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Show v COMPOSES MUSIC AT FIVE. REMARKABLE GIFTS OF A TENNESSEE TEN-NESSEE DOY. Melvin Hesselberg Writes Music and Stories Is Extremely Critical and Will Allow No Changes in His Works. Nashville. Twin A new cliihl wonder won-der him buun illscovciftl In tills city. Mulvyn IMounid Ht-iHulbiuB. " I" lust turning five )e.ir old. alioatly compoaea music uiul writes stories. llesselbeig Is a nuinu well known In i Nusiivlilo, for thu clilld'ss father Is IMoiiard HchbuIIioik, n muslrlnn ft hi i tornntlonul fnine. .Mr. liciisulbfjiK Is a itiisalan, a Kruiiduephuw of D.ivlilolT, the grout 'cellist. He, too, was precocious, for as a student In .Moscow he wns per tnltteil to appeal ut the famous Hill lintmoiilc conceits, being the only " dent thus houoietl When he Kfailu .tied he received ,i gold in l.il. the only one tenileietl to nnv member of his cl.tss. and petfoinieil l.l.st s fa tilting "D.iiise .Mucubte" before . tllfl iliiKlllslied audience HesHelberK then studied the piano with Utihlnsteln Mrs. Ilessoiben; also Is an artist nnd a writer, vvlto makes n specialty of children's stoiles lu the kindergarten kinder-garten foiin. I'nmi this artistic parentage II is easy to see where the youngster nets his talent I.lttle llosselbetg was liorn with melody in Ills mini. At the ago of three and one-hnlf years ho begnn humming; little melodies, which seemed to the musical ear of tho father fa-ther lo havo oilKliiiillty Ho iitiPH-tltmed iitiPH-tltmed the boy and asked where ho had heard them "I Just made It up," was the boyish answer. Thinking, the melody had meroly been an accidental hitting of notes that went well together, Mr. Hessel-betK Hessel-betK pnld no further attention until ho began observing that the hoy leiuum-bored leiuum-bored every nolo of each melody ns he sang it the Hist time, and that lie kept them nil separate uud distinct in mind anil uuver confused them ot an them together Then little IlesselbeiK started giving, giv-ing, names to his melodies. Kiom this time on, Melvyu has been "omposlng. He Is still ton vomit? to tead or vvilte, but he dictates the limes to his father. MUo all chlldien, he Is very critical, mil vvlll not allow a note of what he Invents lo be changed. Ills father hns fie fluently (xpeiimenled. anil purposely purpose-ly made alterations to see If .Melvvn would detect them. In every case the lestilt has been tho samo. The Iki has ptotested Instantly and compelled com-pelled the air to be played us he had first written It. Most of the melislles niu good ami show originality This could baldly i be otherwise, for Melvyn Is too young to have observed and studied the Ideas , of others, and thnt which he produces ' must necessarily como entirely from himself His stories aio produced In a similar manner He gets an Idea fur a tale, thinks It over nnd then dictates It to his mothoi Afterwaid she reatls It to him and he expi esses every satisfaction, satisfac-tion, piovlded It Is Identical with tho way ho llrst called It oh but hn al- MELVYN HESSELBERG. (Tennessee Child Who Composes Music and Stories.) ways (omplnlus If any change has been made All the faults of his Kngllsh ami tho immattitltv of his Ideas must bo retained, re-tained, foi his wonderful memory Is n veritable Sherlock Holmes ready to detect tho leant en or or tlecupllon. Melvyn does not look like a genius or a child phenomenon. There Is noth lug of the priggish, piecoclous child i wonder about him. Hu Is fat and healthy. In tact u famous boy beauty Ills beautiful fealurt'H and perfect complexion have nude him tho winner at numeioiis beauty shows held over the stale. At overy exhibit of prutty children he Ik Invariably Ihe winner Lately at the (if night state fair he tool; III si prlro lu a ffimpetlilnti against huudieils of t-hlldieu. |