Word: paderewskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stock, were made almost a decade ago but are still excellent. Among numerous single $1 discs, at least one-Pianist Paderewski's performance of Chopin's Polonaise in E Flat Minor-suffers from surface noise, low recording volume. With its catalogue of 7,500 matrices from which to repress, Victor could claim that it had the edge on Decca in quality; that it can now fill what seems to have become an enormous U. S. demand for low-priced discs...
Only three other pianists (all world-famed veterans) could top his earning power: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1933 he joined music's royal family by marrying Wanda Toscanini, daughter of the world's No. 1 Maestro. By 1935 he had sold out 350 U. S. concerts. At $1,500 a performance, his concerts were grossing $300,000 a year...
...years went by and Pianist Levant showed no signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows...