There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.
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Academic investigations of prodigies go back at least 90 years.
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Beyond the cognitive similarities, many child prodigies have autistic relatives.
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Child prodigies rarely become adult geniuses who change the world.
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There seems nothing more melancholy than the fate of prodigies.
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Some prodigies are pushed; some do the pushing from within.
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These canine verbal prodigies are, however, few and far between.
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Tennis prodigies were once much more common in women's tennis.
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Tennis prodigies were once much more common in women's tennis.
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The math prodigies are set somewhat apart from the more general-capacity prodigies, being seemingly possessed of a weird bit of wiring more than an over-all enhanced capacity for learning to do things.
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Finally, both prodigies and autistic people have excellent eyes for detail.
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But the fantasy of creating bilingual prodigies immediately collided with reality.
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Having two basketball prodigies in the household was not always easy.
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"The Perfection" features Logan Browning and Allison Williams as cello prodigies.
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The movie's synopsis is admittedly opaque: Two cello prodigies reunite in Shanghai.
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Some are reproductive prodigies, having many children with more than one partner.
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But the history of teenage tennis prodigies is an age-old story.
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She has not treated Gold, but has worked with prodigies like her.
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Most people, including child prodigies apparently, lose the blind confidence of youth.
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That many of these kids, despite being outliers, have already been much documented suggests that we use mental prodigies the way Renaissance people used physical prodigies (the boy-wolf, the fish-woman): that is, to prove a moral point.
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Robotics prodigies, for example, may be given the opportunity to shadow university students.
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It's significant that we tend not to judge prodigies in sports too harshly.
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In the annals of composing prodigies, Korngold's only serious rival is Felix Mendelssohn .
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We often gravitate toward prodigies like Einstein because their expertise seems so effortless.
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And it has a unique history in the development of classical music prodigies.
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There are few canine prodigies with larger vocabularies, and they had intensive training.
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Future acoustic prodigies, I regrettably must inform you... your services will not be needed.
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In adulthood, many prodigies become experts in their fields and leaders in their organizations.
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Are prodigies a race apart, or are they merely more persistent than other kids?
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Despite enormous public interest in child prodigies, relatively little research exists around the phenomenon.
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What would have helped these boys and the other struggling prodigies in this book?
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But what if understanding prodigies would help us understand a seemingly unrelated condition, like autism?
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Prodigies, like many autistic people, have a nearly insatiable passion for their area of interest.
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This makes prodigies potentially important not just for talent research but also for autism research.
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Kai, one of Ellen Degeneres' prodigies, was on her show Tuesday after celebrating a birthday.
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Rojas-Berscia derides such theatrics as "monkey business," and dismisses prodigies who monetize their gifts.
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Guillou's prodigies have been favored over alumni of Lierse's own, storied youth system, he said.
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Davis is a rising superstar in the sport -- and is one of Floyd Mayweather's prodigies.
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OFF THE CHARTS: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies, by Ann Hulbert.
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Zinedine Zidane was one of many French prodigies who learned street football, or ballon sur bitume.
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The prodigies in Dr. Ruthsatz's 2012 study got high marks in this trait on the test.
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Rather, the prodigies may be people who were at risk of having this condition, yet don't.
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Then, more dramatically, there are the cautionary tales of onetime hoops prodigies such as Lenny Cooke.
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The job does not admit prodigies, and the best goalkeepers take years to reach their peak.
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In this sense, "there can be no true operatic prodigies," says Claudia Friedlander, a vocal coach.
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OFF THE CHARTS The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies By Ann Hulbert Illustrated.
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Two tennis prodigies faced off in a tournament for the first time in a historic match.
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Here's a recent take on how the Monegasque club has become a hub for soccer prodigies.
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Financial fair-play rules have turned the Monte Carlo club into a hub for soccer prodigies.
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She aims to "listen hard for the prodigies' side of the story," as she puts it.
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No. We do a disservice to the profession by giving this image of little geniuses and prodigies.
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These people aren't all math prodigies or fortune tellers, and you don't need to be one either.
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Prodigies could act as the "high risk" but unaffected group that could advance our understanding of autism.
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The meteoric rise of child prodigies almost always comes with a fall, but what happens after that?
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Soccer, more than many other team sports, welcomes young prodigies into the ranks of its adult players.
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In the 230s, Mr. Chandler was one of the most promising classical violin prodigies in New York.
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She has tried to "listen hard for the prodigies' side of the story," to her great credit.
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So Warner considers death while surrounding herself with a group of prodigies, including Raury, The Mind, Xavier Omar.
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The prep-to-pro generation of basketball prodigies of 1995 to 2005 and how they redefined the N.B.A.
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One sometimes thinks of prodigies as embodiments of peculiar genius, uncorrupted by convention, impossible to replicate or reëngineer.
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It has a team filled with bright promise and a growing reputation as the ideal place for prodigies.
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Successful young players stand out for another reason, too: bridge, unlike chess, has never been dominated by prodigies.
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As children, Nannerl and Mozart toured around Europe, performing in various royal courts as child prodigies, according to Biography.com.
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She signed both women to her label after discovering their videos, and they're often described as Queen Bey's prodigies.
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The prep-to-pro generation of basketball prodigies of 1995 to 2005 and how they redefined the N.B.A. 5.
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The Bolívars may no longer be a youth orchestra, but they play with the fervent blandness of child prodigies.
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Child prodigies generally avoid the limelight; those who do go public will endure relentless media attention throughout their childhood.
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For instance, very few chess prodigies reach Master or Grandmaster level—the rest must adapt to normal working life.
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ON TENNIS Tennis has long been known for its prodigies — and the cautionary tales that many of them tell.
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His children might not have turned out to be prodigies, but by Jesus he'd given them an ear for irony.
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There were no freshman prodigies expected to dazzle and then ditch college for the N.B.A. This was a throwback game.
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Last year, Steven Matz, another of the Mets' young pitching prodigies, missed many weeks with a tear of his lat.
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In "Off the Charts," Hulbert attempts to capture the complicated lives of child prodigies without descending into voyeurism or caricature.
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Interestingly, this is the same advice contemporary psychologists tend to give to all parents, not just the parents of prodigies.
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The best clubs often scour the world for young prodigies, recruiting the most promising athletes from all over the globe.
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In the 2012 study, half of the prodigies had an autistic relative at least as close as a niece or grandparent.
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In a 2015 study published in Human Heredity, Dr. Ruthsatz and her colleagues examined the DNA of prodigies and their families.
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Interestingly, some prodigies may actually do better when their eccentricities are seen by loving adults as disabilities first — and talents second.
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Kim is also the latest in a procession of prodigies to have won on the tour in the last 43 months.
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Like many teenage basketball prodigies from Europe, though, Ntilikina has found playing time hard to secure alongside more seasoned professional teammates.
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Ms. du Pré and Mr. Barenboim, both former child prodigies, were married in 1967, and they performed and recorded together extensively.
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Davis -- the reigning WBA super featherweight champ -- is a rising superstar in the sport and is one of Floyd Mayweather's prodigies.
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As one of his prodigies, Pep Guardiola, once articulated it: "Cruyff built the cathedral; our job is to maintain and renovate it."
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Historically, prodigies have been especially common in music with artists from Mozart to Michael Jackson making their mark on culture before puberty.
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She began playing at 2 and was one of the true wunderkinds in a sport whose history is rich in child prodigies.
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Attractively deep orange inside and out, dependably juicy, easy to grow and wildly prolific, these robust prodigies rule the market in their season.
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They are a set of three failed prodigies whose early brilliance in business, sport, and theater has been betrayed by their parents' divorce.
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The movie follows C.J. (Eden Duncan-Smith) and Sebastian (Dante Crichlow), two New York City high school science prodigies who invent time machines.
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They selected math prodigies when they were 12 or 13 and trained them to become software developers, online psychological warfare experts and hackers.
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Bestselling author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss has interviewed hundreds of ultra-successful people, from billionaires and professional athletes to chess prodigies, on his podcast.
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Then again, Mitsuko Uchida, a Japanese prodigy of an earlier vintage, is as sensitive a pianist as exists; prodigies are particulars first of all.
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These are hardly the tasks traditionally demanded of teenage soccer prodigies, but then PSV, the Dutch club, does not think of itself as traditional.
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Mr. Teicher and Mr. Tao are former teenage prodigies, now in their mid-20s, garnering much attention and acclaim as they mature in public.
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It may not be long till Rivals, citadel of the recruiting wars, ranks chess prospects, or forged visas are employed to recruit Danish chess prodigies.
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Best-selling author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss has interviewed hundreds of ultra-successful people, from billionaires and chess prodigies to professional athletes and movie stars.
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Another of Prince's prodigies of the era, drummer Sheila E, confirmed the death of her friend on Twitter: SADDEN my FRIEND IN CHRIST gone 2day.
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In a 2012 study led by one of us, Dr. Ruthsatz, all eight of the prodigies examined scored in the 99th percentile in this area.
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Professor David Feldman, a cognitive development expert at Tufts University, is one of few academics to devote his career to studying child prodigies and savants.
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Prodigies aren't typically autistic (unlike savants, in whom extraordinary abilities and autism often coincide), and they don't have the social or communication challenges that characterize autism.
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Perhaps prodigies have a very specific and unusual form of autism: They have many of the strengths associated with the condition, but few of the difficulties.
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But my mediocrity might be the most important part of this whole message — while these prodigies are inspiring and impressive, the everyday teen wants change too.
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As Jardim's team progressed deeper and deeper into the Champions League this season, the echoes of another team stuffed full of prodigies grew louder and louder.
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And if their children's grades too were not up to snuff, they could bribe coaches to accept them as fake tennis, soccer and water polo prodigies.
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At past Games, Chloe, Red, and their fellow teen snow-sports prodigies might have felt like untouchable superhumans, but at this year's outing, they're actually refreshingly relatable.
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There are a ton of little kids that may be prodigies, but until they grow up a little bit, you can't tell if they're professional-level potential.
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They know they're terrible, they know they're there for a good laugh and to learn a few tricks—not to advance as amateur prodigies of a craft.
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It follows a young man named David (portrayed by Akili McDowell) as he attempts to move up in the world by attending a school for young prodigies.
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"It's the first time in America cinema narrative where you have a country full of noncolonized black people that are all science prodigies and geniuses," she explained.
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Under the watchful eye of Blackwood's headmistress, Madame Duret (Uma Thurman), Kit and her schoolmates are revealed to be undiscovered prodigies of composing, painting, writing and calculating.
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Unlike many of the prodigies and women's champions of the last 25 years, she also has no fear of coming to net when the points matter most.
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It is difficult to forecast how relatively untested outsiders will fare in difficult elections, and few wealthy newcomers turn out to be political prodigies like Mr. Trump.
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The quietly elegant Ms. Scott, in a solo, maintained prodigies of balance on one leg while keeping her raised leg and other body parts in legato motion.
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He's part of a class of 24 male students, all of whom are being trained as prodigies in a variety of fields and raised by a mysterious headmaster.
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She unapologetically made the girls do many hours of homework a day, pushed them into becoming musical prodigies and allowed them next to no time to have fun.
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But, from a small sample of prodigies who have been tested by neurolinguists, responded to online surveys, or shared their experience in forums, a partial profile has emerged.
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Ann Hulbert, the author of "Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies," offered a reason for our enduring interest in this tragic narrative.
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Lee produced Bristol's expansion of his short film about two African-American science prodigies from Brooklyn who go back in time to stop a racially motivated police shooting.
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Many in her position would accept as much work as their schedules would bear, fearing the laws of gravity that can bring Hollywood prodigies abruptly back to earth.
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It is about raising children with schizophrenia and autistic children, prodigies and criminals, children with dwarfism or who are deaf, about bringing up trans boys and trans girls.
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That's because the world has long been fascinated by prodigies celebrated for their ability to master an instrument, graduate at a young age or achieve outstanding sports performances.
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Nearly 750 chess prodigies will flood the cafeteria and classrooms of Public School 13 in Chelsea this morning, sitting silently, shoulder to shoulder, at long rows of tables.
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A New Orleans pianist and a Havana-born percussionist, Mr. Crawford and Mr. Martinez are two former prodigies who hail from opposite sides of the Gulf of Mexico.
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I just wanted everybody to understand and know that we've been working at this for a very long time, and we're very focused young individual black Jamaican-American—prodigies.
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When she was 12, her mother took her to New York to study with Louis Persinger, who had taught the prodigies Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin in the 1930s.
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Like many siblings raised in the shadows of prodigies, Zumret thought it would just be easier if she stopped trying, or at least stopped looking as if she were.
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We have recruited a few thousand more employees worldwide, mostly high-end talents like young prodigies and fresh PhD graduates, to help patch our holes caused by the Entity List.
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In chess, it helped birth a new generation of prodigies like Magnus Carlsen who grew up playing AI opponents and used computer games as an essential part of their training routines.
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At 12, Curtis appears happy to devote his life to the piano, but I can't help but fixate on Feldman's warning that only about three percent of prodigies achieve adult success.
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The night kicked off with musical performances by Dana Williams and Gold Star Music and a dance choreographed by King for Haley Messick, Emma York and Brooklin Cooley, three young dance prodigies.
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Child prodigies are sought from a young age and recruited, according to Kim Heung-kwang, a North Korean defector who worked as a computer science professor in Pyongyang before escaping in 2004.
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And how many prodigies like Totti arrived at precisely the right moment in their country's sporting history—and as such neat canvases onto which a country's hopes and insecurities can be projected?
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Guy has even coached a couple of teen-age guitar prodigies: Christone (Kingfish) Ingram, who comes from the Delta, and Quinn Sullivan, who first performed onstage with Guy when he was seven.
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Your young prodigies are sure to make especially creative choices in their self-directed learning if they eat their almond butter and jelly sandwiches out of one of these bespoke boxes. $12,000.
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Unlike prodigies in tennis, like Tracy Austin, Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis, teenagers in squash do not turn pro, partly because there is not a financial incentive to do so.
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The same general pattern tends to hold true for music, another domain where the annals of young prodigies are filled with tales of eight hours of violin, and only violin, a day.
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See Maria Sharapova and Anna Kournikova, two blond Russian prodigies who arrived very young in the academy-rich ecosystem of South Florida and, against the odds, went on to fame and fortune.
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Check out these pics of Dennis Graham -- who was CRUSHING IT at Coachella this weekend ... not only hangin' with Manziel ... but also partying with Philadelphia 76ers prodigies Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid.
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The new Netflix film, arriving on May 17th, imagines two Brooklyn teen prodigies, CJ Walker and Sebastian Thomas, who build time machines to save CJ's brother, who was killed by a police officer.
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They found that the prodigies and their autistic relatives both seemed to have a genetic mutation or mutations on the short arm of Chromosome 1 that were not shared by their neurotypical relatives.
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His career trajectory, with its early triumphs and later ruptures, is an object lesson in the social realities faced by some former child prodigies, whose emotional development can be sacrificed to professional prowess.
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Among the headliners are the German house-music innovator Dixon; New York's own grown-up house-music prodigies the Martinez Brothers; and also from Germany, Recondite, who plays a sensual kind of techno.
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He glides with Kanye over a Mike Will Made-it beat ("Pussy Print), enlists Drake for a hook ("Back On Road"), and snags one of his most successful prodigies, Young Thug, for "Guwop Home.
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Credit...Alexis Armanet PRODIGIES FASCINATE: We are riveted by the 22004-year-old violinist ripping through Beethoven's "Kreutzer" sonata and the 22008-year-old Oxford University graduate breaking new ground in mathematical knot theory.
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With his mother's support, Yu had tried to ease up on his musical career and live a more normal life, an approach that had worked for other prodigies, including the child actress Shirley Temple.
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One of the most lively interlocutors is Ronnie Hawkins himself, who provides welcome candor and scruffy humor to his memories of the young prodigies he turned into a cohesive unit on the club circuit.
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CreditCreditAndrew Mangum for The New York Times SILVER SPRING, Md. — With forecasters expecting the unemployment rate to sink further this week, the chorus of complaints about worker shortages — from custodians to computer prodigies — has swelled.
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Chloe x Halle, the prodigies and Beyoncé proteges that have been tackling the entertainment industry from all fronts with recurring roles on grown-ish and debut album that is also nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
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Prodigies can be a pain, onscreen and off, and Elio—fevered with boyish uncertainties and thrills, though no longer a boy, and already rich in adult accomplishments, yet barely a man—should be an impossible role.
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A cohort of local prodigies routinely make headlines by winning international tournaments and some players such as 23-year-old Dinara Saduakassova - the highest-ranked among Kazakh women - are gaining broader prominence outside of the game.
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As North Korea devoted more resources to those efforts — eventually selecting child math prodigies for training and assembling an army of more than 6,000 — it established a large outpost for its secretive hacking unit in China.
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I used to think those kind of people were up there with the natural blondes and piano prodigies — people who were just different (better?) than people like me, and who possessed skills that could not be taught.
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For her fictional peers — a pianist, a violinist and a composer, musical prodigies who came of age when the country found itself at the height of a dark, juvenile madness — the instrument dictated life and, sometimes, death.
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A 2018 investigation by The New York Times revealed that Jimmy A. Williams, a top trainer of show-jumping prodigies who died in 1993, had abused many of the children he taught over his 50-year career.
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Many of them were child prodigies (Mozart being one of the best-known examples), who were mercilessly pushed to perform; most were plagued by money troubles and ill health throughout their lives; and few enjoyed satisfactory personal relationships.
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That show took plenty of its jokes from Van Der Beek's career as a '90s teen icon on Dawson's Creek and the inherent idiocy of rich teen prodigies, and it appears he's reusing many of those bits here.
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At just 22, Mr. Alexander is already well on his way toward transcending the classic problem of jazz prodigies: He's not just remarkably capable for his age; he's a deeply thoughtful soloist and a lush chordal colorist, period.
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When he finally made his name in 2016 as one of UK music's most intriguing young prodigies, it wasn't for the piano; it was for candid freestyles that explored vulnerabilities that would make most other London MCs feel uneasy.
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It was his choice of clothes, a red leather jacket, nodding to the famous suit in "Delirious," the breakthrough special of Eddie Murphy, then in his early 20s, perhaps the most spectacularly successful of all the stand-up prodigies.
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GLASGOW (Reuters) - Adam Peaty and Kliment Kolesnikov made it a landmark night at the inaugural multi-sport European Championships when the two swimming prodigies broke world records to strike gold in the space of just over an hour on Saturday.
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It can be tempting to believe that change-makers whose work affects generations must be extraordinary prodigies; that each one has a remarkable "a-ha" moment when a brainstorm is suddenly transmuted into a single, brilliant idea, obvious in its genius.
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The temple is run by what may be some of the most highly educated monks in the world: nuclear physicists, math prodigies and computer programmers who gave up lives steeped in precision to explore the ambiguities of the spiritual realm.
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Even without a breakthrough by Raonic or a handful of other next-generation ordained prodigies, the men's game — driven by a familiar and popular narrative for the better part of a decade — has felt the ground shift, though not yet seismically.
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But one notable difference separates Weijland from the club's other young prodigies: While the players assigned the jersey numbers above and below Weijland's No. 39 are paid by Ajax to use their feet, he is compensated for using his thumbs.
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In his new book, Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living, Ricky Jay, the illusionist and actor who lent his collections to the Met show, situates Buchinger in the tradition of conjurers, disabled prodigies, and remarkable writers who provided popular entertainment.
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Worse, when two counter fighters or defensive prodigies are matched the bout will inevitably become one in which no one wants to push the action, and any point scored or lead taken is desperately clung to until the round ends.
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Heavy metal is rife with its shoulda-beens and coulda-beens: bands fucked from the start; bands cut short in their prime; bands who, like precocious childhood prodigies, blossomed early only to fade into embarrassing ignominy when puberty cast its gawky spell.
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With "Stranger Things," Matt and Ross Duffer have made something you might imagine coming from child prodigies who grew up in an abandoned Blockbuster full of VHS tapes, a monster sewn from pieces of Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Wes Craven and more.
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One evening in 1999, when the girls were just toddlers, Francois became transfixed by a broadcast of the French Open featuring the American prodigies Venus and Serena Williams, then 18 and 17, who teamed up to win the doubles title that year.
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When Hough was 13, his parents, who were divorcing, made the tough decision to send the two ballroom-dance prodigies to the prestigious London dance school Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, forcing them to leave their three older sisters and sheltered Utah life behind.
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Bring on the brats: Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow and Luke Wilson tap into their petulant sides to play grown-up prodigies — a financial whiz, an award-winning playwright and a tennis champion — whose estranged father wants to weasel his way back into the fold.
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In " Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies " (Knopf), Ann Hulbert seems to be taking up the opposite end of the child-rearing stick; rather than ordinary kids with ordinary parents, these are the outliers, right here in America.
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Such was the fate of the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who began his career, in Vienna, as one of the most astonishing child prodigies in musical history and who reached maximum fame writing film scores, in Los Angeles, in the nineteen-thirties and forties.
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Lawrence and Fields are considered prodigies at the position and while there is immense pressure to take over the reigns at their respective programs, both are afforded the luxury of being on two of the most talented teams in the nation that should be repeat playoff participants.
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Try not to look too far into the future Ann Hulbert, author of "Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Prodigies," advises parents to be aware of the difference between supporting gifted children to create their own story and writing their story for them.
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While last year could have been dubbed the Year of the Freshman (as Kentucky and Duke, among others, owed their deep tournament runs to the play of teenage prodigies), this year's top teams have relied on players with a few more years of experience to prolong their seasons.
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And had those users not valued the serendipitous reconnections with high school boyfriends, the ego strokes from bragging about their expensive vacations and their little child prodigies and a public forum in which to harangue their elected officials, they would not have put their private information out there.
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"This is one of the stories that people used to tell in Buczacz in the time when Buczacz was full of Torah study and all of its sons were surrounded by Torah," Agnon concludes, harking back to an idyllic past in which even manual laborers were religious prodigies.
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Cooking show judges, prize-winning chefs, their most promising prodigies ... I had, before my eyes, the darlings of French cuisine getting trashed, drinking beer out of motorcycle helmets, and attempting Jackass-inspired hijinks that only seem like a good idea when you've got eight grams of alcohol in your blood.
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The book explores how families who consider themselves "normal" respond to children with a variety of differences or disabilities: families of people with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome and autism; families of prodigies; those bringing up children conceived in rape; those whose children have committed crimes; and others with transgender children.
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In the same way that tennis prodigies are somehow able to get extra spin and power on the ball from their first days on a court, Maxine could make the fly come off the tip of her rod with a zip and efficiency that young casters rarely have, her father said.
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"It's people who have money, people who are, like, prodigies and stuff, [who] end up there," one Hispanic student who was ranked eighth in her class, but decided to go to a woman's college with a lower graduation rate for Hispanic students and fewer resources than U.T.-Austin, tells Satija and Watkins.
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Known as the West Coast Get Down, this corps of prodigies has been playing together since their early high school years, developing a near-telepathic musical bond that left patrons of LA jazz clubs, audiences at City Hall, and even residents at local senior citizen homes speechless for well over a decade.
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"He probably doesn't practise as much now, given the job that he is in, but he gets the club on a beautiful plane coming down," said Leadbetter, who has worked with former world number ones Nick Faldo, Nick Price and Ernie Els, and both Michelle Wie and Lydia Ko when they were teen prodigies.
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In his freshman season alone, he was cast to appear on scores of runways in the major fashion capitals — Gucci to Dior Homme — and he was one of four token men in Karl Lagerfeld's brasserie-themed fall 2015 Chanel show, where he appeared alongside the Instagram prodigies Cara Delevingne (25.4 million — yes, million — followers, and counting) and Kendall Jenner (46.5 million, but you knew that).
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The book takes us from William James Sidis and Norbert Wiener, Jewish prodigies at Harvard at the beginning of the twentieth century (Sidis was the subject of a profile by James Thurber, of all people, in these pages), to their seeming successors in Silicon Valley, the hero-nerds who have become as much an American typology as the enfants sauvages of France ever were.
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At the bottom end of the Eastern Conference, under the new father-son management team of Jerry and Bryan Colangelo, the 276ers now have a presumed choice of one-and-done prodigies, Ben Simmons of Louisiana State or Duke's Brandon Ingram, with their first pick, though both would add more inexperience to a team that has mainlined it in recent seasons to the point of overdose.
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Among the cultural prodigies who arose after the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh's "hop" from New York to Paris in 20183 — hence the dance's name — Ms. Miller, known as the "Queen of Swing," was the youngest recruit and last survivor of the original Lindy Hoppers, the Herbert White troupe that broke in at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom and popularized the Lindy Hop in Broadway shows, on tours of Europe and Latin America, and in Hollywood films.
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Ms. Krauss got her professional start in her midteens, which isn't unheard-of in a bluegrass world that nurtures its prodigies, and has since alternated between solo albums and band projects with Union Station, an immaculate luxury model of a string band featuring the dobro player Jerry Douglas, the singer-guitarist Dan Tyminski, the banjo and guitar player Ron Block and the bassist Barry Bales, and occasional detours like the one with Mr. Plant, which picked up five Grammys.
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