New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
PADEREWSKI AGAIN
A Postponed Recital in Car
negie Hall.
BEETHOVEN AND FICTION
Sanity and Sentimentalism
Brought Into Con-
trast.

It seemed yesterday afternoon, when
neeie Hall, which his recent Illness had
caused him to postpone, that the time
was come again when there might be rea-
son as we'll as profit in a discussion OF
some of the details of the entertainment
the music as well as the performance.
There was time when such discussion
was calculated to give more pain than
Measure to lovers Of sanity and sweet
ness in pianoforte music. Exactly why
virtuoso who had established himself as
pre-eminently the poet in his field should
suddenly have felt it incumbent upon him,
to abuse the qualities and pow
ers of his instrument and create unmu-
qical noises whefe musical sonorities were
appropriate. il was hard To understand
Somebody ventured the explanation that
II was because Mr.. Paderewsk had
turned his mind to composition. But ne
had written music before and, neVerthe-
others and his own reverentialy ana
beautifully; so that explanation ala not
explain. Besides, an Interpreter, so ne De
what the word implies, is essentially
creator, or at any rate re-creator-ohe
who must put himself into the hlusi'
which he makes, II his performance is u
be considered an artistic act and ne an
artist And there was never question
in anybody's mind but that Mr. Pad
erewski was an artist, and a great one.
Reflections of this nature gave NOBODY
pause yesterday, for there was nothihs
but music in Carnegie Hall all afternoon
and every question raised by the per-
formers reading Of any particular Worh
I'm his list was interesting. He played
some pieces which In the careless nina
are set down as hackneyed; and he
plaved nothing that ne had not played
before. Yet the twice-told tales were
given not only with an all-compeliinB
charm, but also with signifcances Wnlch
added new interest to the old Delights
This was the case particularly In the
Ballade "a fiat, Op. 40 and Nocturne III
h major. by Schumann, the four pieces
by Schumann C'Des Attends Aul-
schwung." "Warum?' and "Grillen'D, ana
II there could be a differentiation in the
Beethoven sonata In sharp MINOR III
its second movement, so often trea'eu
carelessly because of its simplicity. III
all of these pieces there seemed 70 De
freer use OF the tempo rubato thah even
Mr. Paderewski has accustomed US TO-
and here there arose the question OF ai
tistic privilege or the privilege OF crltied'
question: but whatever the opinion or the
listener as TO the validity of the reading
there was none as to the loneliness WIN
which it was borne upon the sense OF 'he
ouickening effect which 1t eXerted upon
the fancy and imagination. II was
comfort to hear the first movement Oh
the Beethoven sonata played Without
vestigc of the mawkish sentimental oo%e
which has settled upon 1t ever since an
ill-adyised critic wrote the words WHICH
.-ave IL the title of the Moonlight Inc
researches of Thayer freed II from all the
nonsense of its being a memorial TO unre-
quilted love and gave II much heaithie'
programme by pointing out that II was
tribute 10 an inconsequentiaf poet hdiheu
ceume, and a musical expression OF Il
maiden's duplication TO heaven Tor the
recovery of her sick father. Whether or
not II will ever recover from the poor
ranute which the biographical fictionists
have fastened upon It may be doubted
but if il does ii will be through the heip
of such sound and sweet playing Oh '9
music as was heard yesterday
The rest must be record merely. Inc
great room was crowded to suffocation,
tho auditors hung upon every note Oh
the PLAYER. and after the set programme
was finished another was added 10 srauis'
not satisfy. the Unsuitable; and among
the Supplemented pieces were TWO Oh
Nandolssohn's Songs Without Words
Gjszt,s Hungarian Rhapsody, in f. major
scbumann's "Nachtstuck,' CHOPIN
study in c sharp major ana the sa"''
composers ID minor Mazourka.
II. f. *.