The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-04-01
hild Prodigy Delights In Brilliant Recital At The "
Group Makes
Presentation

The Interraclal committee OF the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom presented Nata-
lie Leota Henderson, ll-year-old
piano prodigy, in a recital last Sat
urday afternoon. at the Central
branch OF the Y. W. c. A.
Natalie. a pretty child. black curls
falling 10 her shoulders, came on the
stage promptly at $3.50 wearing a
becoming white net dress over a
traffeta sitp, large ruttted cotiar
fell from her shoulders and tiny
ruffles trimmed the bottom of the
skirt. she wore white shoes and
socks. We didn't know exactly what
TO expect, by way Of technique, from
such a mite although we had heard
the favorable acclaim OF her last
recital here.
All doubts were dispelled the
moment her tiny, delicate fingers
touched the keys. Twas something
Of a miracle to see this demure
baby sitting there at the huge con-
cert grand piano, commanding such
tones to come forth as none but the
masters are able TO do. So we sat
back relaxed in our seat, to thrill
to the lifting "Nocturne' by Chopin;
the rising crescendo Of the Allegro
passage Of the Sonata in E flat
Major" by Hayden, and to marvel
again and again at this child who
executed with amazing expression
a whole difficult program entirely
from memory.
Her petite and likewise talented
mother Joined her at the second
piano for the final number which
was our favoriate concerto, the one
in A Minor by Greig. Natalie car
ried the difficult passage, and at the
final note, took four curtain calls
before she returned to play an en-
core. Other numbers played by
Natalie were three Sonatas by Scar
loGi. "Fantasie Impromptu" and
"Valse in E Minor" both by Chopin.
Natalie Leota Henderson, a ma
tive Of Oberlin, Ohio. now at the
age Of II, is student at the ober-
lin Conservatory Of Music. At the
age Of two and one-half she made
her first public appearance, singing.
At five she won the R. K. o. Quest
for Talent in Cleveland, Ohio. At
nine she was one Of the soloists on
the Young Artists Club" series
over stations Wink and WCLE,
Cleveland Last year She gave her
first concert in Detroit.
The group OF youthfuls occupy
ing the patrons seats were: Doris
Bell, Iris Bell, Cornelia Bledsoe,
Geraldine Bledsoe, Gwendolyn Bra
nam, Joey Nuttall Brown, Sarah
Louise Casey, Jean Lucille Car
michael, Rose Harriet Carter, Will
Liam Johnson Golden, Jenny Dor
band, Herbert Jay Fowler. Flride
GQggins Betty Graham, Jean Gra-
ham, Rosemary Graham, Ann Greg
Dry, Reginald Hixon, Grace Howard,
Lucy Howard, Billy Hunter. Eugene
Jackson, Isabelle jackson;
Joan Kennedy, Bertram Kennedy,
Ernie Jene Lothian. Alvin DeMar
Loving, Mariel McClendon, Merle
McClendon, Barbara Meek, Suane
Milton, Agnes Joan Moore, Veronica
Yvonne Morton. Carol Nixon, Bar
bara Panzner, Shirley Ann Powell
Dorothy Priestley, Joyce Elaine
Richey, jeanne Riseman, Jane Ellen
Roscoe, Theodore Rosenberg.
Franklin Seabrooks, Carol Shaw,
Harvey Shaw, Frances Simmons,
Muriel Simmons, Samuel Simpson.
Barbara Sinkford, zelma Smith,
Helen Thomas, Joe Thomas III, Ber-
ney Watkins, Dora Wells, CharIita
Whitby Norma Whitby. janice
Whitby Patricia Whitley, Helen
Woelfel and Maude Blackman.
The grown-ups were: Odessa
Trotter, Becky Thomas Eliza Grigs-
by, Beatrice Williams, Miss Lola B.
Gregory Isola Graham, Melissabel
Grant, Virginia White, Myrtle Sea-
brooks, Mrs. Rowena Watkins. Ruth
Webb, Esther Randall, Jean Waund-
less, Beulah Whitby, Ethel Car
michael Miss Nellie Watts;
Charlotte Phillips, Adelyn Sink
ford. Miss Hattie Barrier. MIS-.
Simms, Mrs. M Gamble, Gordon
Steger, Edna Shaw Esther Dade,
Edith Muskin, Leona Richie, Clos
ter Current, Mabel Halle, Ruth
Jackson, Velma Branam, Mrs. Car
rie Lee Thompson, Mrs. A. Nc
Broom, Bessie Officer and Areta
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