Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-03
PADEREWsKTs CONCERT.
The Sale of Seats Opens This Morn
ing Under Bright Auspices.

Seats will be placed on sale at o'clock
this morning at the music-store OF
Messrs Walter D. Moses & Co. for
the concert to be given at the Academy
next Tuesday, December 10th. by Pade-
rewski.
The regular rehearsal of the Wednes-
day Club, which takes place every Tues
day. has been postponed until Wednes-
day next week. in order 10 give the mem
beers Of that organization an opportunity
to attend the concert Dr. Nelson, OF
the Woman's College, has made applica-
ton for eighty-seven tickets, and large
number Of the pupils of Mr. Powelis
school will also be present on this oc-
casion. Special rates. have been made with
all the railroad companies running into
this city, and large parties VIII be here
from Norfolk Petersburg. Lynchburg.
Clifton Forge, and smaller parties from
Scottsvile and other points.
The interest I'm the event is so wide
spread and so general that there seems
little reason to doubt that the famous
artist will be greeted by an audienc
worthy OF his great attachments ana
entirely credtable TO Richmond.
This engagement is positively the only
aupearance of Paderewski in Virginia
his first, and in all probability, his last.
concert in this section-for he is so averse
to playing in public that he mas announc-
ed his intention Of retiring from the plat
form after this season.
Ii does not require any large acquaint-
ance with works written Tor the piano
to convince one THAI such programme
as that which has been arranged for the
concert next Tuesday evening Is one en-
bracing most OF the styles that are us
tinctive in piano-playing.
Ii Is lutte safe to assert that no more
stupendous aggregation of difficulties was
ever assembled than Paderewsh has set
himself TO work through next Tuesday.
The two completely overwhelming COM
uositlons are Brahms's Variations on a
Theme by Haendel." and Schumann's So
nata. in sharp. Minor. II memory
serves ne did the former in one OF MS
recitals at his last visit. but TINS sona.a
of Schumann has never been played III
this country by any pianist before MT.
Paderewskis present tour.
BRAHMS has put all his knowledge. his
intensity. complexity, ana sold "ritlns
into these extraordinary variations. HIS
bieh intellectually is admirably displayed
i'm endless mazes OF contrapuntal weav-
ines. while fertility of invention Is
shown to an infinite degree in changing
rvthms and i'm origial passages or al
most impossible mechanical difficulty. To
interpret such a work clearly needs the
combination brain OF a mathematician,
philosopher. and a poet, but the great art
ist is said 20 handle 1t with the same
ease and the same justice that goes TO his
weighing and adjusting OF Mendelssohn
song without words. SO. also, win thdt
MASS Of beauty, Schumann's + minor
sonata. It's form is not as distinctly out
lined as is that of its mate. the one In
G minor. which Is more often played 900
SO that Il gains by familiarity. but inter
nreted BY such "A supreme artist as Pdde-
rewski this remarkable composition
would seem like cloth Of gold studded
thick with jewels of every color
Among the lighter pieces the pianists
own Legende No. 2 is one of the most
attractive. Like all his later comDosings
mis- is made up Of peculiar harmonies
and exouisitely rare tone effects, fun OF
annstant stream of melody, and rsplete
win a touching sentiment lying midway
between melancholy and resignation.