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...entries in the young composers contest at Detroit's Grinnell Foundation, most sounded like crudely rewritten Mendelssohn, Debussy, Mozart. Only two scores had both real originality and technical skill. The judges had no alternative-they awarded both first and second prize to Manhattan's 14-year-old Philippa Duke Schuyler, brightest young composer in the U.S. (TIME, July...
Harlem-born Philippa, a mulatto, is a pretty girl who reads Nietzsche, Flaubert and Dostoevsky. She likes to play chess against herself (to a skeptical reporter who asked how it could be done, she replied: "Maybe I'm a schizophrenic"). At six she gave recitals of her own compositions (The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig). At ten she had finished grammar school (her I.Q.: 185); at eleven she had written 100 piano compositions. Most of her friends, she says, are grownups. Her Negro novelist father, George Schuyler (Black-No-More, Slaves Today) and her white Texas-born mother used...
...first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound, Philippa Steps Out), and scenarios (She Married Her Double, He Married Himself). "Retired today to peaceful Erwinna, Pa. Perelman raises turkeys which he occasionally displays on Broadway, stirs little from his alembics and retorts. Those who know hint that the light burning late in his laboratory may result in a breathtaking...
...Schuylers now broil their meat lightly, instead of eating the raw, bloody, buttered beef and liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
Pianist Schuyler has given concerts in auditoriums and theatres since she was six, has engagements this summer in Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Atlantic City. Her mother, whom she calls "Jody," sold the idea of Philippa Schuyler Day to the World's Fair. With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...