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Show GREAT COiMPOSER HERE Noted English Musician Will Produce Works in New York. NEW YORK. April 16. Sir Edward Elgar, the English composer, arrived In Now York yesterday on the steamer Celtic. He-comes to America to can-duct can-duct lils uli;Vtat"a,'TheDre"am of'Geron-tiua," of'Geron-tiua," and his oratorio, "The Apostes," at the May music festival in Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. "The Dream of Gerontlus" has been produced once at the Cincinnati festival, fes-tival, but "Tho Apostes," which has had a few hearings in America, will be produced pro-duced there for the first time. Will Make Long- Stay. Sir Edward and Lndy Elgar were met at the pier by Prof. Sanford of Yale, whoso guests they will bo during their stay In New York. They expect to -return to England about the middle mid-dle of May. "I am not a stranger to America." said Sir Edward. "I have been here before, and have so many friends that it seems like coming home. In fact, I am more at homo here than anywhere else. I am in thorough sympathy with the modern life, the hustle and briskness brisk-ness of your life." |