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Prodigy in France Surprises Professors by His Frederic Peters Signs Exclusive Contract with
Genius.
That House—Some of His Works.
A dispatch from Paris to the New York Times
Frederic Peters, the gifted composer and late
states that a seven-year-old boy of Rennes has
orchestral conductor at the Studebaker Theater,
such extraordinary musical genius that he is said
Chicago, on his return to the city recently, signed
to compose beautiful and original music with as-
tonishing facility and speed. Among the works
of the boy, whose name is Rene Guillou, are sym-
phonies, sonatas, melodies, fugues, and duos for
piano and violin, all of which have provoked the
admiration of the professors of the Conservatoire.
Scientists are much interested in this case of
abnormal precocity. Young Guillou plays the
piano perfectly, but his chief ability seems to be
that of composing. His ability appears to have
developed suddenly one day after the child had
heard a military band play Chopin's funeral
march.
On returning home, although he had never
touched a musical instrument, he is said to have
gone to the piano and played the march quite cor-
rectly. Rene Guillou is the son of a postoffice
employe.
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a contract with M. Witmark & Sons by the terms
of which he will write exclusively for that firm
for a number of years.
Mr. Peters will be best remembered for his score
of the "Mayor of Tokio," the popular musical
comedy in which Richard Carle starred with much
success. Prominent among other meritorious
works from his pen may be mentioned "The Monks
of Mallabar," the Japanese operetta "Otoyo" and
a new musical piece entitled "A Winning Miss,"
which enjoyed an extended run in Chicago and the
Middle West.
Mr. Peters is a graduate of the Conservatory of
Music at Leipsic and a musician of undoubted
skill. A new score from this composer's pen is
set down for an early production, and those who
have heard it declare it to be the best he has yet
written.
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Various Instruments with Startling Accuracy.
blackbird sitting high up in a tree near the band
stand accompanied the instruments and stopped
when they did.
He sang during the whole movement—beauti-
ful, leisurely snatches of melody. His notes
seemed like an instrument added to the band and
quite equaled in quality any of the wood winds.
"I he way in which his extempore melody fitted
in with Beethoven's composition was perfectly
marvelous.
All through that summer the heat in Paris was
terrific. Often every day 1 had occasion to pass
along a torpid old street in the Latin Quarter,
near which 1 lived, the Street of the Four Winds
—a narrow thoroughfare, lined by high white-
painted houses above which could be seen a mere
ribbon of dark blue sky.
In this street a cobbler, an ex-bugler in a
cuirassier regiment, had his booth. About tin*
booth hung a large wicker cage in which was a
blackbird with a tremendous voice—a "hundred-
throated" bird, to borrow the adjective with which
Tennyson qualifies the nightingale.
The ex-bugler had taught his merle (the French
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."
NEW STAR IN "PEGGY."
Audrey Maple, the accomplished singer and
actress, last seen in this city in the production of
"The Arcadians," joined the cast of "Peggy," the
London Gaiety Theater success now playing at the
Casino Theater, and is appearing in* the title part.
She sings the several songs allo'.ted to Peggy in
a delightful manner that adds much to their ef-
fectiveness.
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One April while studying bird voices in a wood
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whistler, who produced again and again part of
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Two summers ago a blackbird that patrolled a
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place, Edinburgh, whistled a part (over a dozen
notes) of a five-finger exercise for the piano,
which he had without doubt picked up from some
player in one of the neighboring houses. Some
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years ago, in the month of June, I attended a con-
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