The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-09
PADEREWsKI PLAYS AGAIN.
The Great Pianist Opens His Season
With a Delightful Concert in
Carnegie Hall

Long hair or short hair Paderewsh
is still the idol of the hour!
And deservedly SO.
No other pianist living could have
done what he did at Carnegie Music
hall last evening. when, after an alb
sence which to many of US seemed
much longer than it really was, ne
made his first temperance.
For, think of a programme consist
ing practically of nothing but three
long piano concertos!
Even the hardened concert-goer and
the recital fend WINGED before the
concert began.
And yet, what was the result? That
the entire audience remained spell
bound and refused to clear the hall
long after Mr.. Paderewski had added
a List Rhapsody and one of Schu-
mann's Nachtstuecke to the original
scheme
Let no one after the hysterical scenes
that were witnessed last evening use
the words "craze" or lad" in connec-
ton with Ignace Jean Paderewslf.
In his own way he is the greatest
artist of our time.
You wondered how it was possible
for this frail, pale sickly-looking man
to have so much demoniacal power.
Only once did I feel a similar sensa-
Fernando. Paderewski is, II com
PARSONS must be made, much more
like the great italian than the illus
trious French tragedienne.
Every tone seems imbued with life,
and every piece he plays seems to be
with him the spontaneous utterance of
the moment And heavens! What
variety of tone color! What astound-
ing pedallingi The finale of this con-
certo-I mean the Liszt-he played at
a tempo the like of which [ have rare
ly if ever heard.
That anyone should be able to play
it so rapidly and yet be perfectly clear
was simply miraculous. And this
whole pianistic chant-it was really
prophetic-being completed in the same
tone of grandeur in which it was be-
gun. the audience became deliriously
enthusiastic.
In the minor of Chopin, as played
by Paderewski, there is not a. trace of
that morbid sentiment with which
other pianists will insist upon invest
ing it. He plays those sweet, Ian
gushing melodies with broad, organ
like tone that is ineffably refreshing.
Paderewski will not play the same
composers E minor, so gloriously ar
ranged by Taussig-a strange and de-
plorable decision considering that he
consents to play the Burmeister tran
scription of the F minor. But any or
chestral transcription of the latter is
preferable to the original.
The most notable feature of the
whole evening, however, was the first
performance here of Mr.. Paderewski's
Polish fantasia.
When the score of. this his opus 10,
first arrived, it was generally agreed
here that Paderewski himself plays
either something quite different from
what was originally written down or
plays what as written in heavenly
fashion, so simple, technically is the
piano part. He religfously followed the
notes of the score. embellishing moth
ing, adding nothing, increasing the
difficulties of not so much as a single
bar
And the effect it produced was the
same as in Europe. The work is such
an interesting and. in many respects.
such novel one that it is impossible
to dismiss it with a few words.
All that is necessary to say for the
moment is that it fascinated and
stirred the hearers as few musical
compositions for the piano have done
of late years.-New York Herald, No
vember 9Th, 1895.
Paderewski will be heard in one of
his grand concerts in the large taber-
nacle, Wednesday evening, March 4.