In Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, Vladimir de Pachmann, famed Russian pianist, aged 75 (TIME, Sept. 10), gave a recital on the pianoforte his first in America in twelve years. Standees packed the parquet five deep.
Next day metropolitan critics commented :
Deems Taylor (World): "Three thousand people saw murder done last night at Carnegie Hall. . . .
"The brown curtains parted and out came a chunky little old man with a head something like Franz Liszt's portraitsthe same high forehead, eagle nose and long gray hair. The audience burst into applause. . . The...
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