Show mUH inn in-n w 2 9or t I 0 Perhaps there In no corner of the world that has not heard the Inter merso of Cavallerla llustlcaim which brought early In May IS O 1 the young Italian composer Mascapnl Into Instant fame Mascagrl belongs to the younger Italian school of composers others of the same school who are beat known In American are Leoncavallo composer of TPagllaccI and Puccini composer of Ija Bohcmc and Toc ca Even In Italy Maccagnl 1 was unknown to his fellowcountrymen but In Home the triumph of his opora grew steadily stead-ily and then from nil parts of Europe people hastened to wpplaud the new maestro tp to this lime ho had been a leader of an Insignificant provincial band lie Is I not yet 50 but It has been given to few men to know life as Mascagnl has known It II j Buffered the pangs of starvation for months while waiting for recognition and when ft rune he squandered money Indulging his most fantastic whims millionaire for a mo monl only I to be plunged Into financial difficulties He was born of poor parents In Leg horh and was sent to the Conservatory in Milan the goal In Italy for all budding bud-ding geniuses As a student he dis played no exceptional talent and was never palled nn Infant prodigy Miipcngnl 1 was always of a naturally happy disposition and laughed at misery mis-ery lie lived from hand to mou h giving vocal lemons I for 20 cents an hour writing military marches for country bands polkas for street orgunn and accepting engagement as orchestra leader for Ihlrdclns theaters in small towns rho star of better days rose on his Horizon when after severe privations he signed a contract ns orchestra lead er of an opera company at the liberal I salary of 60 cents a day Mmcagnln meeting with his wife was one of the most lomnntlc episodes In his life and It Is said that no one wan ever 110 zealous a protector of genius as i Signora Masrignl It Is not generally known thot Cat allcrla Kustlrana wits not the first opera op-era Mascagnl 1 composed bu Lan op < ra called Vertllla th story of which Is laid In ancient Rome It Is nnld that Mascagnl will take up thin early work soon nnd give It the llnlflhlng touches In 1SRS an open competition was offered 1 of-fered by the music publisher Son zogno for a oneact music drama Mascagnl reading the notice applied to his friend Tozzcltl for a libretto TozzcttI wrote It I from n sketch taken from n book of Slelllan short stories by G ViTga one of Italys foremost writers Veslllla was laid aside anti the new opera PavaUcrlsi Rustlcimu composed In a I few months Awarded the first prize Mascagnl became celebrated cele-brated forever Honors followed Immediately Im-mediately on the success of the opera and after a performance of Caval I Ieili Runtlcana In Home he was presented pre-sented to Gulscppo Verdi and the King of Italy who knighted him and ho was lionised everywhere Mii cuBnrn reception when he reached l New York exceeded In warmth that of any foreign musician who ever came to thoiie whores The composer Miyp that of nil the ovations he has ifolcd since the first production of his masterly Cavnllerln that In New York was the largeat The entire Italian Emhii sy came from Washington to New York to be present at the Metropolitan oponi house at the rtrht performance In America of Cavallirrla Runtlcana and Xanetto conducted by their composer Pletro Mascngnl How much greater his success would have been had he come under the m management man-agement of Maurice Grau and with him presented his operas dining the regular opera seasonlt Is no longer the tailor that makes the mini It IK the man gerbut coming os he did I with novorganised orchestra ehorua or stars he yet succeeded In producing I an effect with Cavallirla Iluotlcana I such MS has niv r before been heard In this city And we then learned In I this tommy what they are able to do In Europe when they give performances Je of opera without star Mascagnl In 11 line composer but he Is a great conductor bringing out effects ef-fects In his compositions and tInS t-InS them In a way which made the orchestral or-chestral parts greater to us Hum they hud ever been before Mascagnis threoact opera Iris was produced at the Metropolitan operahouse October Ifith after many difficulties 1 was announced for October OC-tober 9th but at that lime the company com-pany did not know the voice parts and t the orchestra stumbled over the score So rehearsals were continued The company went to Philadelphia and on Tuesday evening October Itlh to the surprise of the Qiirtlcirs Iris was performed for the first time In A rAh rA-h iris wan first dven In Rqmo Sn November of ISPS and did not meet with very great favor PO rhe com l ocr Ilt about and revised I The mended i rlol was produced In Milan and was lan the following January til hardly more successful than the original orig-inal The story Is enacted by Japanese chaiactera under thc shadow of KuJI I vamn the wellknown mountutn of Japan I Is a tale f > t choral sun a I childlike maiden and n Inpane roue r Its muslo IR ppcclacular hut not In the cast Japanese or even the TniEKCfltrtMi of I but the continues and ncoulo effects ef-fects uru entirely of picturesque Jnan NOTES At the Now York College of Muplc the Cercle Franca on October 20th tendered to Raoul Pugno the > eminent French pianist a large reception The opening Concert of the season at Carnegie Car-negie hall came the following evening when Pugno gave his first concert with orchestral accompaniment under the baton of Walter Damrosch1 j hr plans for the season of grand opera at the Metropolitan arc being completed There will be sixtyeight performances omlcld or fiftyone nights and seventeen matinees to be given during the period of seventeen weeks beginning begin-ning Novmbcr 2lib Y Y It is I stated though not announced that Grieg will make ah American tour with Mrs James Brown Potter In works of his ow composition on tho order of Richard Straunss Enoch Ar deij j Mile Zelle de Lu san and Her An droaB DIppel who will each make tours this Beacon full for America tho lat ter part of thin month fur their flrrat r appearance In a Joint lerjtal ar Newark N L on November 7th after which theyboth I make tours us far west ao tho Pacific coast Daniel Frojimnn opens his season ot Sunday night concerts at the M tro j polltnn November 2nd when Githrllo wltHch wilt make his first etYork appearance this season Miss Elizabeth Klncello formerly soprano prano pololl in the Cathedral Salt SnIt Lake City Utah has accepted a similar position In the Church of the Holy Trinity hero In New York Roland Paul the Denver tenor has ictlled In Chicago Richard C Kay the American violin lat I gives recital I at Mindclsoohn hull s November llth He will be assisted by 1 Caroline Monlofore soprano and Ihix Llebllng at the piano HETTA C RIVERS J |