European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I i t f t Man sons Lites noblest creature see any current movie feature his life is filled with yet for 1amour he finds time each Day he toils to please his comes Home too tired to leave the House wild horses  move him now but could a poker game and howl a woman views on uie Are frivolous her ethics cant be classed As chivalrous argue Over a ten cent fare then steal your Man without a she says she hates to be but never thinks her hats her figure is her lasting but she always says diet puddle frustrated Ping Pong Julius Katchen Calls i Only play piano to support myself so that i can play table wandering wonder boy Jersey born Julius who emerged in Philadelphia As a piano has reap Pearldon Paris As a mature concert artist prodigies have a Way of fading with like their newspaper theres always something rather remarkable about a Small boy in Short pants playing a Mozart piano concerto with a symphony but As the boy grows older and the pants become longer he often finds the Public which was mightily impressed by the twinkle of tiny fingers on the key Board needs convincing All Over Julius who As an Eleveny Earold lad from West new made his debut with the Philadelphia orchestra in the fall of seems to have lived Down his reputation for precocious Ness and to have emerged As a full fledged con Cert even though he Tiad to come to Europe do it to accomplish this transition Kat Chen had to convince French music notoriously unreceptive to things from the new when he made his adult debut at a special Enesco concert in Paris last with the French National radio Chestra the and the audience As were loud in their since then he has played with several other Paris toured the United kingdom and Eire and played a series of engagements in the zone of at the inter Allied fall staged in Berlin last Winter by the Allied control he represented the United states in a two hour Long musical entertain ment displaying the musical talents of the four then he stayed in Berlin for a special concert arranged by general Katchen made something of an impression on German music lovers who heard him on his zone at for where he played incredibly strenuous pro Gram of Beethoven and both in Solo and with the Numberg one of the musicians commented after wards who would have known that there were any real musicians in America this sort of reaction is especially pleasing to Katchen for he looked on his tour of Germany As a kind of musical he Are Likely to minimize the cultural accomplishments of the i wanted to Snow the he that there is Good music in our own in his zone tour who bears a rather Strong resemblance to a Youthful Harp Marx played to audiences of varying size in auditoriums ranging from the Kammer theater in a Little 400 to the huge titania Palast in which holds in his pro Grams he mixed heavy and Hight with a dash of Gershwin now and the audiences favorite always turned out to be Debussy a Claire de a fact which Katchen bemoaned this seeming dislike for the audiences taste didst prevent him from capital izing on with a flair for the he had the lights dimmed and a baby spot playing on himself time he performed the Katchen comes from a family of professional and Amateur his Mother was a concert pianist be fore marrying his a lawyer and a musician in his spare at an Early As is not unusual with child Julius showed a remarkable aptitude for the he began studying seriously at the age of his teacher was his who had taught at the Warsaw conservatory in her younger Days and had later an out standing music teacher in new his debut at eleven with the orchestra under Eugene Ormandy brought Forth noises from the critics that sounded suspiciously like the noises were repeated when Katchen played with the new York philharmonic the following from then until he was fourteen his life was a series of concert appearances and Katchen Speaks a Little sadly of this i period in his i always wanted to play he but once 1 sprained my Little Finger slightly and after that i didst dare risk i realized my whole career depended on my he Hast Given up athletics he plays a mean game of Ping As a player who formerly was ranked among the first Twenty in the United he pronounces table after three years of being a Katchen his parents decided that Little now should have some formal he posed something of a problem for the school authorities in Long new where his family was living by after a Little consultation Julius was placed in High the following june he was granted a the next fall he entered Haverford College and it took him four whole years to get his but he made Phi Beta Kappa and was granted a Fellowship for a years study in he had been in Paris Only six weeks he made his adult in his Paris apartment Between concert junkets around Europe Kat Chen practices assiduously and broods about his athletic of course i have a career in he but what in worried about is my frustrated career in table then he is liable to say i Only play the piano to support myself so that i can play table this is a the average Katchen feels and often has the capacity for the appreciation of Good but the environmental climate in the United he is not very conducive to the development of that now and then he gets a he tells Story of a rugged looking i who approached him after his Stuttgart concert during his zone tour asked for an he looked As if Hie would be More at Home on the football Field than a concert Katchen he said to me i came fifty Miles to hear this and it was sure Worth Katchen came 3000 Miles in his transition from a child Prodigy Toan adult concert pianist As he takes his bows to thunderous applause and looks Over his newest press he probably figures it was Worth it 10