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A man, who could not be induced to believe in God by all the arguments of all the philosophers, professed himself ready to believe if he could see it stated on a postcard in the handwriting of Mr. Gladstone. Persons not otherwise noted for their religious exercise have been known to procure and preserve portions of the hair of Paderewski.
Then they gave a brilliant banquet at which the Princess of Brancovan was present. And Paderewski, one of the most enthusiastic promotors of the enterprise, delivered an eloquent address. No one should be surprised at either his zeal or his eloquence.
I'll write at once! And there is somebody at the Embassy why, of course, I can set all kinds of people to work!" And her feet began to dance along the road beside him. "We must get some Polish music" she went on "there's that marvellous young pianist they rave about in Paris Paderewski. I'm sure he'd help! Otto has often talked to me about him.
"Your Majesty, I am not a Russian I am a Pole!" was the proud reply. The Czar replied, smiling, "There is no such country as Poland now there is only Russia!" And Paderewski replied, "Pardon my hasty remark you speak but truth." And then he played Chopin's "Funeral March," a dirge not only to the great men of Poland gone, but to Poland herself.
He was leading the shaggiest, piebaldest, pottest-tummied, craziest-looking little cayuse that ever wore a bridle. I gave one look at his tawny-colored forelock, which stood pompadour-style about his ears, and shouted out "Paderewski!" Dinky-Dunk came and stood beside me and laughed.
The Concert-Direction of Ernest Weiss was famous for the fare which it put before its patrons, and here was certainly enough variety of talent to please the most critical a famous tenor, a popular violinist, a contralto much in favour for her singing of tender and sentimental songs, a notable performer on the violincello, a local vocalist whose speciality was the singing of ancient Scottish melodies, and item of vast interest to a certain section of the audience a youthful prodigy who was fondly believed to have it in her power to become a female Paderewski.
Later, Paderewski came from Warsaw, his art sacrificed on the altar of patriotism, leonine in appearance, but surprisingly untemperamental in diplomatic negotiation. To each of these and to many others who presented problems for immediate settlement the Council listened, for it had not merely to draw up treaties and provide for the future peace of the world, but also to meet crises of the moment.
"There's a wonderful idea I heard of from Paris a week or two ago," said Otto excitedly "a marvellous electric invention a man's at work on, where you only turn a handle, or press a button, and you get Rubinstein or Madame Schumann or my country-man, Paderewski, who's going to beat everybody. It isn't finished yet. But it won't be for the likes of me. It'll cost at least a thousand pounds."
The Scherzo is extremely pompous and is to be played with heavy accents and a great deal of vim and go; the chords with the utmost freedom and dash. One must use the "letting-go" principle, which Paderewski has to perfection. We next took up the Grieg Concerto; the Peter's edition of this work has been corrected by the composer. At the first lesson, Dr.
Liszt, Rubinstein, Paderewski, and others have gone farther still in the same direction, but he showed the way, and most of his pieces are as delightful and as modern now as they were on the day when they were written. He wrote a few sonatas, but the majority of his works are short pieces such as are characteristic of the modern romantic school.
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