Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-20

pianist, will play on the night Of
LaISI21 February at the Schneider q
S=sS Mueller recital hall IS causingI
considerable excitement and pleasure
among music lovers This season has
been pitifully meagre in the matter of first
class foreign musical attractions. In fact
no winter for many years has been quite
so barren. Lhevinne comes marked with
the stamp OF International approval The
Stelnways are advertising him. "circusing,"
l believe is the word now used by the elect
promoters of great artists and happenings.
His personality has been written up; his
domestic affairs dilated upon and his
virtuosity as pianist lauded to the
skies Thirty-three years ago the Stein
ways brought Rubenstein to this country;
seventeen years ago Paderewski. Now
they present Lhevinne II all the critics
write Of him be true he is a very remark
able artist; with all the gifts of genius
lavisRed upon him.
TtTntiI Lhevnne came out of Russia,
Rosenthal's technical supremacy was UNI
questionable. but when Berlin, Paris,
Vienna and Leipzig heard Lhevinne, the
critics acknowledged that new giant of
the piano had arisen. one who Joined with
technical supremacy. the passion and the
poetry Of the Muscovite. Lhevinne and
Rosenthal have been playing side by side
in the eastern cities and the duel between
them has been furnishing the public with
feats OF pianism that have not been at
tempted even In this country since the re-
markable tournees Of Rublnstein and Thai
berg thirty years ago.
Mr. Lhevinne is a pupil Of VASTLY
Safonoff, the Russian conductor of the
philharmonic society Of New York. OF
musical artistic interest was Mr.. Lhevinne's
playing of Rubenstein's fifth concerto, with
the orchestra under Sofonoff's magnetic
direction. Truly a Russian feast!
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The New York Evening Post has taken
up the cudgel for what it calls the Russian
<and Polish musical invasion. There are
now in this country seven distinguished
musicians OF the aforesaid nationalties,
Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Lhevinne. Safonoff
HorszowslSi, Scriabne called the northern
Chopin" Modest Altschuler conductor of
the Russian Symphony society of New
York. and Marcella Sembrich, who is win
ming her usual laurels at the Metropolitan.
Then there has been and will be again the
great Paderewski. Naturally these men
and women do take away enormous sums
OF money from America. The Post really
froths at the mouth. The following clip
pings are OF much interest and really
amusing in their ferocty:
I One look at our concert programs should
be enough to arouse every true Daughter
of the Revolution and patriotic Son OF the
Indian Wars to a realization that the peril
is upon us. The American pianists and
composers are in the last ditch-we had
almost said at the last bar. They may
starve, for all the public cares. But Was
silly Safonoff and Modest Altschuler. Ossip
Gabrilowitseh, Sigismund Statowski, Scrta-
bine and Lheyinne play our concert grands,
these grOwn-ups were not enough, here
comes Miecio Horszowski, mere babe-in-
arms, to charm away our dollars under
the art of piano playing Really, the time
has come TO call halt. 1t Is not merely
bread out Of the mouths of American ar
lists. Is the government sure that they
are not anarchists in disguise? Has II had
Ellis island inspectors at our concerts, tC
see that no socialstc or revolutionary
sentiments are conveyed to our peaceablS
! citizens by these Russian interpreters OF q
people in revolt? IL not, we would cal
Secretary Strauss attention to this grave
| oversight
Worst Of ALL even Americans who ough
TO know better are trucking TO these Rus
] sian invaders. There Is Walter DamrOsch
for instance. His New York symphony
is the program-Chadwick, Paine, Mac
Dowel and De Koven? oh, no.; rschaik
Owsky. TschsikowslIy, Tschaikowsky :
nothing else. And the soloist is Lhevinne
I, Of course. Shade Of James @. Blaine SOM
1 one ought to present Mr; Damroseh will
4 over. And there is the Lotos club. /
gave a dinner 10 Saint-Saens the othe
I night. And showed him some American
5 talent? No. indeed; our old friends, Sto
!, jowsh and Petschnikof, treated him L
K some Of their Tartar tricks. Unfortunately
3 President Roosevelt's annual message
GU. But we are sure that when the fact
r In the case are laid before him. he viii re
= cede from his decision not to send an
b more special messages to congress, an
: implore that body TO come 10 the rescue o
Y our American performers and public
Speaker Cannon wants no more tinkerin
3 with the tariff. But we must believe tina
L he would agree 10 a law regulating tn
amount Of gold a foreign artist may tax
!, home with him, and putting tarin Ia
i on every bar from the pen OF Russian Q
!, Polish composer. Shall musical Americ
. perish through a Slavic invasion? Tn
crisis presses. Sembrich, We hear, Is hiI
l. operate gains, and Paderewski is alread
= bOasting that he viii take a clean mtllio
= dollars out OF the Yankees pockets whe
he comes over for his concert tour ne1