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Show Blind Tom. This musical wondert appears to-morrow night. Ho is one of the most exceptional prodigies of this or any other age, lor while his intellect, in-tellect, it is understood, is far below the average, ho possesses, as if by intuition, intui-tion, tho keenest perception and the very highest powers of tho most elevated ele-vated faoultics, whoro music is involved. in-volved. It is reported of him that, while a comparative child, ho, for the first timo, heard a piano on which a lady had been playing, ond, icuoraut in every decree of tho very simplest rudiments of music, stole into the apartment whoro tho instrument was and repeated tho musio ho had jus heard played. His repertoiro is said to consist of over five thousand pieces, and ho plays any composition, no matter mat-ter how difficult, that maybe played in his hearing. There is no doubt a crowded house will assemble to see and hear bliod Tom, tho colored musical wonder, who has startled and bewildered bewil-dered the musical critics of both hemispheres. |
