Word: paderewsky
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen times, over a span of twenty-five years, Chef James Copper has toured the U. S., serving the palate of Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski. His has been an important post. Importantly he has filled it. He has granted interviews to pressmen when Paderewski could not be disturbed, protected him with frying pan and rolling pin from tramps who have besieged his private car. This year he turned seventy-five, was pensioned by the Pullman company, pronounced too old to serve the Great Paderewski. He himself broke the news when Paderewski arrived from Europe, begged the privilege of recommending...
...with Chef James Davis, two porters, a transportation and a tour manager, a valet and a masseur, with Mme. Paderewski, her secretary and a Steinway Grand, Ignace Jan Paderewski started last week on another transcontinental tour...
Just as it was always impossible for the great Paderewski to name the ingredients in one of Chef Copper's superlative concoctions, so is it impossible to determine just those qualities that have made Paderewski a great tradition...
...young Paderewski had little in his favor. There was no musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...
...great Paderewski is called Paderooski, or Paderefski, with Ignaz or Ignace for a first name and Jan or Jean for a second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils...