HAYDN BECK, THE BRILLIANT CHILD VIOLINIST..

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 5 September 1908, Page 4

HAYDN BECK, THE BRILLIANT CHILD VIOLINIST..

A WRONG IMPRESSION. Inthe course of .a conversation with • \ i VBeck> y°ung Haydn's father ant{ teacher, we were asked to refute an impression that appears to be held' by a section of the public oohoernina the wonder child. The parents are coi£ stantly being questioned as to the adyisabihty of a so-called' "forcing." This ?s an. entirely unknown factor to them, Ihe boy since he was five years of agehas shown wonderful natural gifts: even. at two he evidenced clever vocal powers showing his musical inclinationa--vrhich. nave been developed so judiciously and systematically - that-with the 4ild>iU. eagerness to learn, his natural apijtude. physically, and his remarkable intuition, —the supposed extortionate amount of practice to gain his present astonishing: proficiency is purely a myth. He possesses abnormal talents which enable fet? <>TO >me wi| h ease that which. SfS 1* y«ar v of practice to accomplish !^Otherwise u he a bright, normal boy, getting through his every day and play like any otherboy of his age. He is perfectly unaesuming, thinks nothing of what he accomplishes as a violinist, and will enter into_a.game with the first boy he meet* ™ J?^?*?! 6* SF Playground, At school —theManst Bros—he is smart and is a, great iavounte with his teachers and ■SSSKBT* ThS who S° -to Hear'hii will, find him anything but a " forced J> •■■^^-"^■■■•■and to question his own fondXf 8 IU6I? T after hearing him would S.^r't- lB! quitS en^ co£ , certs, jiooking forward to them as he> a and it is the^rea^ est difficulty to^preyeht him from^playV more than he is already allowed to " S^7. > .taken .the concerted occasionally glve n do not come upS In fact, he i 3 fbrtuiudS mJiaving the care of those who know f lo.^.^ carry out their plans without %£F th\ boy's heafth^nd pS; pects, and who are not without the. Sft. -of wiat is best to do with gard to his future. There is no inten'sS'Jr »W Master Haydn « a prodigy » but occasional appearances made solely for the purpose of mafiimF