New-York tribune., 1901-04-07

Bennett. W. II. Macdonald. OF the Bostonans. and
A. Y. Cornell. Public performances given
monthly. that managers may have oppor-
tunity TO see what the school IS accomplishing.
Nine students have received places so far this
son with some OF the best known companies.
Scenes will be presented from Faust" Carmen"
''Cavalleria Rusticana," "Pinafore' and The
Mikado" in costume. The performance will be
under the stage direction OF George Paxton. who
for several seasons one Of Edward Rices
forces The students who will take part Maria
Strakosch Ruth PEBBLES, Helen Somers Kerr,
Katherine Colvln Ellen Devlne. Iver Anderson.
Allen c. Hincldey. Andreas Schneider De Witt
Mott. w. II. Wheatley. f. d. Johnson and NJ S.
Holmes. David Bispham will deliver the address
and present the diplomas.
Writing in The International Monthly" Mas
cagni pays a tribute to the dead master Verdi in
the of which he says
In the music Of Verdi men and things always find
q mirror among the dear and familiar melodies
there is which does reflect a rcmem-
brance JOY, sorrow or an incident of some kind;
for II is music which corresponds marvelousIy
TO human feelings, it Is music which reproduces
ideally the life and thus the enthusia sIn emo
ton and great popularity which accompany his
To Italians however the music Of the great mas
ter should represent more than it does to other
Verdi, his expression OF sentiment and his powerful
genius. which continued and renewed musical art
ought TO fix their gaze beyond that universal and
spontaneous enthusiam even beyond legitimate
art had during period of more than sixty Years
1t mission dOubly holy, because his thoughts
turned solely, ana with intensity, toward the
affirmation of Itaiiansm UtaliantAD both in Doli-
patriotism Of Verdi because there is no e 6na S 6 oI
does not know what a fascination his songs eXer-
cised those oppressed people who panied for
the day of deliverence. But 1 pause TO CON
slider that Italiansm in music which he defended
and supported up TO the end OF his long existence
and which is abandoned to an unknown fotn
The maestro felt intensely that his art was mon
aced and at first, he had received the inheri-
tance of his three great predecessors and con
tinued that stupendous period which was as short
II was marvellous, so, aftcrward he felt himself
called upon TO revindcate the national music and
he did defend and support it, only by word buf
by his works. which marked ever Increasing
ascension. providence had endowed him with such
strong fibre. both of body and mind that his mis-
sion able to exercise its noble influence ia the
greatest extent. The public though acknoyIed. .nf-
the origin of the first works of Verdi We're os3n e
ished their melodous waves. clear and yibrot
ing and still more at their marked and vivacious
There were even some who protested against his
kind of music so crude and coarse the Great ~
a rude and uncultured genius. "
1t was, the contrary the fury of genius which
burst impetuously and tumultuously from the great
soul Of the composer. and it was perhaps the
voice of the people. which, uEconsciously in III
sincerity of musical expression preceded coming
events. So true is IT, that when later the days ~
trouble came and when the Italians in their tiro a
ideal TO reanimate their weary spirits some han
which would show them the way of hone then
that music. which with it's vivacity its hardnass
its violence, able TO inspire new Courala ir
every heart. to lead the troubled people to victory
and to rouse such patrctc enthusiasm as to gIorif,
and mmortalize the name of Verdi as n svmhoi -
the resurrection OF Italy . Through the wboIa
OF his life during the long period rendered famos
by his productions. he always sincerely anS
admirably Italian However the artistic nissinr
OF the maestro had not reached its end. Young
hope in their first steps Alas his great drea -, NJ
1T to be realized The young ones had taken the