AN AUSTRALIAN MOZART.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 298, 7 April 1877, Page 4

AN AUSTRALIAN MOZART.

(Ar; ■' . Mirth 23.) At the 3ktbonn:e Atheii:citm yesterday af .etttoon occurred a perronuance which was altogether onirjne. Eme3t Hutche"son is a little fair-haired l«»»y, about five years and a half old, with a sunny m-mner a"d a good face to lor»k info, whic'i cirries with it the stamp of a fine intellu* ne • for one s<» young. ll.s is really infused by a perfect sympathy with music, an 1 does that by intuition which even men who h»v*j become great in the art have failed to do after yea-s of praetica. Ernest Hutchcsoti plays the piauor<>rt« as a child must play w.:o cannot stretch ins lingers to the txisent of an octave, and he is such a littL* fellow that he has to on a chair to reach t!»e nranttal of the instrument he plays on. In this position he is rpiitu at his rase, an I seems to see the keys on the piano thmujh tlic tips of his timers, for. in the selections whic'i we hj; ard him p!ay y» sterday, it did not interfere with bis atenracy of touch whcihi-r his cy.'S-were fixed on his um.de or were looking out through the nearest window. He has-only a child's power over the instrument with his hands, but in his head and heart are absolutely enret ju Igimuit and spontaneous warmt iof f.-ehng. His first sel etion waa the air Si II mio t "soro," from Mo/.r.rt"s 'Don Giovanni." We t ave never heard it sung in this country with such jus. phrasing and p'i-f.;ct c-s----prtssion as this g.fted child played it with ywterday. He played some !-al*-dozeii ot er piec'S. whtc i Or.re upon them the impress, of the same remarkable gudtis. Another irtnab* fteuUy. aud o;ieabo ; etfier surpr.siug, he di.sp'ay.'d when sban iing in f. e middle of the p'at form and not b>.lcing as the pianoforte lie correctly and instantly amtounc d the nam-.* of the not s foit(*!ved on the by Mr. J. Su-iuners and by Mr. I'u'vt-r. The.-ie -enttemeu tested this ran.* fac dty w'uh c.ords in great variety of r. trogressioo. and invvrsEoti. D flat, A tta", and F tnturtl : C sharp. E natural. (r ttatn:a r , an I li Hat : and s»on in varyseries, were aonotmevd bv the ** ff"ii-d'er-ehdd'" w;t> p rfeet accuracy as s »>n as srtttck, to the givat a-buirii'Oti of" ;i!i who heard him. A+ a further e:; iib:t.ioti of his powers, the little f How played a few bars of a lively strain o« I'ds o-v:» comporttCo;*, and by a p" 'gtvsd n of ti its conducted if a complete eireie of modulation. It was alt -gether a surrUir'jf arid most admirable exhibition.