The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-30

And then a man who thinks there IS
only one pianist ia the world. and that
is Paderewski, told why he thought Sc
In the beginning" NJ said. ~Paderewski
didn't have fair deal in America. H
Is rated at the rip-top in Europe. Ten
years ago when he came 10 America.
society took him up. The emptiest thing
in the world is fashion. Paderewski's
audiences made fools OF themselves
happened 10 attend o Paderewskf concert
ten years ago ia a city. Because it vas
fashionable to go crazy over him. tho
fashionable audience went crazy. There
H. applause and applause. The applause
Paderewsk got ten years ago was insin-
cere He knew It. And he hated IT, He
cut I'D ali kinds Of tricks as a result lie
wouldn't respond TO encores He snubbed
and sighted the people who slobbered
over him II one Chicago home where
ne played for fee me women gathered
closely about him and ne stopped AMI
made them all move back imperiously.
He didn't acknowledge the women's ap-
plause. and quit on the minute. having
been engaged for an hour. Fashion in
the large cities of the east does not
bow to Paderewski any longer 1t has
Z new hero. young Kubelik the Bohemian
violinst. Paderewskf's present audiences
are made up of plainly dressed citizens.
piano players old and young The ap-
plause they give him is genuine. He
knows it, He does not cut up tricks be-
fore the people. He responds to encores
Z is glad 10 play. is pleased by the ap-
plsuse
Paderewski studies hts audiences as he
plays. and as he has seen thousands OF
them he probably understands them He
looks like a sensible sort ~ citizen when
( he comes on the stage. His hair is not as
B long as the caricatures make IT, He is
! dressed plainly in black wears q turn
down collar with n string tie. and has
no iewelry about him. His piano seat
looks TO he four or five inches lower than
the ordinary piano stool. In bowling TO
/ applause he used to just jerk his head.
! Now he bows quite low but remains
J throughout his whole recital as solemn
as a tombstone
! His attitude indicates that he says 10
/ himself something like this: These peo-
/ pie have paid to hear me play I will give
4 them the best there is in me- They are
interested in music. not me Some of the
people are applauding because they Ike
: the music and some are appIauding be
couse the others are. / wished opera
1 glasses were ruled out hate hero wor-
+ shippers. Here goes.
+ Now a curious part of Paderewski's
playing is that he sits very still Tie
has done away with the last sign Of
effort. lie sits on his low char as
straight as statue and looking over
the audience he. plays away. This par
alyzes the spectator who has been told
that he "hYpnotizes his audiences by
shaking his long hair and by dashing in
20 the piano with both fists
Another curious thing about his piano
playing is that his feet are going on
the pedals all the time. As YOU watch
him YOU come 10 the conclusion that half
his art is this pedaing
The audience doesn't wake mp on the
first number and the applause is per
functory- lie plays things that every
piano player knows by heart. The second
number commences TO bring out things
about the piano that the auditor never
suspected and he is curious By tho time
the third number is completed Padere-
wslI has his audience The having it
is peculiar thing hardly susceptible to
explanation. The music seems to have
the quality of being tenuous. resilient
liquid. 1t is mostly Of the soft kind
He gets out Of the instrument "swells'
like the crescendo Of an organ. if a per-
son is sensible enough not TO study the
man or his fingers. hut TO look away.
the mechanism Of the piano finally dis
appears The music is no longer tho
creation of keys, hammers and strings.
The interval from note TO note disap-
pears The abominable runs are no
longer q succession of notes quickly
struck but long. curling bnlowy rockets
Of sweet sound. So iusistent do frequent
~ repeated phrases become that the mind
is in delishtful confusion. not knowing
which it is only remembering and what
hearing
Everybody must hear him differently
Of course. The piano player is studying
his lingering and interpretations and is
puzzled. The person who doesn't know
anything about the piano is under the
spell of exceedingly sweet music.
y Paderewski audience towards the
last IS an interesting study The piano
PLAYERS are puzzled. The younger part
of the audience is indifferent and wear.
But the gray heads. men and women.
are bowed There is something in the
music which awakens old memories old
loves and hopes. The women of age Will
honestly wipe their eyes The old men
viii sneakingiy run their hard through
their hair and draw their hand over
their face and Wipe on tear The peo-
pie 50 affected do not join i'm the applause.
The piano PLAYERS who are charmed with
the arr OF the thing attend 20 that
As Paderewski gets deeper into mis- re-
cital he seems 20 play 30 these emotions.
At the conclusion ri movement he
l.ngthens the interval ~ rest as tho re-
cital grows older and the audience boz
comes queter The man has some sort Of
control over his auditors. At tho begin
ming there is always tho usual amount
II coughing which never ceases az 81
lecture or IN church or 10 a theatre In
tie last half Of q Paderewski recital. there
j. rot the rustic Ct q program. q cousin
or a whisper
Disappearance of Wichita Indians.
from Wichita. ia the ol5 days no cigar
and tobacco store was complete without
him Wichita had several ornate mem
beers ~ the wooden TRIBE. much h-fsatn- f
cred and armed with t1mahawk- 80
occupied q position az tlln front door and
in The earliest days was stationery. tax
ing Sunlight and storm impartislly Later
in Dire career cf the cats De- was mounted
on wheels ard taken be- during storms
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