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Jazz pianist and composer Charles Cornell is not alone in his contempt for the sort of dumbed down musical fare typical of children’s programming. The late Johnny Costa, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s long-time musical director and a self-described “real jazzer,” was of like mind: Children have ears, and they’re people, and they can hear good music […]

One needn’t think too hard to come up with a list of celebrated children who seem somehow less exceptional when their baby fat comes off and their permanent teeth come in. We’ll eat Werner Herzog’s shoe if Alma Deutscher’s name is on it. When she was 11, conductor Johannes Wildner told the New York Times […]