"Paderewski" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the Catacombs of Paris, often wants his money back after the songster "on yon bloomy spray" has "warbled at eve when all the woods are still." He has been expecting something like a song of Patti accompanied on the piano by Paderewski. It was an American poetess—Mrs. Piatt—who ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... cease to associate Paderewski with the night of the Jubilee. I had gone on foot from the Temple through those packed, gaudy, noisy, and vulgarised streets, through which no vehicles could pass, to a rare and fantastic house at the other end of London, a famous house hospitable to all the arts; and Paderewski ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons
... not altogether original; it reminded me, with its mechanical punctuations, of a concerto by Paderewski which contains an exquisite movement between the piano and kettledrum—since the flute, which ought to have supported the voice, was apparently dumb, although the artist puffed out his cheeks as if his ...
— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas
... the "Souvenir de Paganini," said to be in the key of A major and first published in the supplement of the "Warsaw Echo Muzyczne." Niecks writes that he never saw a copy of this rare composition. Paderewski tells me he has the piece and that it is weak, having historic interest only. I cannot find much about the Polish poet, Julius Slowacki, who died the same year, 1849, as Edgar Allan Poe. Tarnowski declares him to have been Chopin's warmest friend ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... play and sing before he learnt to crawl: Piano, bones, or ophicleide—he played upon them all! Some talk of Paderewski, or of Dr Joachim— These artists meritorious are, but ...
— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley |
