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50 THE: MUSIC TRADE: REA/IEW COMPOSES MUSIC AT SEVEN. SIGNS UP WITH THE WITMARKS. blackbird sitting high up in a tree near the band stand accompanied the instruments and stopped Prodigy in France Surprises Professors by His Frederic Peters Signs Exclusive Contract with when they did. Genius. That House—Some of His Works. He sang during the whole movement—beauti- A dispatch from Paris to ful, leisurely snatches of melody. His notes states that a seven-year-old boy of Rennes has Frederic Peters, the gifted composer and late seemed like an instrument added to the band and such extraordinary musical genius that he is said orchestral conductor at the Studebaker Theater, quite equaled in quality any of the wood winds. to compose beautiful and original music with as- , on his return to the city recently, signed "I he way in which his extempore melody fitted tonishing facility and speed. Among the works in with Beethoven's composition was perfectly of the boy, whose name is Rene Guillou, are sym- marvelous. phonies, sonatas, melodies, fugues, and duos for All through that summer the heat in Paris was piano and violin, all of which have provoked the terrific. Often every day 1 had occasion to pass admiration of the professors of the Conservatoire. along a torpid old street in the Latin Quarter, Scientists are much interested in this case of near which 1 lived, the Street of the Four Winds abnormal precocity. Young Guillou plays the —a narrow thoroughfare, lined by high white- piano perfectly, but his chief ability seems to be painted houses above which could be seen a mere that of composing. His ability appears to have ribbon of dark blue sky. developed suddenly one day after the child had In this street a cobbler, an ex-bugler in a heard a military band play Chopin's funeral cuirassier regiment, had his booth. About tin* march. booth hung a large wicker cage in which was a On returning home, although he had never blackbird with a tremendous voice—a "hundred- touched a musical instrument, he is said to have throated" bird, to borrow the adjective with which gone to the piano and played the march quite cor- Tennyson qualifies the nightingale. rectly. Rene Guillou is the son of a postoffice The ex-bugler had taught his merle (the French employe. work for a blackbird) a cavalry call, and many times a day the street reverberated with the blood- stirring sounds. One broiling day in July an old abbe stopped in front of the cobbler's stall and be- gan to mop his crimson face. "Monsieur," he said to the cobbler, "accept my congratulations; your merle is the most eloquent preacher in Paris, for his notes are a battle call to the strong and a sursuw corda (lift up your hearts) to the despair- ing."

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