a young genius blooms in the dark seas of our post-millennial tabloid reality
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Oh my god. Speechless. Thank you for the link.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
That should be required reading for the scores of well-meaning but deluded parents who bark at teachers and students alike when little Johnny doesn't reach the dizzy heights of stardom after 2 years of lessons. I think nowhere in the field of human endeavour is the concept of raw talent as something you're just given, and that you can't learn or compensate for with hard work, more keenly demonstrated than in classical music, in particular composition. Some people just walk around all the time with melodies flying out of their heads, it's true...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
" I don't really know, but it's really very normal to me to go around -- walk around and having melodies popping into my head. It's the most normal thing in the world. For me, it's strange to walk around and not to have melodies popping into my head. "
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Got fed up with the US style advert every 40 seconds and binned it. Shame, it might have been good.
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
I was able to predict that you were the author of this post, strictly by the verbiage in your thread title (not seeing your screen handle), from the home page. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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That should be required reading for the scores of well-meaning but deluded parents who bark at teachers and students alike when little Johnny doesn't reach the dizzy heights of stardom after 2 years of lessons. I think nowhere in the field of human endeavour is the concept of raw talent as something you're just given, and that you can't learn or compensate for with hard work, more keenly demonstrated than in classical music, in particular composition. Some people just walk around all the time with melodies flying out of their heads, it's true...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
Mel Padden wrote:
That should be required reading for the scores of well-meaning but deluded parents
The question is in whose interest those kind of parents are well-meaning..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Got fed up with the US style advert every 40 seconds and binned it. Shame, it might have been good.
Consider a custom HOSTS-file. Got mine from here: Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Consider a custom HOSTS-file. Got mine from here: Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
Ha, that is just like Linux! :)
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Consider a custom HOSTS-file. Got mine from here: Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
Works sweet, nice tip. Thanks! :)
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I was able to predict that you were the author of this post, strictly by the verbiage in your thread title (not seeing your screen handle), from the home page. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Slacker007 wrote:
I was able to predict that you were the author of this post, strictly by the verbiage in your thread title
I do that regularly with Bill's post. Only rarely does someone else post something with a title that results in a false positive. ;)
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Meet Alma, a 12-year old musical genius: [^]. Warning: her beauty and joie de vivre may make even old crocodiles (like me) shed a tear.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
I saw that piece, I must say that her enthusiasm is boundless, it was nice to watch. Refreshing to a child that doesn't have a damn cell phone in their hands.
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