[log in to unmask] writes: >Clearly, these youngsters have not made the great accomplishments that >warrant all the hype. In the world of real estate, location is everything. >In classical music, it's - money, money, money!!! I saw some of the program about the nature of genius (between programs-intermmission) and again wonder about true genius. Is it possible to market a true genius? I mean there are lots of whiz kids (so they say) who starting playing music at 3 yrs of age and exploited for what it is worth. But where are the kids who have some profound connection with music and exists in some world that others never quite understand and bring music from this place and everyone knows they know but cannot put a finger on what it is. Itzhak Perman started out rather average (no whiz kid it seems) and he admitted on David Letterman late nite that he was just OK during his teenage years. And yet, to me, he seems to have become this channel of excellence in making music. Is this marketing or true development of finding a depth that cannot be taught? Graumuix(sp) was another who seem to do no wrong. I guess what I am saying is that pushing the concept of genius (music, academic, or science) is not the real thing since history has shown that the real thing (genius)? does not always start out in some prodigious development of extraordinary display. Glenn Miller