The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-26

A musical event which has attracted
the interest of the musical lovers of
the city since its announcement is the
piano recital to be given by Sergei
Vassilievich Rachmaninoff at the Coli
scum Thursday evening, Feb. 2. In
his early forties and at the height of
his power, a commanding figure in the
world of music, Rachmaninoff makes
| his first appearance to Richmond audi
ences.
! An unprecedented rush for ticket
reservations took place when the plat
! for the Rachmaninoff concert was
opened at Fulghum's Victrola shop at
| 1870 o'clock Thursday morning Hun
dreds of persons gathering in an I'M
broken line streamed through the store
to reserve their tickets. At noon the
number of seats reserved was esti-
mated at over 500. The plat will be
open at the store every day now until
! the concert, but persons are advised
! to get their tickets and have them re-
served at once. as indications are that
| the Coliseum will be filled for the ia
nous composer-pianist' recital.
Has International Reputation
! ing composer of the Russian school
and has an international reputation
as a conductor, composer and pianist,
endowed with the genius of the artist
and the technical perfection of the
master.
AS composer for the piano, Rach-
maninoff is relatively a classicist Elk
amples are to be found in his compost
tions in which there is greater rugged
mess than in Brahms: sometimes he
surpasses the lyricism of Schumann
and is as tuneful as Mondelssohn.
Again there are instances of a leaning
| toward pure classicism, but his indi-
! viduality is best shown in the works
in which occur those heroic moments
which his popular preludes has led his
audiences to expect.
His music for the piano has done
much to raise Rachmaninoff to his high
place in America and in Europe. He
has written. besides. operas that are
well established in Russian lyric the
aires; a symphony-nis secondhand
a symphonic poem, The Isle of the
! Dead" both frequently heard and ap-
plauded in American cert halls: three
piano concertOs, and various miscel-
| laneous pieces for voices, orchestra
and groups of instruments.
once gets to discussing the pending
treaties that it will next to impossible
for the upper house to dispose of all
the important measures now piled up
on it. and continually pouring in from
the house, before the date of the pro
posed adjournment.
I Republican members of the senate
finance committee are now consider
ing various expedients for raising the
bonus fund. Foreign debt payments
can be used after about a year &C
cOrding to Senator McCumber, chair
man, and he believes that during the
} first year it will be necessary to raise
the money by taxation. He estimates
that the amount which will be re
: CURED the first year for adjusted com
: pensation payments will be about
) $300,000,000. Majority members of the
| finance committee now have experts
at work to G-termine how much mon
ey can be raised by increasing postage
to three cents, a tax on gasoline,
tax on bank checks and other direc
! tax l.ethods. However. the revenue
) pl:n TO finance the bonus must orig
( mate in the house. Thus far none O
7 the proposed plans can be regarded az
! settled.