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Musicians. Having arrived from Poland, England, France and Italy, four distinguished musicians loomed, last week, in the U. S. They are: 1) Ignace Jan Paderewski; 2) Sir Thomas Beecham, leader of the London Symphony orchestra, guest conducting for the New York Philharmonic; 3) Maurice Ravel, renowned French composer, guest conducting for the Boston and other Symphonies; and 4) Bernardino Molinari, conductor of the famed Augusteo Orchestra at Rome, who will lead the St. Louis Symphony through a series of 15 concerts. Boasted the great Molinari: "In Rome I have 90 sopranos and 70 contraltos always available...
Fifteen times, over a span of twenty-five years, Chef James Copper has toured the U. S., serving the palate of Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski. His has been an important post. Importantly he has filled it. He has granted interviews to pressmen when Paderewski could not be disturbed, protected him with frying pan and rolling pin from tramps who have besieged his private car. This year he turned seventy-five, was pensioned by the Pullman company, pronounced too old to serve the Great Paderewski. He himself broke the news when Paderewski arrived from Europe, begged the privilege of recommending...
...with Chef James Davis, two porters, a transportation and a tour manager, a valet and a masseur, with Mme. Paderewski, her secretary and a Steinway Grand, Ignace Jan Paderewski started last week on another transcontinental tour...
Igace Jan Paderewski arrived (on the Majestic) in Manhattan ready for a 50-concert tour, beginning at the New Rochelle (N. Y.) High School...
...great music. There have been no Beethovens among them, no Bachs, no Wagners. There have been no conductors of importance, no Toscaninis, no Stokowskis, no Mucks. Olga Samaroff, Guiomar Noväes, Gitta Gradova, Myra Hess, Yolanda Merp are capable pianists, but then so is Ignace Jan Paderewski. The list might...