As if in accordance with some official proclamation, last week was prodigy week in the music news.
In Boston, Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma opened his Symphony Hall program with a skilfully contrived theme and variations by his pupil, 10-year-old Susan ("Chiqui") Godoy.
In Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors—Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini.
The four other newsworthy children were Californians:
Ruth Slenczynski, 6-year-old pianist from Sacramento, fairly astounded sophisticated...
