Arizona republican., 1918-01-21
(By Charles Frederick Carlson)

Leopold Godowsky. the musical magician and wizard of the keyboard has come and gone, leaving the peo- pie Of Phoenix who heard him the better for having been so elated, ele- vated and instructed. But he is not to be considered altogether as mu- sical technologist or a master of phy- sical appaTati, human mechanical wonder. or tone builder of placid architectural exactness. While he IS all this, he is also much more. He is an artist as pianist; of this in strument he is a supreme master. but he is more than a master Of an ln- strument, he is a master of musical art lie has accomplished all that is known to humanity in musical art, as far as understanding is concerned. If there is more to be learned in this field of musical beauty it has yet to be discovered, so that he may learn it and absorb it in it's fullness.
 One is at a loss to know what com poser he interprets best, or what composition he gets the most beauty out of. for it seems that he does all that could be desired in everything he plays and interprets. With his colossal musical understanding and under his touch, music becomes a newly spoken language, an apparition that is audible yet intangible, but in the end luminary and concrete. He evokes from the printed page the composers attention, the messas. caught from out the universal bowl by the tone-poet who wrote it down to be voiced He enters the tonal realm with the apostles of perfected sound and reads the divine message as one inspired as one in authority. I have heard him continually all most from the beginning of his pianistic career. First in Chicago m 1896 and on down through the years and when I heard him in Vienna Tn ! 1908, l knew that he had come into | his own, fully. I remember him in l the prairie city, a pale. delicate llttie man with his white farn hlack mus l tache and unassuming attitude, gly- 1 ing recitals at the Auditorium Re | cital hall at which mostly students were anxious to attend, and later when he began to attract the laymar but this after years of prodigiou' study and constant practice. Al first he was hailed as q technical wonder. but now as a musical mas | has been good to him, for he has developed in mind and body. as ht has developed in music, and today looks the picture of health and the genius he is.
 When other great pianists will say that they have learned from Godow- sky, and that all can learn from him we have an admission that mean: much It is significant of the fact that he has surpassed his colleagues and made them, by intrinsic scien- tific and artistic musical value, admit the truth--it is the art-truth, whicf they have gained, that causes then to speak ungrudgingly, because ar is truth.
 If one should point out, or attempt to, musical things Godowsky did no do in his recital Saturday night January 19, it would only be strain ing to show scholarship. and would be a breach of critical ethics. There is so much he did do. that we car only remember it all as a thing O joy, a moment of tonal revelry, al inviolable hour in which we wer, vincible, wholly given over to tn, domain of entertainment, leading tt the kingdom of the esthetic
 His program was chosen and plan ned with that keen artistic insigh characteristic of the little wonde ening of music for the pano,one O contrast, for all his numbers were S, arranged that one felt that the.