Word: paderewskis
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...Theodore Leschetizky, four times married, died in 1915. Among his one-time pupils are Paderewski, Hambourg, Gabrilowitsch, Moiseiwitch, Brailowsky, Essipov, Friedman, Leginska...
Suddenly everybody in that notable company stood up, silent, then burst into applause. Before them bowed Paderewski, come back to Rome for the first time in 28 years. Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt he played; after every number, a storm of clapping. At the concert's end, the Queen Mother herself stood up, smiled graciously at the pianist...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon. Professor Saunders demonstrated a number of kinds of vibrations with his experimental apparatus in discussing the subject of "Vibrations". He showed a model of the action of the hammer in a piano and declared that anyone could duplicate the tones of Rachmaninoff or Paderewski if he only was able to press on the keys with the right amount of strength. The subject of his next lecture on Wednesday will be "Waves...
...opened in September, 1912, with a New York Symphony concert under the baton of Walter Damrosch, featuring Dame Maggie Teyte as soloist. Since then, practically every artist of . international repute, from Ignace Paderewski to "Jerry" Farrar, has appeared on its platform. The concert-entrance is on 43rd Street, the Aeolian business entrance on 42nd Street. Thus the tainted atmosphere of commercialism was never permitted to invade the sanctum of Art. Now and then, free player-piano and player-organ concerts were given of a forenoon when no orchestra was rehearsing, but these, being free, were not too well attended...
...mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored a newsboys' baseball team. At 73 she engaged M. Kosloff to teach her Russian dance steps...