'IN HIS NEW BOOK, Fugitive, the Australian pianist Simon Tedeschi describes the many faces of the child prodigy:
To his public, the child prodigy is a robot or a God.
To his rivals, he is a false prophet.
To his rivals’ teachers and parents, he is a demon.
To his society, he is a symbol.
But to himself, he is simply a ghost.
(Introduction)
(Introduction)