Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Paderewski is called Paderooski, or Paderefski, with Ignaz or Ignace for a first name and Jan or Jean for a second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils...
Vienna heard him first, then Berlin, Paris, London. The Steinways brought him to Manhattan in 1891. He played in the old Madison Square Garden Concert Hall but it would not hold the crowds, and Carnegie Hall was for the first time used for piano recitals. Paderewski became the rage from one end of the country to the other...
...imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises hour upon hour. His hobbies are billiards, bridge, books, cinemas...
...Fifty per cent of the ability of the internationally known opera and concert singers in innate. The other half is acquired through good hard work, and application of the principles taught by master teachers." Such is the opinion of Marion Talley of the Metropolitan Opera Company, expressed in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall after her first public appearance in Boston...
...second concert of the annual series of expositions of classical and modern chamber music will be held by Mr. Arthur Whiting in Paine Hall in the Music Building tonight at 8.15 o'clock...