The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-12
Receipts for PadereWski Concert
Below Expectations.
Organ ASSOCIATION Receives q
Little More Than $500.
DIDN'T A ITS WAY.
Great Pianist Gets $4,000 for
Each Concert.
Critical Review of the Program
Heard in Topeka.

From d financial standpoint the
Paderewski concert at the Auditorium
last night was not the success that a
been anticipated. It a been conf
IDENTIFY expected that the seat sales
would have aggregated over three thou
sand dollars, but when the final figures
were summed up, it was oun that the
sale amounted to but $2,032.
The Pipe Organ association was sue
cessfuI in securing this attraction on a
percentage basis and there was no
guarantee to a a certain sum for the
attraction. The local share of the re-
ceipts was 20 per cent, or $4,000. The
expenses of advertising and hall rent,
were approximately $3.50, so that the net
profit from the concert was in the
neighborhood of $3.50. This sum will be
applied to the pipe organ payment fund.
PadereWsh receives $4,000 or more at
every concert he plays. The SteinWay
piano people, who direct his tour, a
anteeS Paderewski at least $4,000 for
every performance at which he appears.
If the receipts are under $4,000 it makes
no difference to the artist because some
one has to pay him. A PadereWSkl
concert rarely attracts an audience
which pays oOr receipts that aggregate
less than from 50, 500 to $4,000, SO that
his managers make up in some other
town what IS AOSL at the rev EOWllS ike
Topeka when the receipts are not
enough to supply the guarantee. IN ad-
dition to receiving his guaranteed $4,000,
Paderewski gets a percentage Of all
the receipts aggregating a certain
amount over $1,000 performance. The
net receipts to the Paderewski manage
ment from the Topeka concert were
only q trifIe over ST. 500. It is likely that
after the reception the pianist a here
last night by the audience which heard
it, 49, a. z@z- C,14-A EA- n -.
by him a year from now would amount
to twice as much as it did upon the oc-
casion of his first visit to this city.
It cannot truthfully be said that To
peka as a town is especially enthusi-
astic about piano playing. As a rule
the chances of financial success are
against a piano concert here. OF
course a cne-perfOrmer show is al
ways less popular han a performance
to which many great artists con-
tribute, but a great singer. one of in
ternational fame. can invariably draw
enormous audience in Topeka.
Pianists have hitherto been less sue
cessfu1, but last night the magic of one
Polish name suficed to overcome the
it is identified and between $500 and
5000 people attended the Paderewski
concert at the Auditorium.
This great pianist-the consensus Of
OPINION seems 70 De LndI he IS THE
greatest since Rubenstein and List,
and far be it from an obscure critic in
Topeka, Kansas. to attempt to detract
from his glory-has played all around
US on previous American tours, but
never before in Topeka. However,
most of the people in his audience last
night, at least most of the musical
people, had heard him before, some a
number of times.
That his playing has in no degree
diminished since his last visit to his
country, as some had feared might
have esuIted from his greater atten-
ton of late years to creative work,
was evidenced almost the moment he
touched the keys and qualification, de-
light, amazement succeeded one an
other as he proceeded.
AS a programme maker especially
Paderewski excels. The programme for
his Topeka concert was a delight. It
opened with the List transcription Of
Bach's A minor Prelude and fugue fol-
lowed by Beethoven's F minor Sonata
and Schubert's -Impromptu in B fiat.
These with the List transcription Of
S~chubert's Hark. Hark the Lark and