European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 Over Maestro by Lawrence Newton in a concert season exceptionally Rich in Young musical geniuses three under twelve Vears old composers and  startled american music devotees and critics  Burco distinguished Cori Ductor of the symphony and grand opera is fond of comic books. Wild West movies lollipops and goes to Bedat  clock every night. Undoubtedly this is the proper bedtime for conductors Only nine years old. Ferruccio to use the most convenient term is Achild Prodigy. Ever since the Day when someone boosted amadeus Wolfgang Mozart. Age five years onto a. Piano Stool to play before the  of Austria the Public has always had be fore it a youngster of hoop rolling a Tan und Isolde and the like. Wagner is said to be the inspiration for Leonora an which the three Princi pal characters will die violently As Nasty a love Triangle As any adult min could devise. Besides his composing. Master Frissora is expert on the cell and piano As possibly a hedge against the failure of his opera. The whole Frissora family Are musicians the older ones teaching the younger ones to play and Young John Nie was inventing tunes before he knew How to write the notes. He began to narrow his Field to the opera at the. Age of nine and makes weekly trips tothe Library " where he. Is called inevitably the Little professor to stud opera scores. Some of the music from  has Ben played and receive enthusiastically by. School audiences. One music critic reported the score musically Correct and free of errors. All serious music is written within framework of rules As rigid As those of spelling and any trespass of the Rule Sis musically an error and although he does t get out to play very much Johnnie s Only  life is that he s never  a real live opera an omis Sion Man grown ups would count among their blessings. ". Meanwhile in Tallahassee Flor Ida the state University s  is rehearsing for the pre Miere of the. Symphony the emperors new clothes written by eleven year old Ryan Edwards. The symphony is the latest in a series of Edwards compositions which runs to mazurkas Violi nocturnes and concertos musical set Tings Tor poems by Robert Louis Steven son and Edna St. Vincent Millay and a bit of two fingered from from that the lad picked out on the piano when he was eight. This last was what tipped. The Edwards family off that they had  on their hands. The boy studies once weekly at Florida University where he May be the Littlest big Manon Campus in the u. S. His symphony the emperor s new clothes is based on an old legend of the ruler whom some medieval con Man swindled into buying a suit of n6n-existent clothes by telling him that Only fools could t see them. And when he Sready for it the boy is planning to do an opera based on the myth of Hippo Lytus who was killed on orders of his Stepmother and brought Back to life by Aesculapius the god of Medicine. No jazz or bebop Mars Ryan s strict Classi  training. I like. It All right he admits but it s got nothing  in his spare time Ryan practices his piano and Chews Bubble gum. Serious musical authorities Are aware of the precocity Factor in musical Talent. For instance Little  receives instruction at Florida University s school of music and the staid Paris conservatory will accept no student older than eighteen years. The idea there being that if you re Nineteen and have to come to the conservatory for instruction then it s Loo late for you. In new York the Cooper uni Onart school has been working for some time on devising tests that will separate the Young geniuses from the merely Bright ones and enable the former to get some kind of special instruction. Besides their extreme youth there area few other common denominators run Ning through these three prodigies. Al three came upon music Early because their families were All musically trained in some Way. Great musical families Are an old Story the bachs and Strauss being just a couple. All three make top notch grades in school and their Little Heads Are filled with outside knowledge far beyond their tender years but this really does t prove very much about child prodigies who come and go with the seasons. Sometimes Genius develops retard edly. Take the Case of the woman named grandma Moses who Learned to paint Only at the age of seventy and immediately became . This by All the rules should make grandma kind of child Prodigy in reverse. Or maybe a second childhood Prodigy a composer Long before he could write notes 11-year-old Johnnie Frissora is working on his opera  he also plays cello piano. Latest composition by Young Ryan Edwards is symphony the emperor s new  before that he compose d mazurkas concertos. Weekend april 24, ims