The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-24
MUSIC AND THE STAGE.
GODOWSKY RECITAL.

Leopold Godowsky, the Russian pianist,
who appeared in recital at the Peoples
church last evening as the star OF the
fourth concert OF the Schubert club Sc
ries, scored an immense and instantane-
Gus triumph, and placed the name of
Leopold GodOwsky on the list with world
famed pianists. His programme last even
ing embraced Grieg, Schumann, Chopin,
Brahms and List, with one group of his
own paraphrases on the Chopin Etudes.
GOdoWskys art In his own particular
field Is unique; his position before the
public eye today has been gained, not
alone through his remarkabl abilities as
pianist, but as a bold navigator in the
Chopin transcriptions of the Polish mas
ter, and he has accomplished at a stroke
new thing In musical literature Inter
est centered chiefly on last nights pro-
gramme around the Chopin numbers. the
superb rendltions of which have earned for
MIN the title of latter day Chopin In
these spiritual and ingenious transposi-
lions OF the Etudes, the Chopin profile
was never lost, but, on the contrary. the
paraphrases were more Chopin than
CHOPIN himself. Technically, Godowsky's
Playing is perfection, the biggest technical
ana fortissinno passages being played
with the greatest ease Variations on The
Paganlnl theme, by Brahms, was a com
plete revelation to the audience. bringing
In as 1t did his wonderful and dexterous
left hand Technical feats We're thrown
off-hand right and left.
NO more satisfactory artist has an
peared in the series than Mr.. Godowskv
and re-engagement for next season
would be one of the delights of the flu
lure An enthusiastic and apprecfative
audience applauded Mr. Godowskv 70 the
echo. '--o
MI. Lewis Shave, the baritone com
pietely captivated the audience In tba von
F1elitz-Eliland, and added one moro tri-
umph to his already many laurels. his
ease and grace being strongly suggestive
OF that king of baritones, David Bispham
Mr.. Shawe's second group comprised
brace or three songs, the feature of
which was the strongly dramatic pro-
logue from III PagliaccI" This IS one of
the great test numbers in the baritone
repertoire, and Mr. Shave rendered If
superbly. Mr.. Oberhoffer's co-operation
at the piano was a distinct feature of the
concert. A splendid concert grand Stein
way piano added to the programme and
was delightful change from the nstru-
ment used in his Minneapolis concert.
METROPOTTTAN.
An annoying feature incident 10 some of
the big engagements at the METROPOLITAN
this season has been a series OF minors
ing the attractions and the advance sales:
whenever line of ticket buyers at the
box office window gave indication Of BIZ;
| business the management could prophesy
with invariable certainty that u number
Of busy-bodieS would soon be running up
and down telling people that the house
was sold Out and that no seats could be
had. And again, when a particularly at
tractive star would be playing an engage
ment which included a matinee perform
ance, it was pretty safe to prophesy that
a rumor would soon be ahoat to the eff
feet that the star would not appear . the
matinee. When Julia Arthur appeared at
! the Metropolitan a rumor gained some
credit that she did not play the matinee
! performance, which caused a great deal
ment and the patrons of the Metropolitan,
! as Miss Arthur appeared ut every per-
| Torrance of More than Queen" in this
| city. All this is simply preliminary to
| the statement that Miss Viola Allen will
| positively appear at the matinee perform
ance of 1.-The Christian" at the Metro
| poltan this afternoon, as we'll rs at the
| farewell performance tonight. The matt
nee viii begin at o'clock sharp, the
evening performance at o'clock.
GRAND.
Frederick Warde and his talented COM
pany will give their farewell performance
| at the Grand this afternoon and evening.
Last nights audience was one of the
! largest of the week and was thoroughly
representative in character. For this aft
ernoon is offered Romeo and Juliet "
The Juliet of Mrs. Bruno is described
as an artistic impersonation.
For tonight Richard Ill"