I like how some of the male judges broke down, after looking a little skeptical.

She is a child prodigy for sure, but I wouldn't call her a "genius" or a "Mozart." Mozart was not just a child prodigy who could play complex tunes on piano as a child but he also composed great music.

A genius by definition has to produce original creative output.

We have all these math prodigies who can do super computer like calculations but they are NOT math geniuses.

A blind person can hear music and play music but there is this one Turkish blind(by birth) man who could paint with color and with three dimensional perspective. Those painting would make a professional painter proud. Now that's true genius.

Powerful emotion as rippling vibration moves heart to heart, ear to ear, around our Earth Mother. Odd that this little girl is being judged by a number...such a gift is off the grid of human interpretation. Humility -- humble reception -- is beyond a scorecard.

Thanks, so much for sharing this musical outpouring, Mallika. Sunday morning tears are a good thing as heart is stirred, mind is cleansed and body sees/hears humanity as family.

Trish~~

This artcile is interesting:

Mozart and Us

What the ur-prodigy has to teach his successors.

http://www.slate.com/id/2119873/

"Mozart still presides as the patron saint of modern child prodigies—and as a talismanic figure in the more mundane realm of bound-for-the-top "organization kids," too. Parents park their infants and toddlers in front of Baby Mozart videos (the best seller in the Baby Einstein line of educational audio-visual fare) so they won't miss out on the "Mozart effect."

...Mozart's father bequeathed us a misleading mystique of prodigious childhood achievement.

...But the recent discovery of a new symphony that may or may not be the work of the 8- or 9-year-old Mozart serves as a useful corrective, complicating the mythic vision of him as a divine marvel born at just the right musical moment.

...The story of the mystery symphony is basically this: Scholars in Vienna recently stumbled on a symphony in D that bears Mozart's name—but it's a discovery with a twist.

...The boy genius, for all his originality, was also an impressionable imitator. Either he availed himself of a score by an elder and rearranged it somewhat (as he did with some early concertos), or, if the work is shown to be his, he was composing derivative music that experts could mistake for that of a mediocre adult contemporary. In other words, young Mozart was not simply a little boy who was visited by inspirational bolts from the blue. He was an industrious student inundated by contemporaneous influences.

...There is no question that Mozart's youthful creativity was an amazing feat—a feat spurred on in part by his receptive cultural surroundings and, as Solomon points out, by his own avid receptivity to influence. But the wonder, certainly to a modern sensibility, is also that young Mozart thrived despite an early bombardment of demands and deadlines that sound as though they could well have waylaid, or worn out, a lesser genius. Being too plugged in to dominant cultural forces, of course, is a problem that contemporary classical music prodigies can only dream about having,...

...If Mozart is actually proof of anything, it may be that resilience cultivated in the face of overbearing influence and enforced dependence is one important secret to fulfilling rare genius.

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full artcile linked to screen name

I like the message she is bringing..."I am born to be loved...and to love" :)

Thanks, Mallika, for sharing this lovely message.

This is such a beautiful story, and yes, I did also think when she played the song You are born to be loved, at how important parents are to a young child such as she. Her mother was very interesting in her comments about the young girl. It is so fortunte for the child that she has attentive parents who encourage her and support her efforts.

I am wondering at what this says about her, that all she has to do is listen to a song, and then simply pick it up and play it with her heart and soul. Those tiny hands so expert and sure simply amaze me.

Does this mean or imply that she is a soul reborn who had been a musician? Is it possible?

Amazing video - thanks much for sharing!