Word: paderewski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorbonne. In London, BBC had Pianist Claudio Arrau in an all-Chopin program and Albert Hall had Robert Casadesus. In Chopin's native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming off the press. Meanwhile, four new. books on Chopin's life and music (the best: Polish Poet Casimir Wierzynski's The Life and Death of Chopin-Simon & Schuster; $3.95) had appeared in U.S. bookstores...
...approach...is a firm and disciplined one. He takes no nonsense from a piano. He sits erect before the instrument and in full command of it. His wrists are rigid and his bony fingers strong and sure...Not only does he play such numbers [as the Paderewski Minuet in G] completely and correctly, seldom if ever missing or muffing a note, but he evidences keen insight into the composer's intent by subtle shadings of interpretation...[When] he tackled a bit of Chopin...I was downright floored. I knew he played well-but not that well...
While the guests sipped & supped at ten round tables, Concert Pianist Jose Iturbi and Barriee Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
...thousand dollars will be awarded to the composer of the best quartet submitted before April 1, trustees of the Paderewski Fund for the Encouragement of American Composers announced recently. According to the conditions of the contest the instrumentation is limited to piano and strings, and each piece must take up at least twenty minutes of playing time...
Larger audiences were hardly better. Bauer remembers being unnerved at one U.S. concert by a vendor's cries of "Peanuts! Popcorn!" Once, in Boston, he suddenly felt that no one was listening to him: the audience had spotted Paderewski in the hall. Another time, on his way to the concert, he was accosted by a Salvation Army lassie who wanted him to give it all up. "Don't do it, brother!" she cried. "Don't lead those poor people into sin . . . with the arts of Satan...