“I’m going to let all you music-lovers in on a little secret: we professional musicians don’t have much use for the phenomenon of the Child Prodigy. Six year old violinists playing Mendelssohn; ten year old pianists playing Rachmaninov; and especially *shudder* twelve year old girls belting out operatic arias… or country music… or whatever… on national television? Yeah, it’s impressive. Sort of. You can keep ’em; I have no interest, especially when it comes to the miniature singers…”
