Word: paderewsky
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert lists for the week contain the name of that eminent Doctor of Laws, Jan Ignaz Paderewski. The University of Southern California has just conferred upon the famous Pole an honorary degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights...
...Ignaz Paderewski has been playing at Los Angeles and elsewhere on the Pacific Coast...
Since the war Paderewski has tried his hand at the premiership, and has returned to America a sadder and wiser man. After him many governments have ruled and fallen, and President Narutowicz, after a reign of two days, has been assassinated. Yesterday a new president was elected--Wojiechowski, who, as his name suggests, is a friend of the "strong man of Poland", Marshal Pilsudski. He is of the same party as the late president, and will continue his policy; but what appears most hopeful is that he has the respect of both Radicals and Nationalists, and is well assured...
...Circulo Espanol will hold an open meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House. Mr. J. San Roma, the celebrated pianist from the New England Conservatory of Music, who will assist Jascha Heifetz and Paderewski in their coming Boston concerts, will render an interpretation of Granado's selections. Mr. Ramon Ricalde, the Spanish tenor who is to join the San Cario Opera Company, has also consented to sing a few Spanish songs...
...production of a stock company. But when these discordant elements are as few and far between as they are in the Copley Player's presentation of Sheridan's "School for Scandal" it were almost blasphemous to mention them. We cannot but feel, however, that the playing of Paderewski's Minuet in an eighteenth century comedy is somewhat incongruous. A less well known minuet might well have been chosen, and while it might post date Paderewski's, no one would be the wiser...