THE BABY PIANIST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 6

THE BABY PIANIST.

Pilar Osorio, the baby .pianist who plays Beethoven, Mondelssolin and Mozart, at throe years old, and has already made a musical reputation in Berb'n, her native city, made her debut k. London last month. Dressed in a black velvet frock and laoo; collar, and playing with a largo white Teddy boar, in the Bluthner Hall, Wigmoro Street, the little girl had nothing of the precociousness of the ordinary infant prodigy in her appearance. Her brown curb were tied with a pretty"pink ribbon, and her ovon, da.rlc ejes, a.heritage from her 'Spanish mother, sparkled with childish

■.pleasure. The little pirl; prattles in Spanidi' and German,, the latter. bfeing, the '• language of-her father,,a:German doctor.at Chariot■tonburg.' Papite Arriolaythe boy pianist who has been hailed fas a '■'reincarnation ; of .Mozart,"is .her half-brother; and was one of the audience who listened to the baby pianist's .performance. At a signal' from her mother the little girl left her Teddy-bear, and toddled; to the piano. ■ She has an extraordinary ear for. music; and her baby hands flitted across the piano with amazing rapidity." With: her , eyes fixed on ■ the instrument she played : through Mendelssohn's^ ; "Spring Song," Haydn's Gipsy Sondo, and theConcertetnck of Espinoza. The signing of her photograph proved a more formidable task to tho child than playing the "Spring Song" from beginning to end, for die has aalyi last JjOgßJj tO Iffltftt ikSf "■''.. ■•'.' ' .•■'■' '