Show COMPOSES MUSIC AT FIVE remarkable GIFTS OF A TEN BOY 1 melvin hesselberg write music and stories Is ext emely critical and will allow no changes in his works nashville tenn A new child won der has been discovered in this city melvyn edouard hesselberg who Is just turning five years old already composes music rand writes stories hesselberg is a name well known in nashville tor the child s father Is edouard hesselberg a musician of in tame mr hesselberg Is a russian a grandnephew of davidoff the great cellist he took was precocious for as a student in moscow he was per to appear at the famous phil harmonic concerts being the only stu dent thus honored when he bradu cited he received a gold medal the only one tendered to any member of his class and performed fa inous danse macabre before a dia audience then studied the piano with mrs hesselberg Hese elberg also Is an artist and a writer who maats a specialty ot children s stories in the kindergarten form from this artistic parentage it Is easy to see where the youngster gets his talent little hesselberg was born with melody in his soul at the age of three and one halt years he began humming little melodies which seemed to the musical ear ot the ta ther to have originality he questioned the boy and asked he had heard them I 1 just made it up was the boylso answer thinking the melody had merely been an accidental hitting ot notes that went well tog eaber mr hessel berg paid no further attention until he began observing that the boy kemem every note of ewh melody as he sang it the first time 3 that he kept them all separate and distinct in mind and never confused thein or ran them together then little hesselberg started gly ing names to his melodies from this time on melvyn has been composing om posing he Is still too young to read or write but he dictates the tunes to his father all children he Is very ind will not allow a note of what tie invents to be changed his father has frequently experimented and purpose made alterations to see ac melvyn would detect them in every case the result has been the same the boy atas protested instantly and corn belled the air to be played as he had arst written it most of the melodies are good and chow originality this could hardly be far melvea te reaal observed and the ot others etl that he produce must necessarily come roia his stories are produced in a similar manner he gets an idea for a tale thinks it over and then dictates it to his mother afterward she reads atto him and he expresses every alon provided it Is identical with the way he first called it off but he a MELVYN HESSEL bEKO tennessee child who music and sterje waya it any change been made all the faults 01 b english the immaturity of his ideal bat be re talked tor his wua gerful memi v 13 a veritable sherlock ready t detect aba least aror or deception melvyn does not look like a or a child phenomenon Is noth ing of the priggish js wonder about him he Is tat aal healthy in fact a famous bo beauta his beautiful features and complexion hav e made him the winner at numerous beauty shows held ove the state at every exhibit of pretty children he Is invariably the winner lately at the georgia state fair hf took first prize in a competition against hundreds ot children |