Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01

Music and Arts by Miss Mary Ida
Wenrich, pianist, assisted by Miss
Margaret Olive Eddleman, reader, and
Miss Lillian May Johnson, violinist, on
Saturday afternoon, February 29, and
the regular recital given by the class
In oratory under the direction of
George II. Valentine in the evening
were most interesting events of that
organization. The program for both
entertainments were exceptionally good
and we'll rendered, and the enthusiasm
of a large and appreciative. audience
was delightful.
The second concert, season of 1907-S,
of the Orpheus club will be given on
Monday evening, March 8, at Simpson
auditorium. The soIoists will be Mrs.
Annie Mottram Craig, soprano, and
Miss Ida Selby, pianiste. Every selec-
tion by the club will be memorized,
and all but one capello.
Nine. Louise Homer will not come
to Los Angeles this year.
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Manager T.. E. Behymer will intro
duce to Los Angeles next Tuesday
evening the most commanding indi-
vidual among virtuosos since the death
of Paganini Ignace Jan Paderewski.
Such is the dictum of the distinguished
music critic, Philip Hale of Boston,
and it is one which cannot be dis
puted.
In the twenty years that Paderewski
has been before the world as a pianist,
he has held a place in the affections
of the public that is without parallel
in the history of music. Paganini has
become a tradition and about his life
already a myth has formed, yet, even
granting that he was all that legend
makes him, the public he appeared to
was very small as compared with that
which has listened to Paderewski's 8
playing Europe alone knew Paganini
while the Polish pianist has not only
played in all the countries of Europe,
but has conquered the United States,
Canada, Mexico and Australia, and
this season he comes to America
stronger, more virile in his work than
ever before.
A concert by Paderewski, the great
est of all pianiSts is always the prin-
cipai musical event of the season
wherever he plays, and as the leading
artist In the great Philharmonic course
this year, he has undoubtedly attracted
the entire music loving public of Los
Angeles. All accounts agree that the
pianist has not been in hetter form
than he is now; has never been playing
so well, and his program numbers
style of action.
There will be but one recital in this
city, at the Auditorium, theater beau
tiful, on Tuesday evening. The pro-
gram numbers are as follows:
Variations and Fugue. op. % Chrst time),
(PsderewskD.
sonata, op. 27. No /, e fiat (Beethoven).
"Auf dem Wasser Singen''; "Soiree de
vienne" major; ''Erkling," Schubert
Liszt).
Nocturne, F sharp major. op. 10; Etudes 10
and g., Op. 10; Scherzo. fiat minor. Chopin.
Chant d'Amour (StowjowskD.
Rhapsodie Hongroise. No. 10 I4iszD
Ignace Jan Paderewskl
gPaderewsli's career differs from that
of most virtuosos. He was not "won-
derchild," but on the contrary was a
grown man of 2S before he ventured to
play in public. To be sure, when he
was 16 he made desperate venture to
give concerts in Russia in the forlorn
hope of making enough money to ease
his poverty and make his life easier
while studying. The results of this
tour were increased poverty and a pro-
found conviction that he was not in
tended to be pianist. And in truth 1t
was several years before he had the
courage to go seriously at his piano
again.
In the full sense of the word Pader-
ewslSi is a self-made man. His father
was a farmer in Russian Poland and
was banished to Suberia for suspected
patriotism in 1868, when Ignace was )
years old, whence he returned several
years later a broken man. His mother
died when he was a baby. He himself
was a lad in his teens before he got
any regular instruction in music, In the
conservatory of Warsaw. After his
tragically ludicrous tour of Russia in
1867 he returned to Warsaw to devote
himself to composition, and three years
later became professor in the con-
servatory He married. had one year
of poverty and bliss, when his wife
died. leaving him an infant son. In his
effort to forget his grief he plunged
more eagerly than ever into his work.
He gave up his position in Warsaw to
go to Berlin to study composition under