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Died, Helena Paderewska, 74, wife of Pianist-composer Ignace Jan Paderewski; after two years' illness; in the Paderewski villa at Merges. Switzerland. She became the pianist's second wife in 1899 and until her illness was his constant companion on all his tours, sitting backstage at every concert. In Wartime she started looking after Polish ''War brides" and their children, established an asylum for 500 of them at Warsaw...
...artist's standing with Steinway has nothing to do with a White House invitation. But it happens that a Steinway protege holds the record for having been asked there most often. He is Ignace Jan Paderewski, whom the Steinways first brought to the U. S. He has played for five successive administrations but this season his neuritis is too bad for him to leave his home in Switzerland. Compared with him, the Morgan Sisters were thoroughly unexciting for the season's White House opener but they were Mrs. Roosevelt's choice and she will make...
...stumpy little man like Beethoven, a comfortable back so that the player could sit relaxed and let his shoulder muscles work for him. Nowhere in New York was such a chair to be found. Pianists like Rachmaninoff and Iturbi who depend mostly on their wrists use stools without backs. Paderewski and Hofmann who play more from their shoulders use chairs with backs which tip forward a little. None of these suited Artur Schnabel, the square-headed little Austrian who was to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Finally one was made...
...Russian River. Founded 50 years ago by western artists and art-patrons, it has" about 1,500 members throughout the world, meets every week. The Bohemian is the only club in the world to exchange with New York's Lambs, includes such famed artists as Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Lawrence Tibbett. Artist members pay no dues, contribute their artistic efforts instead. Last fortnight the Bohemians began their annual midsummer encampment and festival, called the "Jinks," at their redwood camp, Bohemian Grove...
...teamwork, even for the sake of filling a hall in hard times. Mischa Elman's sweet, sentimental tones would scarcely blend very well with, for example, the fast-fingered playing of Vladimir Horowitz. It would be difficult to imagine cool, imperturbable Jascha Heifetz teaming with turbulent Ignace Jan Paderewski, or to picture grave Fritz Kreisler playing with elfin José Iturbi...