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Show A DUAL MINC-. Peculiar and Useful Gift of a Young SluaV cian of Pittsburg, An extraordinary illustration of the iual working cf the mind is to be found in a young musician of Pittsburg. Oscar Os-car Radin is about 19 years old. He is possessed of wonderful musical ability, especially in the arrangement of orchestral orches-tral scores. He has scored some difficult high class musio for certain well known musicians to their perfect satisfaction and wonderment for as yet this youth is but a novice in musical work, having only recently completed his course of 6tndy under a local musician. But ability abil-ity to arrange orchestral scores well is something that cannot be imparted to a person by any amount of teaching, but must be born in a man, and Radin certainly cer-tainly has this gift Like all men of genius, Radin must live, and to live requires re-quires money. In lieu of anything better bet-ter the young musician took a place as pianist in a dancing academy. Between the times' when he is employed in playing play-ing for lessons he devotes his attention to arranging. " Radin is a most studious individual, and when his time is not occupied in this way he seeks to increase his knowledge knowl-edge by reading. Of course most of his time is taken by playing the piano, but this does not interfere with his study in the least He plays the musio for danoers, taking the signal to start and Btop unconsciously from the professor, never even glancing up from the book on the music rack in which he may be absorbed. Ho reads away, apparently undisturbed by having to play or by the flitting forms oa the floor. And the books he reads are not the sort which could be read lightly. Histories, books of travel and books on philosophy are read with equal ease while he is playing. play-ing. His playing is in perfect time, and his memory of what he reads is extraordinary. extraor-dinary. Here is an instance of unoon-scious unoon-scious cerebration or the duality of mind In which the double work is well done and without endeavor.- Pittsburg Dispatch. |