insatiable hunger for knowledge. he needs to work on complex tasks and even as a toddler, that was already challenging for his parents. law school. i'm glad when he got ward, which often turned into screaming and tantrums, that would sometimes last for 20 minutes. because if you could see that, he just didn't know what to do with himself. but his godfather told us he's under challenged. he needs activity and input for his brain, or he's so smart that he needs a difference to me. listen. and that's when music came in. at the age of 3 medics played his 1st melodies on the piano. it may even be, although there's no way to know yes for sure. that child cottages in the music have as a natural and our preference for music as their primary way of
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communicating with the world more then speech and language and more than any other area. but whether it's that or not, it's certainly very powerful and it drives full. maddox was already giving his 1st concerts. oh and at 7 he played a concert at the prestigious mozart you music academy in salzburg, austria metrics and miles have been taken out of normal schooling. it's a decision that can actually be beneficial for musically gifted children. right now it won't grasp links foster. he doesn't need to spend 6 hours at school if he can get it done in one or 2 i'd o, that's why we said he doesn't have to do the time in school. he can learn at his own pace when it suits him aside and opens item. and that also gives him enough time to prepare for concent site and competition slide. since he doesn't have to spend as much time in school feeding a site or fun. but for the short of their world is not the same as your world or my
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world. it's a different kind of experience, and it has to be dealt with in its own way so that they often isolate themselves so that they can focus and the outside world we look at that is something that is objectionable, but it may be necessary. david garrett's father may show his son's childhood could be completely devoted to the violin, music, education, concerts, and studio recordings with the highest priority. he got david, both the best teachers and meetings with the most important decision makers in the music industry. in his recently published biography, if you only knew david guy describes, among other things, a childhood without children o advice and also i thought i was definitely an outside who d. i and i was a child in an adult profession kind. it's not usually
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a profession done by kids itself. he'd say if it were, it would be called child labor amenities, my dad, of course, he can't call it that up in the form, but i was only surrounded by adults. i was only 13, but the conversations at the record company were with adults in with the directors to conductors, the teachers and the patrons after the concerts. everyone around me was an adult at the intend on. it says at our ppd, alice, our vaccine does, i'm and you never wanted to break away well with of or fun it from was my does, it wouldn't been why didn't even know i was in something you could break out of had the can fog light. i had no comparison if it has you but high when you grow up in a shoe box and you don't know any one outside of the shoe box in south, that shoe box is the world who box the there's david kept exceeding audience expectations. but that didn't save him from his father's criticism at as if he were talking, he put
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a lot of emphasis on me understanding very quickly what he didn't think was good. so he always made his own recordings of the concerts. my direct often um moved out on the car ride home, we listened to it through the speakers and of course he immediately began voicing his criticism like the critic, po garza. ah, he's looking back. he believes he never would have made it to the top of the ultra exclusive classical music business without his father's perfectionism and pressure . at my labor, he made my life possible. luke lift them up of the heart all in a hard way of him. but mozart didn't have it any easier once,
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nor did paganini like i got in comparison. i was probably handled with kid gloves, but i know they were beaten. black and blue isn't a, i'm pretty sure about that customer say i was not every gifted musician experienced as a childhood of pressure and sacrifice. not all of them become stars, but they do have one thing in common. it's that they've always been fascinating throughout history that have been many musical geniuses whose tongue was considered otherworldly by contemporaries back beethoven and handle this stick that in the middle of the paper, were more religious in the 18th century and associated something divine with the concept of these miracle children, that sentiment is probably a bit lost on us nowadays, although the term miracle is to use to describe them. and i think it's still influences our perception of this phenomenon in august. as for one child, prodigy, most people will know is vulcan. on the day of mozart, born in 1756,
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he wrote his 1st compositions at the age of 5. his father leopold recognized his son's extraordinary talent early on and began to promote him publicly. the script and belief on there is a letter from leopold mozart where he basically says that a miracle had taken place in salzburg and that god had caused a prodigy to be born that had his choice of words makes me think of the nativity story with a kind of musical savior having entered the world, i say gleiss am i not? was a casual highland of david is in saigon for i listen i'm. it's like instagram the own. it was all fake. even back in the 18th century form, he just used these stories to fill the newspapers, to create some vas as creating an image, the to the absolutely, ah, could the whole concept of the child for the change is be the result of a clever p r campaign his father made
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a profit by taking 7 year old more than one extensive concert 2 is my most guns, passingly appointment. there is no doubt that leopold mozart was a shrewd businessman. he wrote somewhere and we must do this now because in 2 years time this ora will be gone. was the older mozart gets? the more his child prodigy status will fade document. leopold mozart knew that he had to act quickly. schnell, again, vulcan amadeus mozart. the prototype of a child prodigy. also in terms of his talent. there is a long history, for example, of trying to, to her tray, most charges having had gifts or protean across many different fields. the reality is that mozart was unbelievable, probably gifted. and his musical, alice, but he wasn't particularly adopt in anything else. and that's more typical of the child prodigy, a conductor, daniel, baron boy,
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maiden name to himself in childhood. both is a piano player and a conductor. he was already studying conducting at the age of 10, but is reported to have once said that he was never a child prodigy. he merely got off to start who to go to diplomatic form, when to put it diplomatically. if you take someone who is wonderfully talented and combine that with a lot of work, it can come across as if it's something incredible on get all the pieces this them on the i letting some within. but once you have a loop behind the scenes and you know how much work goes into it, it doesn't seem like a miracle at all that they became a child prodigy wound. i can hope for the i'm gonna but how exactly can we define a prodigy? and is this such a thing is natural talent? can any child become in musical wonder? ah, it's just not true that you could take any child in this and work hard enough at it
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. you could use the highest levels of achievement. it just is not true. interestingly, a child's i q plays little to no roman explaining musical talent. professor feldman to find some musical prodigy to someone who from the age of 10 can perform at the same level as an adult professional and has the necessary dispositions. one of those is that your child has a natural affinity for music and a natural ability to, to perform, to compose or to be, to be in the musical world. in addition, the child has to have the discipline, has to have a tendency to focus and to be persistent for the wound. kin needs to have the potential to achieve outstanding things. however, in order for it to happen, the environment needs to be chest right. either if it's on this definition of
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gifted, that is having the potential to achieve something great is pretty much hypothetical . there are lots of ifs and buts and you need the right conditions. someone who has just started to play an instrument won't be pulling off the top to performance from the get go. but in some cases, it is possible to see a trajectory for me and predict what the next 5 years might bring. the longest lessons ah, behind the scenes, most char products have highly invested parents. they are the ones that with this support, see their children progress in the vital 1st stages of development. would you settle for this highly and or is solar the only option? only solo only solo and if that doesn't work out within the santa would, and if not, well, i don't know. why shouldn't it? ah, and a sophie motto was right. she's been at the very top tier in the world violin for
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almost 4 decades now. and so she had her 1st violin lessons at the age of 5. since then she hasn't put the instrument down. he she is at age 10. 0 my last look. i think if you're not a enough to discover something early on, that makes you happy and have the opportunity to do it professionally. i've been, it doesn't really matter how long you get to be in that profession. see 10 years or 50 plus 50 or are, can i from my parents fully supported answer the right from the start and at any cost, ah, in on some fall isn't, is money. we spend a few 1000 marks a year on anna. so fees, musical education was look like we never force anything on her lee. we let her develop her skills as she sees fit, certify she herself,
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wants to be violinist more than any things age. our role is to make sure that she has all the opportunities and can follow the path she wants to take your feet. a movie on a sophie motto was just 13 years old when conductor herbert from carrion, discovered her becoming her mental. the beginning of a fairy tale career that continues to this day without the initial support of her parents. none of this might ever have happened. the choke had, have all the talent in the world and in the wrong family in the wrong circumstances was wrong. teachers, it will not happen. the situation becomes problematic when parents live vicariously through their children. encouragement and support continued to drilling and coercion, the childhood of chinese pianist lang lang, was one marred by poverty and a despotic father help and from promoting his talented on his early years were characterized by ruthless discipline and constant. philip, japanese violinist,
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missouri was also subject to immense pressure growing up under a strict and ambitious mother. at the age of 14, she was already working with the likes of leonard bernstein bidding her early twenties. she suffered a mental breakdown so severe that it took a whole 6 years and several hospitalizations before she could find her way back to music. that there's always a danger in putting children under this kind of pressure. it can quite easily become detrimental and not conducive to a successful career. but individuals react to outside influence very differently. how they develop then is down to psychological predispositions, vision on dogs, which will, oh, but talon needs to be nurtured. the question facing parents like simona ma select to what extent it's undeniable that maddox and miles live for their music and their performances. they have to at the globe for countless concerts and competitions.
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beat in israel, or a competition at london's royal albert hall. working with a prodigy is a different kind of parenting than it is or most of their children. it means that for example, a family will sacrifice in living where they live and travel half way across the world to go to the place where they believe that child will have the best opportunity with a single mother, caring for not one but 2 highly talented sons. means around the clock support. ah, haven't others done guyana lessons? violin lesson is singing lessons, composition lessons, mental the wrestling home one day. you have to go get him. you though the next you have to go get a violin, a think you have to pass concerts and competitions. it's a lot to do. what does that leave any time for you?
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like no time for me. miles and medics were made for the stage. and it's already clear to them where they are headed all the way to the top. that's happening will be on the big stage as soon enough happening. clump like, oh my goal is to play carnegie whole to school. but a korea isn't guaranteed in this highly competitive world. most child prodigy say good bye to the idea of becoming a professional musician before they reach adulthood. ah, what was missing, but you have to know what to do with that kind of talent. how to use it to something that fulfills you and makes you happy. i was globally smart today as a young adult. let's johan is sure. one thing being a pianist is her colin. it's mixed to an inclusion music with the wound because it's what i enjoyed. we could still express myself. it's a kind of language without word disorder finished the day after the mother. i don't support my children in what they do. that's disruptive and we didn't want that boy
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. oh, david garrett had to learn to withstand the daily pressure from his parents. after all an international career and music required perfection day after day. ah, they have been each day, could you am i to criticize how my parents raised me then that's good when it's made my adult life so much easier isn't this leaned out it's essentially an ethical question either. would you rather have a relax childhood only to struggle through the rest of life afterwards and sponsors would are lacking? or do you say okay, maybe my childhood wasn't ideal, but life got easy afterwards because of it. think that you answer me that either by dr. ross of us lead none of their life, but unfortunately, dude, us is good. it is a child. you can't consciously make that kind of decision on your own was align.
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the prep is true, but i also can't look back and say was the wrong decision. i just can't ah, so what does it all boil down to in the end? the challenge for the child prodigy and the child prodigy family is to bring that towel to its full expression. it requires deep knowledge and understanding and you can register the best way to navigate a child's upbringing and education is to cultivate their self confidence. parents need to get their children the courage to take risks and find their own way, skipped the best parents and best teachers don't put the child into circumstances where that child's sense of development is distorted. it's tricky because ah, synagogue children should be allowed to enjoy being young. i do everything i can to
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make sure medic from miles have their time off time where they can be kids like the others or and on one foot. shake, sad fate has been incredibly good to me, but i've worked hard to get where i am now. but i am also aware that i've been very, very lucky right. time. right. place i my past has always been easy, but i wouldn't change a single moment because it put me here today. ah, with ah, ah, ah, with
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