Word: paderewsky
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge attended a recital by Paderewski at Poll's Theatre (see Music...
...having been written for him by Wagner; he tumbled a sunset thunder-mountain into the fustian stalls of Carnegie Hall; he rocked the hearts of shriveled critics so that they swore no one who ever lived had an equal magic in his finger tips. He was Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Next day Ignacio Zuloaga's portrait of Paderewski (including a sky of Zuloaga mauve, a grand piano, the eagle of Poland, and some law books on a stool) was exhibited at the Reinhardt Galleries. Mrs. Paderewski inspected it, apologizing for the absence of her husband. He had bruised his finger in the recital, she explained, and was confined to his apartment under the care of a physician...
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...