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George Engles, manager of Schumann-Heink, Taliey, Paderewski, Heifetz, estimated that the U. S. spends 20 million dollars for music each year. His budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions...
TIME is such an excellent periodical that I must call your attention to an error commonly made in the United States of America. The name of the great pianist is I. J. Paderewski. Right. But ... in speaking or writing of his wife you should designate her as Madame Paderewska. GRACE C. D. FAVRE...
...special car rolled into Washington D. C. and on it Pianist Ignace Paderewski. He lunched at the White House with other distinguished Poles, strummed on the Blue Room piano, had some tea, returned to his private car. Other eminent callers of the week included Harvey S. Firestone (rubber), William Morgan Butler (politics...
...reverently as befits a colossus who has been endowed with intellect, imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises...
...Paderewski himself dislikes both, signs himself always I. J. Paderewski. Ignacy is still used in Poland...