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Show from Fri Jul 18 00:03:31 CDT 2008

Piano Prodigy's Mantra: Practice Makes Perfect

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Marc Yu, a 9-year-old musical prodigy, began learning the piano at age 2 and was playing Beethoven by 3. He says he practices up to eight hours a day. "You don't want a Beethoven piece to sound like somebody else," he says. "That's disrespectful to the composer."