Word: paderewsky
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best at least the best known pianist is a Gentile-Ignace Paderewski...
...Minneapolis, Ignace Jan Paderewski rose three hours before his accustomed time to give a special concert in his private car for ten Catholic nuns whose vows forbade them attending a public concert...
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...
...figures in one Louis Sherwin's "Report on the Music Industry" in the March American Mercury are high enough to be incredible. He estimates that Paderewski earned $1,000,000 from concerts in two years, that ten other instrumentalists and singers* had earning capacities which equaled or exceeded Paderewski's. He also notes: "One young pianist of quite recent reputation was paid $12,000 for a week at a movie theatre. Thereupon, Kreisler refused an offer of $15,000 for a similar adventure, not on the ground that it was beneath his artistic dignity, but because...
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...