Word: paderewskis
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...London in the 1880s, Harold Bauer heard almost all the great pianists of the day. He saw the ailing Abbé Liszt at one of his last public appearances; he heard Paderewski's London debut. He remembers shaggy Anton Rubinstein, the elegant Hans von Bülow, and the widow Clara Schumann bent so low over the keys that her nose almost touched her hands...
...must become a pianist," Paderewski told him. "You have such beautiful hair." In time, Harold Bauer, who had started as a violinist, did become a pianist, certain that he had chosen the most glamorous occupation in the world. He was one of the shiniest stars of the Hofmann-Schnabel generation, which broke from the grand, pernicious influence of Liszt with its dazzling displays of pianistic fireworks. Bauer found that the life was not all bows and bravos. In an amiable, rambling autobiography (Harold Bauer: His Book; Norton, $3.75), the 75-year-old pianist tells what it was like...
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...
...dutifully through the house furnishings show, looking over the latest things in draperies and taking test plops onto sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
...Paderewski cover rang the gong and succeeding ones convinced the editors that this was the kind of cover that more nearly typified TIME'S kind of journalism. In the beginning, Artist Baker set down his view of what he was trying to do. It is worth repeating here as the credo for a TIME cover...