Word: paderewski
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...late husband's teaching. To get eye relaxation a patient covers his eyes with his hands and thinks of blackness ("palming"); blinks frequently. He practices reading fine print. He "suns" his eyes (rolls his head while glancing sunward). Mrs. Bates has successfully treated many patients, including Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...heyday of 1923, when 197,252 pianolas (more than 50% of all the pianos sold in the U.S.) were sold in a single year, the pianola industry hired the greatest pianists, such as Paderewski, to record their performances on perforated paper. It also hired such early jazzers as J. Lawrence Cook and Harlem's historic James P. Johnson. But as the pianola gave ground to the phonograph, the pianola industry could no longer afford to pay for personal recordings...
Concert artists, like dogs, always grow to resemble their patrons. Most of today's (examples: Gieseking, Casadesus, Heifetz, Serkin) resemble bank presidents or New Deal intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Behind the motley songs were a motley crew of people, ephemeral but intriguing. Most amazing entertainer of the '90s was Mama Lou, gnarled, coal-black songstress in a St. Louis brothel. (Paderewski was once taken to hear her sing, became captivated.) A wellspring of melody, Mama Lou emerges as the probable source of three hits of the '90s: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, May Irwin's Bully Song...