Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-07
Primate of the Piano Arrives This
Afternoon from Denver in
Private Car.
is LOSING HIS FAMOUS HAIR,
But Judging from Denver Perform
nnccs His Musical strength cot Fol
lowing IIirsulte Ornamcntation.

Ignace Jan Paderewslti. the prlmate
of the plano, the greatest OF all living
performers, arrived this afternoon
from Denver. over the Rio Grande
and remained In his private car prior
to his appearance this evening, in the
Tabernacle. The artist met with a
great reception In the Queen city
where he played in the Central Presby-
terrain church, corner Of Seventeenth
street and Sherman avenue, to an au-
dlence that filed the auditorium to the
doors. AS that church win hold 1900
people on a pinch the extent of the at
traction is the more readily imagined.
Paderewski was given hearty recep-
ton that must have warmed up his
musical enthusiasm considerably, and
for two solid hours he sat before his
piano and held that immense audi
ence subject to his will.
According TO expert local critics like
DR.. George l.. Knapp VINO repO.te~
the recital for the Denver News. 1T
was the best thing that has come to
this city this year, bar none The
general impression the artist produced
on his hearers was that he is par ex-
cellence, not only the interpreter, but
also the performer Of the day. Pader-
ewsM is a performer who never Sights
his work He plays well all through,
and without any spectacular feats. The
program he gave in the Presbyterian
church was as follows:
Variations and Fugue, op. %. .
49,. ...... .......... Paderewski
Sonata, OPP. ~, No. f ilat..
........t,.. ....... Beethoven
"Auf den Wasser zu Singer" 49,.
'Soiree de Nienne," A major.
ErllSng" ...... -. Schubert List
Nocturne, + sharp major. OPP IS.
Etudes Nos. 10 and 5, Op. TO-.
Scherzo, Il fiat minor. ........C Chopin
Chant d'Amour" ... Stoiowski
Rhapsodie Hongroise No. b.. List
THE PERFORMANCE
The manner In which the artist in
fused his poetic spirit into his own
composition, the first number was re-
garded as a wonderful performance,
while the way in which he presented 81
different variations of the original
theme was marvellous. But the
artist appeared at his best
in the List numbers with perfect
execution. touch that suggests
the hmpd In its most idyllic sense, a
melody Lyric in it's purest sense, and
richness that Was dramatic in the high
est Interpretation; while what mus-
clans call tone poetry was wrought in
with an original and dramatic rich
ness that was fairly overpowering.
Paderewski seemed to have selected his
program with a view to musical pNesy,
which was brought out in its fullest eX-
tent in the performance. Attention has
been called to the fact that many plan
lists select the List Rhapsodies. rather
rs musical stunts, with an eye rather
10 the spectacular and empowering
But PanerewslSi converts them into tone
poems--he makes the piano sing; and
for this very reason Paderewski makes
such an impression as a Chopin player
Chopin's works are of the best pattern
of poetic art in piano composition no.
ticeably in the Nocturnes and the Po-
fish genius understands this thorough
IL.
IS LOSING HIS HAIR.
Some of the critics have been observ-
ing other things about the great pianist
besides his performance at the piano.
They have been critically examining his
mar; ana they claim he Is 10 ing It; IL Is
coming out There is no more back
ward flowing pompadour The front
is clipped OFF short In front and the
sides are trimmed square like a small
boys. one critic wonders II when his
hlfsute ornamentatlon is gone, his mus
zeal strength viii 80 with 1t, as did
Samson's when Delilah finally succeed
ed IN leading the Judge in Israel astray.
Then the mans fingers have been ex-
amined, by critics who claimed they
We're short and rather stubby, carrying
a rn-off appearance at the ends sug-
gesilYe of constant use of n tyre writer
and the texture Of the skin of those
hands is asserted to be neither soft nor
fine, Then his arms are long and
lanky; and his gait is considered some
what shutting. But when he sits down
and begins 10 play, people forget all
about any unattractive qualities of APP
pearance and they think cf nothing but
the music coming from the piano Pad
ereWsM is always cordial He will ex-
tend the warm and heartfelt hand to
the critic who writes him up and then
turn around and shake handa lust as
cordially with the stage hand who
comes to move his piano for him around
the stage. He sleeps a good deal--nerv-
Gus people always need more sleep than
those of a phlegmatic temperament.
Paderewski has a genial. gentle emper
ament. though he occasionally can show
temper when there is occasion for II.
Tho artist ought to be I'm good Trim for
this evenings performance az the tab