Word: prodigyhood
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...artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual step down from prodigyhood, tend to be identified with high IQ scores. (Quart is quick to say that she herself was not a prodigy...
...Shaham has survived the hazards of prodigyhood to become the outstanding American violinist of his generation. His forthright, incisive playing can be heard at its youthful peak in this remarkable new recording (which also includes Bartok's First and Second Rhapsodies). Shaham's soaring interpretation, at once fiery and nobly lyrical, is a near perfect realization of a modern masterpiece; Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony provide lucid support...
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