What is a Child Prodigy?
According to ScienceDaily.com “a child prodigy is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age.” Typically these tendencies begin to show at around 11 years. Elli has a headstart as does Eljin Yoo, a young musician in the orchestra and son of Mimi Yang, who helped coordinate the festival. Eljin started playing violin at the age of 6. As one of the organizers of the event, Yang was obviously bursting with pride that was equally dispersed among the visiting musicians, her son and the entire orchestra. She says that in the beginning it was her idea for Eljin to take violin lessons to balance the other activities he was involved in. He wasn’t particularly interested in music but his enthusiastic performance as an orchestra member at the Peace Music Festival that night showed he had come a long way in a short time. “In the beginning I had to ask him to practice. He really liked playing violin but was not that passionate about it,” says Yang. “But when Mr. Kudsi put him in the orch
According to ScienceDaily.com “a child prodigy is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age.” Typically these tendencies begin to show at around 11 years. Elli has a headstart as does Eljin Yoo, a young musician in the orchestra and son of Mimi Yang, who helped coordinate the festival. Eljin started playing violin at the age of 6. As one of the organizers of the event, Yang was obviously bursting with pride that was equally dispersed among the visiting musicians, her son and the entire orchestra. She says that in the beginning it was her idea for Eljin to take violin lessons to balance the other activities he was involved in. He wasn’t particularly interested in music but his enthusiastic performance as an orchestra member at the Peace Music Festival that night showed he had come a long way in a short time. “In the beginning I had to ask him to practice. He really liked playing violin but was not that passionate about it,” says Yang. “But when Mr. Kudsi put him in the orch
