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MARCH 10,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1923
35
TMENT
THE AMP1C0 INJBUFFALO CONCERT
With Philip Gordon and Eleanor Whittemore
Instrument Is Featured in Interesting Pro-
gram That Arouses Enthusiasm of Audience
BUFFALO, N. Y., March 5.—Philip Gordon, the
brilliant American pianist; Eleanor Whittemore,
violinist, and the Ampico were presented by
Goold Bros., Inc., Buffalo music retailers, in
concert in the Twentieth Century Club hall
recently. Similar concerts had been given at
the Better Homes Exposition in the Hutchinson
High School. The Ampico showed its great
possibilities in both solo and accompaniment
numbers and the large audience showed keen
interest and vigorously applauded both the
human artists and the Ampico.
Mr. Gordon played the "Apassionata" sonata
of Beethoven in its entirety and Liszt's tran-
scription of the Tannhauser overture. In Cui's
"Orientale," portions were played by the Am-
pico from his recording.. The marvels of the
Ampico were proven in this number, for only
by watching Mr. Gordon and seeing the move-
ment of his fingers stop could one tell that it
was not his own hands playing.
The G Minor prelude, by Rachmaninoff, in
which the Ampico gave out the composer's
record with much blending of tone and clarity,
which in Rachmaninoff's playing is of distinct
quality, proved of especial interest to the audi-
ence and the number received a great deal of
applause.
Miss Whittemore's program consisted of sev-
eral difficult numbers. She won the favor
of her audience with her full, clear tone and
excellence of intonation. She was recalled for
several additional, solos. The Ampico again
proved its powers by playing all the violin
accompaniments.
G0D0WSKY SCORES IN THE ORIENT
Noted Pianist Wins High Praise From Critics
Following Concert Appearances in China—
Using the Knabe Piano Exclusively on Tour
Leopold Godowsky, brilliant pianist and Am-
pico artist, is piling up fresh triumphs in the
Orient on those he has already achieved in
Europe and America. The noted Polish com-
poser and interpreter has been playing in the
principal cities of Japan and China and has
not only attracted large audiences, but has won
much praise from the critics. The fact that
he uses an American instrument, the Knabc
piano exclusively in his concerts is interesting.
The impression that Mr. Godowsky has made
upon the critics of the Orient may be judged
from the following comments appearing in the
North-China Daily News:
"Imagine flocks of nightingales let loose sim-
ultaneously; combining therewith every lovely
sound and lovely color in nature; one has the
image of Mr. Godowsky's playing."
Speaking later of Mr. Godowsky's instrument,
a Knabc, which accompanied the player every-
where through the cold and hardships of mid-
Winter in the Orient, the reviewer says: "One
realizes that the piano has a voice, a soul, that
it is capable of infinite sadness and irresistible
laughter of the colors of a sunset and the har-
mony of the spheres."
The Shanghai Evening News, finds as much
rhapsody possible concerning this same pro-
gram played by Mr. Godowsky. "The violin,'
says its critic, "may be the nearest approach
to pure music we know, and the human voice,
the perfect musical instrument Shakespeare
thought it, but for the combination to express
in pure music the hopes and fears, mistakes and
passions, the very keynote of a civilization, Go-
dowsky's piano, it seems to me, ranks supreme.
Surely," continues this critic, "the large num-
bers of people with artistic appreciation in the
Far East have reason to be grateful to this
master."
The China Press, Thursday, December 28,
speaks of the "exquisite mastery" of Mr. Go-
dowsky's playing, "with wonderful technique
and with what was undoubtedly a most perfect
and sympathetic translation of the composer's
intent. His interpretation of the Beethoven so-
nata, with which the program opened, made
that great man's harmonic thought seem to the
hearers never to have been so fully expressed.
The Chopin items were no less wonderfully
given."
"A memorable evening," the Shanghai Mer-
cury called it. "Such glittering brilliance of
execution, exquisite touch and phrasing made
one feel the presence of a real great master at
the piano. His natural and quiet composure
throughout the evening, even in the greatest
technical difficulties, was admirable. What les-
ser artists would be afraid of seemed as though
it was nothing to Mr. Godowsky, as he played
with absolute confidence. Such a thing as tech-
nical difficulties does not seem to exist when
Mr. Godowsky plays. His fresh interpretations
with every note a meaning kept one absolutely
bewildered."
The Shanghai Times, the same day, tells this:
"Moods of many variations in the diversified
excerpts were interpreted with an uncanny mas-
ter touch by Godowsky as the audience sat with
their eyes focused on his swaying form, bend-
ing and stiffening, while his fingers coaxed the
wonderful music from the instrument, some-
times in -sparkling and scintillating tone and at
other times in sad mood."
These are but a few of the appreciations the
noted pianist has received.
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