Prodigious Week

As if in accordance with some official proclamation, last week was prodigy week in the music news.

In Boston, Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma opened his Symphony Hall program with a skilfully contrived theme and variations by his pupil, 10-year-old Susan ("Chiqui") Godoy.

In Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors--Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini.

The four other newsworthy children were Californians:

Ruth Slenczynski, 6-year-old pianist from Sacramento, fairly astounded sophisticated Berlin with her playing of a difficult classical program. At the end of the concert one enthusiast tried to give her a doll over the footlights but Polish Father Slenczynski objected, rushed forward, seized the doll, hurled it back into the audience.

In Manhattan Grisha Goluboff, 9, of San Francisco, played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto so deftly that critics spoke of him in the same breath with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, II, who was scheduled for a recital a few nights later in spite of his father, who protested in court last year that Guardian Elizabeth Lackey was injuring the boy by permitting him to play in public (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930), now has custody of child.

Most prodigious of all, Yehudi Menuhin, 14, wore his first long pants in London, to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto under Sir Thomas Beecham.

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