New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-24
PADEREWSKI AIDS
POLES BY MUSIC
Pianist'S Plea for Stricken
Fatherland PreCedes
His Playing.
ERRAND OF LOVE,
NOT HATE, HE SAYS
Audience Enthusiastic and Big
Sum from Performance Goes
to Swell Fund.

/ Il was Paderewsh the patriot who
| played yesterday afternoon in Car
negie Hall. but was Psderewsh the
orator who appeared as well.
Paderewsk played for Poland for
Poland. his native land. the Poland
which is, as he 30 well expressed IT.
now "a vast desert, a colossal GENE
/ terry" And the huge audience ap-
plauded both his playing and his words
as II never applarded him before. Al
his entrance the audience arose 10 give
the tribute of applause.
Across the back OF the platform.
! hanked by the stars and Stripes, was
the White Eagle OF Poland upon q
crimson banner. This was the symbol
of the occasion.
Behind the seats number of young
women sold flowers and badges, which
were purchased literally.
Ii was Paderewski the orator. who
| first appeared. Before he had uttered
a dozen sentences the audience realized
that the world in gaining great plan
ist had lost a great orator. His was
the oratory of man who felt his sub
/ ject with the most intense passion, who
said what he had to say in the fewest
and the simplest words. He used no
gestures whatever. yet his words went
10 the heart of things and to the hearts
of the audience, perhaps because they
welled up from the heart of the man.
Il was Poland broken in body but not
in soul, misundeI stood, traduced by its
enemies, the Poland of which Chopin
is the universal interpreter this was
the Poland of which Mr.. Paderewski
spoke.
Poland has been misunderstood by
the world We are not race Of angels.
but once we saved Europe for Chris
tianity, and had three greedy empires
given US the chance we should have
proved worthy of our high heritage.
With the partition of Poland fell the
honor Of three empires. Not until those
empires free us will their honor be re-
stored" he said.
Loud applause greeted this reference
TO Germany, Austria and Russia.
Poland" continued Mr.. Paderewski,
has produced great poets, philosophers
and musicians. Some Of them have
been associated with America, and
among them is that sweet woman and
accomplished artist who by her work
in aid of the sufferers in her native
land added another 10 her list Of
achievements in the gratitude Of the
people OF her country. | mean Nine.
Marcella Sembrich.'
This tribute brought forth another
burst of applause, but although Nine.
Sembrich was in the audience, she did
not give any sign of her presence.
Russian and Austrian Poland have
been totally destroyed" Mr.. Paderewski
said Three hundred towns and 10000
villages are no more. Millions of home
less peasants are starving. but my er-
rand is not of hatred. but Of love. | do
not intend TO excite passion, but 10
awaken compassion II ] have succeed
ed. pray speak about Poland to your
kind. good friends: tell them that far
away from your prosperous, opulent,
happy continent there are great peo
pie. in great poverty, suffering beyond
the limits Of human endurance. Tell
them that the very people in the days
Of your need sent you Pulaski. Some
one may be moved by your words, some
one may try TO help us. God will bless
them as he will bless you.'
The second half Of the programme
was devoted TO Chopin, Mr.. Paderewsk
giving the ballade IN A fiat, Op. a.;
the sonata in B fiat minor, the noe
turne in major. Op. 81; the mazurka
in A minor. Op. II, and the polonaise
in 4 fiat major, Op. 50.
The pianist was at his best. as he is
usually in Chopin He played the polo
naise with extreme brilliancy and the
sonata with an exquisite sense Of light
and shade. With him Chopin wept, but
not unmanly tears. Mr.. Paderewski
played him as the patriot sorrowing for
his ravaged country. not as the neu-
rotic youth OF a Partisan salon. OF
course. there were several encores at
the end. And at the end the Polish
Victims Relief Fund had been go
creased BY many thousand dollarc