The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-18
PADEREWSKT
DELIGHTS LARGE AUDIENCE
BY HIS SKILL.
Gives Remarkable Demonstration Of Hi:
Wonderful Ability-His Fourth
Visit Here.

Paderewski showed his good sense at his
recital at the Kruger Auditorium last
night. He refused to play in n cold draught
which came from the back of the stage.
He had come on. bowed in recognition of
the welcome given by the audience, which
filled every seat in the house, and had
started his Variations and Fugue, op. %,
with its crashing chords. when he felt the
draught too much for him. He had looked
around during the few minutes Of play
and had discovered where the trouble lay.
Suddenly he stopped, left his chair and
retired. The moving Of a bit Of scenery at
the back of the stage showed the audience
what was being done, and in a few mo-
ments he returned, bowed, was applauded
and began over again.
IF this riled him a bit n cannot blame
him. lie can afford to nave things his
way. That he took 1t out ON the unre-
sisting piano might have been the belief
Of some. Certainly he made the instru-
ment roar. In the fugul passages of the
first number he piled a physical force
which woke the strings TO veritable thun-
der. The exhibition was simply massive.
There had been a bit of trouble over the
lights. too. The stage electrician, after
playing a brief scherzo, as 1t were, on the
various switches, succeeded in dimminS
the hall to suit the player, leaving the
stage anu llBui SiuS VI HAC
unlighted-a grateful rest to the eyes of
both player and audience. though perhaps
not welcome TO those in the rear OF the
hall, who wanted to see as well as hear.
In a measure, the same scenes that have
attended his affairs here before and in
New York were repeated, but much of the
senseless species of emotional hysteria
was thankfully absent, and the extra
pieces were gratefully conservative in
number. He gave only three, one after
the List Sonata in the middle of the
program, and two at thu end, when the
assemblage following y a habit which
started with the great players success
years ago) remained in their seats for
more. The audience took II all sanely,
and there was no mad rush toward the
stage on the part of a number who on
past occasions seemingly knew not how
10 distinguish between artistic apprecia-
ton and silly alteration, sincere in pur-
pose as they might have been. Through
out the applause was of that kind which
betokened a keen and intelligent approval
OF the remarkable playing of a remark
able genius.
Probably to most the ma and his work
were not new. There were no doubt many
present who recalled (outside OF his New
York appearances) his first performance
at the Newark Theatre on May IA. 1900.
when he came under the local direction
of Frank E. Drake and Leonard Gray,
now dead. both of this city, and at the
Kruger Auditorium on April 26, 1902, and
March Is. 1905. when he appeared through
Frederick N. Sommer, who also had
charge last night, which recital was
thus his fourth here in seven
years. As on those occasions, he
again gave a truly great exhibit
tion OF pianofoste manipulation. h
can one say about it that is new? His
performances were all that they have
been in the past-the perfection of TECH
meal execution, the acme OF tonal charm
evoked by singing notes and laundering
chords, the climax OF intellectual interpre-
tation of the emotionality and sensuous
beauty Of the music itself.
1t has been remarked OF late at his New
York r~ecitals that Paderewski has grieved
some of his admirers by a propensity 20
hunder in the index to play in the o.
chestral style with fortissimo poundings
and exeesses. This was observed last night
in no uncertain measure. But even in his
mighty climaxes (of which the first two
numbers were replete) he carried the im3g-
ination captive by the wonder of his diGitGl
skill. When he asked the instrument to
sing out gloriously its hallelujahs OF sound
the result was superbly. even grandly. et-
~fective. Thus in his own variations and
fugue on an original theme topus Cd, placed
on the program In lieu of his Sonata III Il
fiat minor (which is said not to have been
received over cordially in New York;, he
crashed out the music till the strings must
have shouted in a stage whisper for mercy.
SO, too, in the Liszt Sonata in b minor -
not always popular with the public. Ills
encore TO this was Mendelssohn's Hunting
Song"
But the quiet moments came In the
Chopin section. when the charm OF the
pellucid notes in the quiet stream Of DELI
cious melody was conveyed as only a
great artist can dc it. Here he gave he
Nocturne in + sharp minor. op. Ii; six
beautiful etudes. Nos. ], 2, 3, 6, s and IL
Of op. %. which received the most cordial
greeting of all; a lovely berceuse and the
waltz in A fiat. OPP. 81.
The pleasing Chant glamour" by Sto-
iowski. a friend and pupil of Paderewski,
was made the more interesting by the
presence OF the composer in the audience.
The final l4szt Rhapsody, No. 10, was
supplemented with the after pieces
namely. the black key Etude of Chopin
and a krakowiak-a Polish dsnce-written
by PaderewsN himself.
This "a P~aderewski's event tour OF this
country. He is TO give, in all, eighty re-
citals, and he now starts on his Western
trip.