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Show Another Infant Prodigy, ; Master Max Hambourg is a young Russian from Moscow, where his father Aolds a post on the professorial staff of the university. Although it is stated that he only began to study the piano two and a half years ago, ho already, at 10 years of age, gives evidence of what is of more importance than a phenomenal phenome-nal technique considerable musical in-gtinct. in-gtinct. He does not play with the me-ihanical me-ihanical accuracy of a musical box, or the strict tempo of a metronome. He seems to have a conception of his own as to how things should be played, and in working it out is, like Rubinstein, quite prodigal of wrong notes. We are informed in-formed that Max Hambourg's studies will be superintended in future by M. Paderewski. No kinder wish can be expressed ex-pressed with regard to his future than that for the next eight or ten years he aay realize the ideal of Athenian womanhood wom-anhood as described by Pericles, and be as little seen or heard of as possible. Pari Letter. |