Word: paderewskis
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Citizens of Hagerstown, Md., (population 30,000) will group themselves around a poster tacked to a butternut tree. The poster will announce that Paderewski, World's Greatest Pianist, will play in Hagerstown...
...boosters quite naturally take this news to mean that Hagerstown is at last coming to long-merited recognition as a centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect to hear him this winter, this is just what they will have to do, for Paderewski will not play in Washington...
...board the liner Paris in mid-ocean last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski was giving a concert while the ship bounced on the stormy sea like a pea on a reverberating drumhead. Waves pounded her forefoot with a sodden, heavy impact; the wind found a flute to blow in every cranny; passengers in the saloon struggled to keep their chairs from skidding together. Paderewski played on. Suddenly three great seas in succession struck the tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies...
...Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle of those who from East and West, from North and South respond to the pull of the printed...
...Rossini, overture to William Tell; Rimsky-Korsakoff, Song of India; Rachmaninoff, C Sharp Minor Prelude; Handel, Largo; Rubinstein, Kammenoi Ostrow; Beethoven, overture to Egmont; Tchaikovsky, Slavic, March; Moszkowski, Serenade; Strauss, Egyptian March; Offenbach, Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman; Dvorak, Humoresque, Massenet, Aragonaise from Le Cid; Mascagni, intermezzo from Cavaleria; Paderewski, Minuet, Volga Boat Song; Mendelssohn, Spring Song; Schumann Traeumere; Tchaikovsky, Humoresque; Donizetti, sextet from Lucia; Saint-Saens, "The Swan; Goldman...