Music: Prodigy & Others

For $75,000 10-year-old Ruth Slenczynski will give 30 U. S. concerts this season. Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is so big that the only adult pianists who will play there this month are Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari.

The amazing prodigy appeared in a white dress...

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