The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-12
WHAT MALEK PLAYS.
His Programme in Topeka Con-
tainS New Selections.

The repertoire of musical numbers
played on the piano by Ottaker Malek,
the greatest piano virtuoso playing in
America this season, includes nearly a
been heard by the American public
and which were unknown in this coun-
try until Malek brought them.
Malek gives the same programme in
Kansas City tonight, where he plays at
the new Casino under the auspices of
the Ladies' Auxiliary and Merchants
and Manufacturers association, that he
will give in Topeka on the evening of
Monday, February %.
The schedule of prices for seats at the
Kansas City engagement tonight range
from 81 to 81 for the best seats. All
seats at the Auditorium here have been
reserved and will sell for fifty cents,
which is but onefourth what the best
seats bring at Kansas City. Topeka is
probably the only city in this country
which will have the opportunity of
hearing this great artist at the popular
price OF fifty cents The reason for this
is found in the fact that Topeka has the
Auditorium with its large seating ca
pacity and the fact that on account of
| a misunderstanding in regrad to the
dates on Malek'S tour, which gave him
an open date on February %, Topeka
was able to get him at but about half
\ the sum managers pay for him in other
cities.
The reserved seat sale will begin next
Monday morning at o'clock at the E.
B. Guild music store
| One hundred and fifty students of
| Washburn college and sixty students
from the seminary of the College of the
Sisters of Bethany will have seats in a
| block for the Malek performance.
The members of the Ladies' Music
| club will nearly all attend also Many
of the music teachers OF the city have
arranged to have seats for themselves
and their students for the performance,
and the indications are that Malek will
be greeted in Topeka by the most en-
| thusiaStic audience ever accorded a
pianist in this city.
Malek carries his own Steinway con-
| cert piano for use at his recitals.
A telegram received in Topeka to-
day from L. H. Snyder, who is manag-
ing the tour of Malek, inquired the di-
mansions of the doors of the auditor
ium. This precautfcn was taken to
make sure that the entrance is wide
enough to admit of taking the big con-
cert grand piano through without diff
Guilty The piano weighs 1,400 pounds.
Malek is a guest of the Baltimore
hotel at Kansas City today. A Kan
sas City paper this morning says:
'Malek is tall and slender. His hair
is brushed back slightly, disclosing a
high forehead. When he talks, his large
brown eyes CLEAN.
'MaIek carries with him a concert
grand piano weighing 1,400 pounds. 1t
is an inflexible rule of Maleks never to
play Tor VlSlJorS- he says ne play
slowly when not engaged in a recital,
and that playing for those who call on
him units him for his work.
The following is the programme which
was arranged for Malek to give both
at Kansas City and at Topeka;
Toccata and Fugue. Bach Tausig
Rondo G Major. --..-..- Beethoven
Andante .--.--.-.- Haydn
Ballet d'Alceste. .Gluck, Saint-Saens
Novelette, E Major. ......, .Schumaine
lRhapsodie G Minor. ......-......B Brahms
Fantasia f Minor. Chopin
Romance Grunfeld
Cavotte Grunfeld
Ninuetto Observation-Disclosures. Grunfeld
tsRv the Seashore'' ........Sm etana
rTarantella Observation-Disclosures. List