Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-04-12
GOOD wHIsKEY AT SALEM.
The Horse Editor Attends Another clas-
seal coneer-His Report.

The Horse Editor Attends Another clas-
seal coneer-His Report.
The initial Oregon performance OF
Leopold Godowsky, who plays the
piano 10 the Russian, Polish; Hebrew,
English, German aud Hungarian Ian
guages, was given az the First Meth
odlst church, our otherwise excellent
opera house has not yet been sutfi-
ciently fumigated and cleared OF rats
20 be suitable TO the enjoyment OF
hlghtOned classical music.
10 spite Of the tail end OF a four
days shower, and the apathy of some
ticket holders TO sitting out three
hoars OF performance they cant
understand, there was very good at
tendance. Even people who have
not learned To make themselves be-
lieve thai they chew up Chopin,
dine on fugues. or digest a .quarter-
section OF the Goetterdaemmerung,
came away satisfied with the "techni-
que" OF Godowsky(pronounced Good
Whlskey" with the accent on the
nuid.) one thing the horse editor
noticed was that this performer, with
the most popular and pronouncable
pig-handle that has eyer come to va
here in the west from foreign coun-
try, went about his stints In a thor
oughly "muslcianly" manner. He
did not 20 at as though he WIS
working a woodsaw on a wager, nor
as though he was a second helper 10 a
blacksmith shop.
IL Is also evidence OF genius that he
keeps a manager who Is a piano tuner.
The obvious advantage OF this over
carrying around house mOyer or a
steyedore IS another illustration that
the great heads turned out OF Russian
Poland are teeming with progressive
ideas. G0dowsky took the audience
fully into the comprehensive grasp OF
his intellect Ia ths way he did the
encore iiends TO an aluminium finish.
His program was In two sections like
an overland train and he put each
section through on It's scheduled time
card AT the interludo, or intermezzo,
AZ we critics term the little halt or
breathing spell between Section No. I
| and No. ?, the player hesi. |
tIted a moment 20 give all tO
understand what was about 10
take place. This was the first .
chance for an indiscrlmlnate outburst .
NJ hlpp1Dotamus applause aud the .
usual senseless recall simply 10
lengthen out the program and enable
our music loving people TO get two
dollars worth for one. But IL didn't
work. The encore jabberwock was
Knocked out by the little cherub-
laced Polander with the intoxicating
'ognomen whacking right into sec
lion two Of his program aud rushing
. "hot OFT the bat"
He came up on the home stretch
little winded aud champing the bit,
lernaps feeling the results OF weeks
pasture on dining car grub. lie halted
moment before coming under the
wire when the labbergasted encore
Lends broke loose. But Godowsky
iimply raised up a little, gave his
a Characteristic little
iip- they are too short any
way for an elevated stage-and
)lOwed clean furrOw through 10
lie end. One OF the best critics Ia the
own tells US II was the familiar,
Elm ladung Lum Tanz," by the re-
Iowned Anheuser Busch-Tausig. But
o most of our cultiYated people II
night have been Dunder und Potz-
for all they knew about IL.
While people, even In the densely
opulated aud most cultured centers !
( the great wooLgrowing west. don't !
Xactly get their mouths watering
yer the Schumann, Schubert, List,
Wagner combinations, as a range :
orse does Ia patch OF red clover, this /
'cond concert In the great classical
'ries was no doubt success, cousid o
rlng that II was the tOo-t0o, away =
p high & number OF the bur ch. =