The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
The GAM CONCERT.
Great Pianist Delights Large Audi
ence in Topeka.

The Rudolph GAM piano concert
Jared better with local concert goers
than Lhevinne's given earlier in the sea-
son at the Grand and for Topeka the
audience that greeted the Swiss pianist
at the Auditorium last night was large
The Washburn music school was of
course we'll represented, the dean, Mr..
ALT Klingenbergs having secured the
engagement and most of the musical
elect of the town were there but still
there were not enough paid admissions
TO meet all the expenses of the engage
ment. Mr. Klingenberg had not hoped
to do more than this. He brought MI
CAM here from artistic not financial
motives and said this morning that he
was grateful for the patronage OF MS
friends who attended the concert, ana
thus proved the sincerity of their IN
terest in a truly artistic performance.
1t is taken for granted, nowadays,
that every concert pianist is equipped
with an adequate technic that no play
er appears before the public unless ne Is
technician enough to express what the
composers have said Moreover, Ru-
dolph CAMS fame is esta blished. He
has won an enviable position in the
world of music. His audience last night
therefore expected to hear great plan
ist-to enjoy a thoroughly satisfactory
performance. In his first numbers.
Capriccio in B minor, Dohnanyf's
Rhapsodiea in F sharp minor and in
c sharp minor he entirely came up to
the average expectations ofhis audience
but it was not until he had begun on
the Schumann F sharp minor concerto
that he aroused any great degree Of en-
thusiasm. In this he proved that he
had a good deal besides mere technic-
He showed poetical intuition and pro-
r1ounced musical instinct and the beau
Of hi for hRPn
excelled by any pianist who has played
in Topeka-in fact is not excelled by
any OF the great concert p1anists- 1t is
the most delightful and memorable
thing about his performance-that ex-
quisite, limid, f1awless tone that sang
out so enchantingly even in the faintest
pianissimo in the different movements
of the Schumann sonata and in the
Chopin G minor Nocturne.
The music of Mr.. CAM" a clever
woman said this morning, 'is pervad-
ed by a certain fine sentiment distinct
from sentim entality-" And this char
acterizes perfectly the spirit of his art
There Is something fresh and whole
some and sane and natural about his
interpretations that is most delight
full. His absolute lack of pose, of
mannerisms. either in his performance
or his personality inspire one with i'm
mediate respect and confidence; and
he has a modest and ward
bearing which instantly inclines his
hearers in his favor.
For a final encore last night, follow
ing the List E minor polonaise. Mr..
CAM played by special request of Mr..
Klingenberg a composition new to To-
peka audiences and typical of the most
modern school, L Isles Joyeuse of
Dubussy. It was a delicious thing
apart from its complete novelty
scintillating, sparkling, dazzling.
vivacious creation, to the admirable
of which Mr.. CAM
brought the clearest, crispest technic,
that crystalline tone quality always in
evidence in his performance, and a
faultless style The concert was one
of the real events of the social musical
season. Nobody who heard it could
have failed to sUccumb to the fascfna-
tons of Ganz-the sweep of his tenn
permanent, the beauty of his tone |
above all. the delicacy and poetry of |
his conceptions and his TRANSACTIONS of
these into tone color.