Word: paderewski
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What a comedown!" Paderewski did not think so. But he was a pushover for hard-boiled Marshal Pilsudski. Embittered, Paderewski resigned...
Once he commanded $5,000 for two numbers at William Waldorf Astor's home in London. But Paderewski gave his money away lavishly-$2,700,000 to Poland during World...
...five years (1917-22), because of that war, he did not play, "in case the old habit comes back and demands my time." Paderewski put Poland back on the map at the Versailles conference, and Clemenceau told him: "So now you are the Premier...
Fifty years ago Paderewski made his U.S. debut, a glamorous figure with a red-gold mane which excited the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the day. Red-blooded males snorted at "this Paderooski," but everywhere he drew adoring throngs, from whom policemen sometimes had to rescue...
Like the best-beloved of fiddlers, Fritz Kreisler, the best-beloved of pianists hated the radio. A Paderewski recital was something to see as well as hear. Even when he was past his prime, showering wrong notes in capricious rhythms, he sat, leonine and imperious, flailed and rippled at the keyboard with his stubby $50,000 fingers. He was lavish with encores, modulating continuously from one piece into the next, sometimes for as long as an hour...