The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-02-13
WORLDS GREATEST MUSICIAN
PLAYS FOR NEW EDISON.
A u Il.

One of the mot significant an
nouncements of recent years for the
music world is that the art of Sergei
Rachmaninoff is now RE-CREATED
by the New Edison. Sergel Rach-
mammoth, composer, conductor and
pianist, is the most commanding fig
ure in the world of music today. The
art Of no musician of recent years has
been so widely commented on, SO
warmly praised, and so information
ally admired as has been that Of this
gifted Russian artist.
Rachmaninoff has been termed the
prince of musicians" the musician
magnificent" and "the giant among
composers of our time"
Recently, The Etude, one Of the
most authoritative Of leading musical
magazines, issued Rachmaninoff
number with this editorial comment.
"This is the first issue which has
ever been devoted in great part to a
living composer, a Rachmaninoff is
sue. Editorial binoculars often look
far into the distance, but cannot even
focus upon men and things nearby.
'That we have now, residing in
America a great master, one who in
future years will stand out on the
pages Of history, as stood his great
predecessors, is In itself an honor
we should not. ignore.
mot since Rubinstein visited
America has any European composer
pianist of the stature of Sergei Rach-
mammoth been with us. Simple, sin
cere earnest, intense, granite in
strength, yet fern-like in delicacy, the
works Of Rachmaninoff rank with the
great music of all time"
An exile from Russia where he lost
his fortune during the revolution,
Rachmaninoff is now being welcomes
in America as the most eminent of all
living musicians. His reputation as
conductor, composer and pianist is in
tenational. His recent reluctant re-
fusal to accept the post Of conductor
of the Boston symphony Orchestra,
more strongly focused the attentio7
OF American musicians on him. Rach-
mammoth declined this enviable po
sition as leader of the greatest or
ganization, probably, of its kind in
the world, only because of other plans
and obligations. At one time he was
chief conductor of the Imperial Opera
and conductor of the philharmonic
Society of Moscow, Russia.
| LISTS noted Second Hungarian
Rhapsodie" and Scarlatti-Tausig's
"Pastorale'' are the first Rachmani-
noff Re-CREATIONS issued for the
New Edison. 4
These RE-CREATiONS display the
wonderful sweep of Rachmaninoff's
imagination, the magnificence OF his
mastery of the piano, the nobility Of
his nusicianship.
Franz List, dreamer, mystic and
pianist Incompatible, aimed to per
petuate the music Of the Gypsies in
the Rhapsodies. The Second Hunga-
the virtuoso, rather than List, the
composer.
In his Interpretation for the New
Edison, Rachmaninoff, the musician
perfect, the artist supremacy sympa-
thetic, the virtuoso without living
peer, assumes the mart
pianist brilliant and Originally and
incomparably interprets the soul and
reveals the heart ofsthe Second Hun
garian Rhapsodie."
Rachmaninoff has interpolated his
own cadenza, pregnant in brilliancy
but deeply sober in it's Cossack strain,
in passing in the "Rhapsodie," from
the lassan, or. slow section, with its
Incidence of the gypsy East, and
harems, to the friska, or quick sec
ton, vibrating with the dash and
vigor of the Magyar peasant dance;
| and pulsating with the throbbing of
the velvet throated chimes of the
Hungarian desert-winding caravans.
In both the 'Rhapsodie" and the
Tausiu. Rachmaninoff is pre-e1r1iuent
in his crispness, his crystallic clear
ness of technique and in his finished
execution The deep personality Of
the poetic genius surges through his
every Interpretation whether as plan
list, composer or conductor
Music lovers come in and hear
thess ut Bardeen's.