Word: paderoosky
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Fifty years ago Paderewski made his U.S. debut, a glamorous figure with a red-gold mane which excited the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the day. Red-blooded males snorted at "this Paderooski," but everywhere he drew adoring throngs, from whom policemen sometimes had to rescue...
...soot-blackened railroad yards near Boston's Back Bay was heard one afternoon last week the sound of great music. Yardsmen and scrubwomen stopped work, gathered around a sidetracked private car whence it came. "Paderooski," one workman told the next as the knot of listeners grew. And Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski it was indeed, practicing for two hours the recital he would give magnificently that evening in Boston's Symphony Hall...
...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...
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