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I 'Prof. V. P. Hunt Observing His 89th Birthday Continues Interest in Music Sixty years ago, in the days of the circuit-travelling Metho- Heard Famous Musicians While there for a period of -- -- ." I two years, he sat in rapt awe as dist ministers, had you been in |famous artists such as Grieg, the vicinity of Toronto, you | Rubenstein, Joachim, Moskowski would have noticed a dapper youfig man who accompanied him with his ministerial father. The minister of that era was the late Rev. John Hunt, a native of Lincolnshire, England, and the young man who accampanied him 189g when hg c-me- to Belle. from one charge to another tor yille ag( Director of Music at Al- nver three years, was Vincent bert College, and organist of 2- wnr.f Bridge Street Methodist Church. Perry num. three- In 1908» Professor Hunt wentToday, the young man of tnree and other piano masters perfor- med at the famous Gewand Haus concerts. Returning to Canada, he went to Toronto and in 1885 joined the Conservatory of Music there in its infant stages. He opened a studio and taught piano until Today, the young man 01 wiree- --- --» -- ---- score years ago now the dean of fcfS^!6^ £™f Belleville musicians, Professor V. ed to Belleville and re™n"w. P. Hunt, is quietly observing the «- - . - • -- - -i. 1 former position. He retired in 1940. During his sojourn here, Prof- Hunt founded the former Bellt- ville Philharmonic Society, which became famous in this dis- trict with its presentations of Handel's Messiah, Hadyn's "Cre- ation'1 and other notable works. The Philharmonic was also re- sponsible for the bringing to the city manw concert artists. Two Children Professor Hunt married the . , 89th anniversary of his birth, at his Pinnacle Street apartment. The near nine decades of life has been lenient with its toll of this quiet-spoken gentleman. He is as physically alert as he was thirty years ago. The long deli- cate fingers, that bespeak the I artist of the piano have lost none I of their suppleness. Even today they .ripple over the keyboards of the Hunt piano "just to keep-- •«--.* -u\,«4. Vo. ; piano J U D U w »v.«xr | jrTOiessor nuni* jnarncu m^ in touch". For Prof. Hunt re- jfonner Miss Ellen Robinson, of tired from his profession of piano i Milton Ont. They have two chil- artist and teacher several years i dren> a son Harry Kt Hunt, of ago. the Imperial Life Insurance Co., Toronto, and a daughter, Mrs. youthful Appearance ^Richard (Helen) H. Allen, Pitts- In the warm comfort of his i/burgh, Pa. Mrs. Allen is a well apartmentTthis morning, l^of known violin virtuoso who trav- _apartmenu __^^ ^M^nr& andielled extensively in the United States and Canada until five I years ago when an accident de- » a uiico. *^»~ • - - Istroyed her bowing arm. ipft st)ent in the realm of music. Three grandchildren are a part His keen eyes, well modulated Of the family, Patricia Hunt, who apanmenu tma *^ *~«0» Hunt with natural reticence and modesty, hesitantingly gave an Ontario Intelligencer representa- a brief resume of a colorful Born in Whitby, Ont., eighty-, iand, and William Perry Allen of nine years ago today, received1, Utah University, Salt Lake City his education there and until he was twenty he accompanied his father over the ministerial cir- natural musical in-cuits Both grandsons are at present serving as midshipmen in the United States Navy and are on cuts .«» -- ~ -------- , instructional cruises in the stincts asserting themselves at an) pacific. early age, he started to study Better Appreciation of Music rnnno when he was eight years nlS One of his teachers was Dr. While the world generally is Torrington, Toronto. moving at too rapid a rate for a Tn further pursuance of his large number of young people to ™ano studies the youthful Hunt take good music seriously, Prof. went to Leipzig, Germany, where Hunt believes that this is not an T^ThPrame a pupil of the famous indication of decline of interest. I Through the media of radio, con- i cert hall, and artists, he feels i there is a greater appreciation of the better class of music. While Prof. Hunt is retired, he has lost no interest in the piano. Physically capable as he was three decades ago, he has acted in a supply capacity at the organs of city churches. "I play daily," he smiled. "I have no rheumatism. I do it just to keep in touch." a pupil nr Car Reinecke.Dr. Carl neincv, A V-