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8-YEAR GIRL STARTLES NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Nov. 15. An eight-year-old girl who had not' wasted her youth, to-day was lifted from tho rank of children piano players and placed among the top flight of concert pianists. She made her debut last night, at the Town Hall and created a sensation. Critics hailed her as a genius. The child, Ruth Slencynski, faced a lull-sized concert grand that was so large in comparison to her height, she had to sit on the edge of the bench to manipulate the pedals. She was as assured as a veteran virtuoso, and played a programme made up of. compositions of Bach, Beethoven, . Mendelssohn and Hopkin, many of which highly-skilled adult pianists have never mastered. By the time she had played her opening number, Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, she had her audience cheering. Ruth is the daughter of Joseph Slenczynski, a, violinist, who was her only teacher. He was assisted occasionally with the advice of Alfred Cortot, French pianist and composer. She was bom in Sacramento, California.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 10
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175INFANT VIRTUOSO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 10
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