MISCHEL UNKNOWN

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1915, Page 8

MISCHEL UNKNOWN

"Misehol Gl)emi:«vf;!;.y !»-day is reco&frrised as being amov^t the three greatest 'Cellisi;M'nth: 3 world. ,He ■jgsr'Rs born in Otlm-.i, R-'issia, in 1895, gave e-arJy n;:lir ttiojis of coming ••::||ifcalent. It la mid that at the ago ot Pfeix lio ;vns tak-en by fiia father to hoar 4a. great Rusj.inn 'cv:*llinb named W-Rr»----%ilowitz, and wan no moved by;the sad■tlsrweet melody (>h<ii'. be t>egan to cry> . beseeching bi;> father to 'ifouy him a 'cello, v>.ii ( }_ teach liirn to *jtry and play "tij^ .'jj.:r:e wonderful music." At fii'Kf, (-,} jo father laughed/ iand said that "only wmeone very Iclever could play t-li'? 'oe-ilo." How--ever, the boy so iifljv.r.i've-d' that at Jawfe Ja 'cello was" houschb for him. Some '•/tveeks and moil'!;.'; w?nt on, iind th© ifather. was weli p.?pai(i by the eager tli*» boy gn-r& to his fipfc Jmusic lessons. After i brief period jDr home practisri:;: v r/:th his father flVfisahel iras sen! f -»';-:];/ ny^^v Pro<fc£scr Popper, o!" !>uj»j>'£.-t. '.Hero l:e'

remained for one year, and was then ■made very proud by his teacher telling him: "1 have nothing more to teach you." Mischel completed his studies under Herbert Walenn, of London. '