The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-24
MADAME GADSN REVIEW.

The Radcliffe Concert series was
opened Friday afternoon with re-
cital given by Madame Johanna Cad
ski She was greeted with enthu-
siasm by an audience that took nearly
every seat in the Grand Opera house
!! AS an interpreter of a group of Ger
man songs with which she began her
program, she must be acknowledge
! mistress of an art remarkable for its
refinement and its command of subtle
and intimately contrasted resource. A
Schubert number of the group, Die
Forelle," was repeated for the audi
ence, so insistent and sincere was Its
applause after that song. As an en-
hcore to her German songs. she gave
1.-The Erl King This is one of the
songs that her audience expects her
to give at some time on her program.
for as an exponent of its wierd
phrases and its dramatic possibilities,
she has no peer, at least among the
singers who have attempted it at this
stand in recent years.
The second part of the program
was given up to songs in English.
The audience found the most attract
i've moments in the singing of 1.-The
Little Gray-Blue Dove" by Saar. The
piece gives opportunity for a charm
! ing trill and soft, lons-drawn note
at the end. Gadski's trills have in
them a warmth and richness. and
sort of sponteniety that makes one
wish to hear them again and again.
| The dove song is evidently a favor
lite with the madame, for she sang it
] at a previous concert that she gave in
! Topeka and answered a demand for
! it's encore yesterday by its repetition.
Calm AS the Night also belonged to
| this group. and that. also, she sang
twice in Acknowledgement of the APP
prevail the audience evidenced at its
first rendering. 1t is a beautiful song
! that is frequently mutilated at we'd
dings by ambitious amateurs, who
usually discover all the ways in which
! it should not be sung.
To those who admire simplicity and
reticence and who value beauty of
| spirit more than they prize astonish-
! ing and sensational effect, Gadslxis in
must have appealed with all the force
OF an ideal realized.
| The last part Of the program was
devoted to Wagnerfan arias. These
are numbers on which Gadslsi's fame
chiefly rests, and they are the ones
in which she apparently feels much
, at home. The group consisted of an
aria from Tannhaeuser, "Dfch Teure
=; Halle;" Elsa's admonition to Ortrud,
from Lohengrin. and the spring song,
.sDu Dist der Lenz," from Die Wal
kuere. There is an unmistakable
-
the singers presence which is gra-
cious without being gushing and kind
~ without being patronizing.
| Gadski's voice is not f1awless. Two
| or three times in her recital yester-
day there was noticeable a slight
harshness in the tone that marred its
clarity. Still she is an artist of won
derful power and is ranked as one of
the greatest of the worlds singers
| She has voice that adapts itself to
many kinds and shades of vocal art,
and she directs it with facile skill and
intellectual power
AS an encore to her second group
Of songs she gave The Drum Song"
| by Taubert. and being again recalled
! she sang Lohr's Little Irish Girl"
| After her last number she was twice
called back, and everyone hoped
she would do, she sang the Walkuere
call.
Assisting Gadski yesterday was WAL
ter G. Charmbury He Is an accom-
PIANIST of the first order. and as a
solist he won the unstinted applause
of his audience He played a Chopin
Prelude and Etude and Rigoletto Pra-
aphrase, by Verdi-Liszt. His technique
| is remarkable and his style good.
TN. o.
| At the Z. N. O. George Washington