RUGGIERO RICCI: BOY VIOLINIST
MITCHELL’S GIFT PROGRAM TO SDEA CONVENTION
Wednesday, 1:30 P. M., Noy. 27

RYE so often the world is amazed by some
young musical genius— childish hands that
master a’ musical instrument in such a fashion
that the adult world listens in awe and wonder.
The most recent of these is Ruggiero Ricci, the
youngest acclaimed violin virtuoso of our day.
Ruggiero was born in the

that the future will sustain this so uncanny be-
ginning.”
He is a born virtuoso—and more. — Olin

‘Downes of N. Y. Times.

Mature violinists of rank gaze at each other in
amazement when he gives a concert and declares
that nothing like it has been

 

United States of Italian-
American parents, and is,
aside from his music, a nor-
mal fourteen-year old.

He already takes rank as an
artist with the outstanding vir-
tuosi of the day. He _ has
toured from coast to coast in
this country, and in Canada
and Cuba. It is five years
since he made his sensational
New York debut. He is no
longer a prodigy. He now
holds his audiences spellbound,
not alone by the marvels of his
brilliant and astounding tech-
nic, but by the poetry and un-
erring beauty of his interpreta-
tions. One no longer thinks of
him as a boy. He is the
supreme artist.

For layman and musician a-
like a Ricci concert promises a
thrilling experience. If the
former finds in his playing a stimulus to his im-
agination and an escape from the commonplace,
the musician is equally thrilled as he listens to the
inspired music, the sheer wizardry of his bravura
playing, the beauty of his tone, the authority of
his interpretation.

Press and Critics’ Comments

After the first few minutes we cease wondering
how a child could accomplish such a miracle and
surrender ourselves to the music itself—Ralph
Holmes of Detroit Evening Times.

The greatest genius of our time in the world
of interpretative music is Ruggiero Ricci. —
Charles D. Issacson of N. Y. Telegraph.

“Tn all my life, I have never heard a child who
so approached the ideal I have held of the boy
Mozart. Ruggiero Ricci is the marvel of the age.
His youth and his ardor, his unquestioned birth-
right to the instrument, lend fervor to the hope

SDEA JOURNAL e November, 1935

 

Ruggiero Ricci, Boy Violinist

known. A sober judge of sin-
gularly expert experience, a
man who always has my eat
when the brethren of the
Stradivarius are concerned, has
told me that no other violinist
that he has heard—bar none!
—could equal the Ricci boy
in the Mendelssohn Concerto.
—Pitts Sanborn, music critic.

What great talent is able to
accomplish with the labor of
years, he does immediately and
by the grace of God. One
must, therefore, call him a
genius, for he is a full-fledged
virtuoso, able to toss off the
tremendous difficulties of such
a stunt piece as the Paganini
D major Concerto as though.
they were the merest incidents
of a happy musical adventure.
In fact, one heard more tech-
nical display from this child
than a whole season of violin music by famous
adults has produced—Glenn Dillard Gunn of
Chicago Herald-Examiner.

My boy, you are a genius.—Albert Einstein,
great scientist.

Mitchell's Gift

The appearance of Ruggiero Ricci, boy violinist,
before the final session of the SDEA convention
is something to which all teachers who plan to
attend may look forward to with a lot of happy
anticipation. The committee of Mitchell people
which made this selection canvassed carefully and
long many possible offerings but were unanimous
in deciding upon this particular program.

Bring your (blue) membership card with you
to the convention at Mitchell.

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