| Show POOR BLIND TOM Inside Facts About tile World Famous Colored Musical Mu-sical Prodigy tCooyriihl IM by the Author 1 tn 1110 heading of the firrt chapter of David Uopptrfltld Dlckinn makM the htro gar I am born And ao It may Int mid nf Thnmaa Wlgglno vvTY much better known aa lllinl Tm that fit I Ilkownw wan born furlh rir ra that Itto was torn In Ioluml u > < i i about M yrara ago and moitutcr that Ire Was b > im a Steve and that hli Owner was leneral Jamet litlhuno a gentleman of lilt old arhnol of hnl It may 11 I raid with trulh In a free Paraphrase lit the Duke Aranta foreman line In Tobin To-bin itnat play that t lit no > ir laid life hand on n colored person save In tin way of kindness Uentral liothusimiji daiighler liam Oven lo this day Tom lm I to talk about am Mine Susan wi a fairly need Pianist when Tom wan 10 years old and whenever she pinyrd on the I piano Mill Ullnd Tom who Is I now a worry big Illlnl Tom vinuld ill near enJoying en-Joying tit music on day Silos Hunan was mitcli ul1l1ll11l at itndlng the little boy porchoil up Oil Iht plan tool and giving the met evidence of lilt 1 marvel out musical Rnlui Jtofilt may Iw lurprlatxl lo learn that Tom Iou had a teacher 1 but It would lit till more urprlnlmt I If he had not had ont In fact It would I of course top Im potalMo for a Ulml man to play mule That lots had not heard and mtmorla stood to ol hear U properly Mere1 i U ibo i-bo ptaye I by an artist Naturally truth illmcult number na are Inclujisl InTo in-To rtp < rlory need lo Iw heard very 1 Often In be momorlatd Therefor forM for-M Years did Tom have the advantage of Uw careful ami art let It tuition ami training of Irofrnor Joseph Ioanamkl n thorough tniiilrlin and n brilliant ttanltl who la I at Sweetmeat the organist of Mt IAOd church Now York city Attar the tloll war Sir 1 John O lltlhunt an of Otneral Uethune had charge 1 of Tom and Cor rive monlhi I In every year It whn I 14 aM Tom rwltil In New York did Ventilator mikl reveal to Tom Hit woiki > f the Street potatoes t Thus It was thAt Tom repertory cam to In olult In fallowing numutn Cuncertoi Rublnattln fourth In D minor lien I welL r minor iiilwv n K nit Won dalMolin H minor and II minor Chopin K and V I Un4 r Iroftraor l < aanankra guldanr nod tuition Tom alao learned to ult Tlialbtrgi fantaiy Rllalrv Amoro ilaaaonlello i Don laniual and Jmnambula Uaala nigolgiu I i Vanlail Ilimgrol Uldiummrr I Night Draw ami 1 covered rhmpPeUivoi Uublnettln llaladl In IV vriiiad Rune llarcuroll lavuii and al Vaprlel Chopin In I represented In I Toms repertory by Pantailt Irn I promptu llnllaj in 0 Minor Hi hi ria In II Mat Minor call aevtnil wallinI and Minatlaaohn by I tionm With MII Wurd III Hondo Capri I cloAn An regard Tonsil nblllly an a mm 11 er It I u I beyond qumllon but of one hill many wcemrlclllt II fit that he do i I not like his name In 1 appear when his i i mulc I li I Irfo 1 Pultv published Two of Tom c im l Imillnll taken down for him and pub lloh d under the supervision of Pro tensile Ionaikl are Welllnklangt Voice nf 1 the Wave 1 n brilliant con rl Unlit puhllhr I hy I Tom rquPt un ler I sh an or Ir eOr 8 mill It nnnio Innld by him am Tlmpnil lalop which Tom tneloted Ihould ap toiler ni the work of Professor Kay nIII I Th blind planlet also rom poned I Mary Hampllan u polka still an 1 Imitation of a aowlng mat nine He like WIn arranged eovenl I planlatlon negro I rellgloui aong with extellent harmon leg In the accompaniment Tom wrote the word ai well ni the muilc of n numlitr of quaint and run 8001 tongi In which very 1 touching put ho and very great nonaenia are strangely lnltnnlnglo1 Th muilr of theme long l Is irllttlr with correct liar monlra but tile name of tome of them ar Patroller One bear the title Thr Man Wllh a Cinder In Ilia Kye and atot la I cnlle1 Molher Wilt Thou Come Knol Cure Moro It WM with great dim utiy and after a great deal nf nrgn lent nnd entreaty Ihnt Tomi consent 10 Publish The Italnalorm under hll town name wa Attained In thin fu I moui composition an Initiative deerlp live plnno solo Tom allows how ho Ivan Impinged by the vnlrea 1 of nature how thoroughly he appreciate the > netle lemon taught by I the pattering raindrop rain-drop and the whltperlng or the This ttlng wind Atoll how with n mauler and he ran Interpret these < tlle thought on hit Uloved piano To 10 Tom Ink nno of hli towns from 1rofeoor oinanekl Ii n prhllegt MI apmnletl to many but the writer ties Sears among the favored few When prorIpper 1ntnnnkl lolled lilmttlf at the piano and 1 struck the first note of Ileethoveni Cenrerln In I Slide Tom plead near rubbing hip hand together In gleeful anticipation of the root I In Hero for him but when the beauty nf lleeilmieni great work wits br after liar revenM tn the blind negro plnlt Tom PbA nn till left leg 1 rubbing the kneo of thin with his tight I font A n1 I never coleslaw to run his hand together In the et Mapy nf Soon I enjoyment enjoy-ment or the music Bometlme Tom would elrlde all alive the room tx claiming no lie walked I oh Iletthoten I Oh Mitt Rupert When Turn took hit neat nt the piano Irofettor IVunanikl hnlng again per Formed the opening Sales of the concerto erto nf count he did not flay etartly right enHie first trial and an Tom In I very tienoii and In I morbidly iwntlllv still rnnnot boar I direct criticism Poi nnnkl wan obliged to um n good 1 deal I of delicate diplomacy for example after Tom hail 116Y1 A Very difficult imeaage Poananikl raid Why TOPI I am surprised at you Why an Irr i replied Tom about whom lot It lit noted hem en Piedmont that he tptuka with I perfect corrMtneei I am Burt riollit continued Vninan S kl that you rotor this IUHMV e AN you do It IIHlhon were hero he rnul 1 Pars Vitro graelou roodntte that cant IM the Street Iht relebrnte artist Illlml Tom lit woull know boll r thar Id Silly title paoaag In thl wayher Iiinanikl played It 1 as Tom had laye < l hut he would know that It 1 ihoul lat Interpreted title way Here Im nnnikl Played II mrreelly Then loom nanekl Added Why Tom Ileothovei WM not Htlifletl with film own oecu lien of this paifogt till he had played II 1C timews I All tight profooser teplle1 Tom who at one Pat to work or rather 10 I play and executed the paeaag oiaclly II 1 lime On when Tom wa nn n ro nrerl lour file manairtr Mr Ilethuno tn Based Ian artist tn play for Tom n pier that IIr nthune wished tn ad I to Iho repertory When till Apt lOll 1114 temper on owes orcailon and Paid lo Tom Oh ronfouml It you played Ihnt wrong Tom struck not the piano lut She planlil who went down an though Pltulmmnn had informed n mottos 1 on his Mia pleiu The Professor rnlgned Site poaltlen remarking that he illl not like la I bo knocked down by I a blind dork Here It 1 may bo proper to State tint although Tom Ii I blind ho CAn ie an object In front nf him without being able however to tlliilngulih whelhtr I she object li I a cow a man or a gunboat gun-boat After the death nf Mr John 0 I I Ilelbune Turn fell under She I manage wheat of Mr Ierche who married Mr Btthunta willow They all Including Tom live during the summer nt the Highland of Navettnk N J and tire big black object that la I soon every day bobbing up and down In the nail ten wave Split I hli gtnlui a music I necromancer necro-mancer and In him lnalo Fair n negro man whose unions In I Thoma Wlnglna mown to everybody In general unit tn music lower In purlloular of Ullnd Tom UANIHI OTTOIKNQUI |
