Vanessa Mae’s music career may have started when she was only 13-years-old, but she’s been skiing since she was 4. The 35-year-old violinist may have sold more than 10 million records in her music career, but that will have no bearing when she competes at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Wednesday.
In the early 1990’s, three psychologists called on the Universität der Künste in West Berlin, Germany to study violinists. The psychologists asked a music teacher which of the violinists were most likely to have professional careers. The scientists separated that group out as the elite players. For comparison they also selected a group of students from […]