IGNAZ FRIEDMAN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19058, 21 July 1927, Page 7

IGNAZ FRIEDMAN.

FAMOUS POLISH PIANIST

When emperors and tongs were more in fashion in Europe are to-day,-no artist was more in request fqr palace recitals thßn Ignas Friedman, the illustrious Polish pianist, who comes to New Zealand under the direction of B. J. Carroll, and who will give two. concerts at Christchureh in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday next. At the Court of. our King George he has played since the war, and also, at the Courts of Spain !and Roumania. Friedman has close p&sonal memories, of three other on«.-power-ful rulers who have been swept into the abyss by the destiny of war, or revotation. One of the memories is particularly tragic. for it was not long before R""s.a plnnged "Jo its long years, of bloodshed, disorder and misery, that Friedman played for the C°ar Nicholas the Second, since made the victim of the terrible vengeance of the revo lutionariee. Another f?P?™ en . ce D wa ° J ? J l %' „g at the famous Yildiz-Liisk Palace. for the Sultan Abdul Hamed,«lso deposed later by «? music. Another honour conferred on Friedman was his .election from a the world's great pianists to perform at cent Beethoven Centenary Festnaimv Brisft! 2? te°aX« and "tudeSts will note the concessions offered.