Overheard in a New York street car:— Average Young Man (to neighbour): “Everything they say about Paderewski is true. He’s a perfect genius. Why, he played fourteen pieces and did not once look at the programme. Yet he played straight ahead and never once forgot what piece was to come next. I tell you the man who can do that is a dandy.”
Musical Times, January 1896. Cited in: Scholes, Percy (1947) The Mirror of Music. London: Novello and Company, vol. 1, p. 322.
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