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Show HE'S flUTHOn Alt'D LIDHETTiST, TOO zswaa-anaswa.s.msafnxea-a- " ' ' Leoncavallo, Vho Is -to Ap-, Ap-, pear in Salt Lalle, Writes the Text of His Own Operas. Like Richard Wagner, Leoncavallo, the Italian composer, is his own librettist;. libret-tist;. The text of his great triology, "II Medici" reveals that he is at once poet and a composer, and the dramatic drama-tic force of "Pagliacci" proves that its author would have made a name for himself as a dramatist even had the gift of musical composition been denied him. '. In addition - to his creative gifts, Leoncavallo is - an interpreter of bo mean qualities. In his younger daya he . was successful as a concert pianist, and his mastery of the great orchestra from - La Scala in Milan, which is accompanying accompany-ing him on hia tour of this country, has . demonstrated what a great gift he possesses pos-sesses as a musical director. Leoncavallo 'a mental and artistic in-" in-" JT-tance on both sides is distinguished, ."i Mther, Cava Mere Vincenzo Leon-i'TaFlo, Leon-i'TaFlo, was an Italian judiciary and aXhielted celebrity as the president of the iiygh Court of Justice. His mother, Vigitti d'Aurion, was the daughter of .a famous Neapolitan painter, many of whose canvases now hang in the royal palace in Leoncavallo 's native city. The composer's musical education be-. be-. pan at 8 years of age. Eight years . later he received his diploma from the -. Naples conservatory, where he studied 'composition under Serrao and De Piam-Cessi. Piam-Cessi. . Before leaving the conservatory, - ; the bov had completed a cantata which gave aWndant prophecy of the remarkable remark-able work he was yet to accomplish. At 16 Leoncavallo, entered the Uni- ' . versity of Bologna, ' the mother , of universities), " and here he came 'directly 'di-rectly under the formative influence of the great Italian poet CorduccL Here be received the degree of Doctor of Let-tersr Let-tersr and at 20 started out into the trorld, having laid, substantial foundations founda-tions for the literary and musical career that lay before him. Leoncavallo will appear at the Tabernacle matinee and night November 29. Tickets on sale at Clayton's music store. Monday at 10 8 'clock. , - |