Harry Walker Concert

“A Juvenile Pianist. Master Harry Walker, a young pianist, eleven years of age, who has already played before the Arcadian Club in this city, and also in Boston and Springfield, will give his first concert—a matinee—before a New York audience, at Association Hall, on Tuesday afternoon, the 2d of December. This lad comes to this country with the recommendation of Sterndale Bennett, John Hullah and other eminent English musicians.”

“A New Pianist.

Saturday afternoon, at Association Hall, Master Henry Walker, a pianist lately arrived from England, made his first appearance before a New York audience, playing an impromptu by Chopin, Mendelssohn’s ‘Rondo Capriccioso,’ and Thalberg’s ‘Sweet Home’ arrangement. The new pianist is a fair-haired lad of about eleven or twelve years of age, Henry Walker by name, who was educated at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has won prize medals there. In this country he has secured the approbation of the critics of Boston, and notably the editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, who is not a man given to the praise of prodigies. But Master Walker can scarcely be [illeg.] a prodigy. Incredible as it may appear, his playing is marked by a feeling and expression which would betoken mature years. His studies have evidently [illeg…] in the line of classical music and it is in this which he is presumed to excel; but in the more showy music of the modern school—in the brilliant improvising of Thalberg—he is equally at home.” Goes on, but difficult and in most places impossible to read.