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Show Musical Prodigies. The accounts of Master Danowakl, who at the mature age of S hns been conducting conduct-ing a full orchestra at Bournemouth in a military march of his own composition, casually remarked afterward that he had written It several years ago, "when ho was quite young," suggests a question which Is worthy of more attontlon than It has received. Why are genuine musical prodigies comparatively common, whereas where-as In other branches of art they aro practically prac-tically nonexistent? We say "genuine" becauso It Is undoubtedly the case that while of coura6 not every precocious musician musi-cian la heard of In maturcr life, nearly every great musician has In his timo been a prodigy. One need only instance Mozart, Schubert. Haydn. Chopin, and among executants of today Joachim and Nor-man-Ncruda, to realize that this Is bo. Have psychologists explained why the genius of music should and does awake In tho soul years before that of painting and tho allied arts? London Chronicle. |