The legendary pianists; Paderewski, Scharwenka, Granados

The following tape recorded program is made available to this station by the National Association of educational broadcasters. The legendary pianists. Washington State University brings you another in a series of recitals by the keyboard giants of the early 20th century. The masters of piano art who made most of their recordings before the era of modern electronics. These legendary concert artists made their records on thick rolls of perforated paper similar to the player piano rolls but designed for a much more complex instrument called the reproducing piano recital we will hear today is selected from more than a thousand of these roll recordings in the collection of Dr. Campbell style. The chairman of the music department at Washington State University. The performance will be on a

Steinway reproducing piano in Dr. Stout's home. Here now is Dr. Campbell start to introduce today's imaginary piano. Today's program presents a recital of well-known compositions with the composer in each case as the performing artist Paderewski tells in his memoirs about the circumstances leading to the composition of his famous minuet. During the time he was a professor at the Warsaw conservatory he was a frequent visitor in the house of a distinguished physician who was very fond of the music of Mozart and always insisted on hearing everything of most sort that was in Potter Eskies repertoire. Because of the physician's conviction that no living composer could be compared with with Mozart. Paderewski decided to play a joke on his friend by composing a minuet in the style to play on his next visit. Upon hearing the work for the first time the physician not only accepted it as Mozart but continued to extol the virtues of Mozart's writing. But the

rescue took great delight in telling him that it was his own composition. In the revised form that we now know the composition it rapidly became a favorite of audiences everywhere it was heard. We will now hear PA-RISC his interpretation of his minuet Opus 14 number 1. You have heard it as performed by the composer for the second number on today's

program we will hear his performance of his bullish dance Opus 3 number one which was recorded for the new award in 1015. You have heard of Uncas police dance as performed by the composer in

1916 the Spanish composer Granados came to this country to see his opera go yes Guss which was receiving its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House. On his return voyage he lost his life when the steamship Sussex was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on March 24th 1916. Fortunately while he was over here he recorded for the door reproducing pianos several of his Spanish dances. Perhaps the best known of these is the one in the minor Opus 37 number five which we will now hear. You have been listening to Spanish dance by Granados as recorded by the composer in 1916.

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn New York in 1898 when he was 16 he went to work as a song plugger for a music publishing house often playing piano all day for vaudeville acts and far into the night in cafes as accompanist for chorus rehearsals of various musical shows. He received training that proved to be an asset for him as he continued his interest in writing musical comedies. One of the most successful of these was the icing which won a Pulitzer Prize for him in one thousand thirty one. The composition which won great fame for him early in his career is the Rhapsody in Blue which was premiered in one thousand twenty four by Paul Whiteman's orchestra with the composer as pianist soloist. Very soon after this performance Gershwin recorded it for the door as a piano solo. This is the recording that we now hear. I am.

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I am I am I am I am. I am. I am I am. I am. You have been listening to the Rhapsody in Blue as played by its composer George Gershwin. This has been one of the legendary pianists a series of recycles from reproducing piano rolls by the great concert pianists of the early 20th century.

Your host I'm a commentator on these programs is Dr. Campbell stock the chairman of the music department at Washington State University the legendary pianist. It was produced by Omar h Eriksson and for Washington State University Radio Hugh Randall speaking. This is the AM radio network.