Word: paderewsky
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musicians. Having arrived from Poland, England, France and Italy, four distinguished musicians loomed, last week, in the U. S. They are: 1) Ignace Jan Paderewski; 2) Sir Thomas Beecham, leader of the London Symphony orchestra, guest conducting for the New York Philharmonic; 3) Maurice Ravel, renowned French composer, guest conducting for the Boston and other Symphonies; and 4) Bernardino Molinari, conductor of the famed Augusteo Orchestra at Rome, who will lead the St. Louis Symphony through a series of 15 concerts. Boasted the great Molinari: "In Rome I have 90 sopranos and 70 contraltos always available...
Igace Jan Paderewski arrived (on the Majestic) in Manhattan ready for a 50-concert tour, beginning at the New Rochelle (N. Y.) High School...
...great music. There have been no Beethovens among them, no Bachs, no Wagners. There have been no conductors of importance, no Toscaninis, no Stokowskis, no Mucks. Olga Samaroff, Guiomar Noväes, Gitta Gradova, Myra Hess, Yolanda Merp are capable pianists, but then so is Ignace Jan Paderewski. The list might...
...York Symphony is next oldest to the New York Philharmonic in the U. S. It has introduced to the U. S. such famed composers as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov; introduced such artists as Paderewski, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Lilli Lehmann and Hans von Bulow. It has toured some 400,000 miles, played to 8,000,000. Harry Harkness Flagler is the sole guarantor...
...place to place in the New England states, giving entertainments at summer colonies. Performances similar in tone and appearance to Tony Sarg's Marionettes are given with a series of scenes of variety and humor. Miniature sketches of a full orchestra, with a nine inch Koussevitsky conducting, a tiny Paderewski playing a grand piano less than a foot above the floor, and the Old Testament, provide the student entertainers with their material...