A SERIOUS DEFECT.
I'adcrewski Joseffy Fortissimo Leo Was 1 1 ■>-. Treat est pi.inist you ever did see; He rendered fantasias, gavottes, and cantatas, Cadenzas and overtures, rugues, and sonatas. Ho could play like the sweep of a rushing cyclone, Or as softly and low as the south wind's faint moan. He knew all the works of Beethoven and Liszt, Of Wagner and Chopin -not one had be missed. He gained honors and laurels wherever he went, And ho knew he deserved them, so he was content. But his pride, had a fall; for one summer day A dear lifcle g"irl came to hear this man play; And she said, as he turned politely to jrreet her: " Please, sir, can yon play ' Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater' ?" He was deeply chagrined, and he felt very blue, But he meekly replied: "No, I (an't, dear; cau you?" "Oh, yes," she responded. She flew to the keys. With her two fat forefingers she played it with ease; And she afterwards said: "I would rather be me Than Paderewski Joseffy Fortissimo Lee."
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Evening Star, Issue 11724, 5 April 1902, Page 8
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177A SERIOUS DEFECT. Evening Star, Issue 11724, 5 April 1902, Page 8
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