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Show : ; ; : ' ; : : : t. V. : : ' ' v :. .:: ; '. '$ : : : . , , I " ' " c-' :; ; ' ' : i . 11 . " : IIj ..a ia Lc 4. ... i- i 1 " w ", T -- -'' T 1 ' ( ... J. ..-. ' 7 ll a, - - f , . 5 4fc r.r.tiv? ff . ;rr. L,.:.?. I-; r:.:h:r vcs' Er.:!::h. II- tl::::- 1 I! v; V.n, entered tl? r.oyal Celiac- cf :e ia 1" ft;:.:':; J cc;c :t:ca v.ith Stanford end took t!.o Crit i:i 1 . v.!.?a cnly 13 ycsrs tf re. lie 1.25 v. riltca a r; r ;L"ry in A miner; a nc-ct fcr I ."r.r, ttrir;; cr. 3 vi-J; a daricnet qn.ntrt ia F miner; a f trir;; ;".artct ia D miner; ballad la D miner for vic'Ja end crchcztra; a piano an J i lia tcnata; za crd.Ca.traI trait e; r.a orchestral pre-1 lude; tallade ia A minor for orchestra; Incidental music to Herod; church jzziic, ecr3. piano piece3 and violin coiapcrltior.s. Ilia fatae rests chicly upon bis wo:!;s ca "Hiawatha," which are as follows; fol-lows; "Hiawatha's WeddiEg Feast' "Death of alinnehaha"' and "Hiawatha's Departure." He ah?a wrote the musical setting to "The Soul's Expression," Expres-sion," four sonnets fry Mrs. Browning. His work ia a marvelous record for a young nan of less than 23, and still more so from facts, which surround the romance ro-mance of Ills life. His parentage Is clouded in mystery mys-tery . ' . ' ' Lcr.;-a's Mzcd Idol Is a Neo. ' While American philanthropists are striving to solve the race problem of the South the announce- ment comes from England that the new musical ' idol of London is a negro. S. Coleridge Taylor is the central figure in this situation, which in some quarters would almost challenge belief. Not only Is Taylor the musical idol of London, but of England, Eng-land, and although the romance of his life his existence ex-istence and his rise to fame :is one that hardly terns that it can have been, he is admired, hailed end feted in the greatest city in the world. And not in England alone does "his fame rest, for Coleridge Taylor's writings are known in America and valued here, too, for their great musical worth, a fact that was ia evidence when the St Cecilia society of Boston, Bos-ton, one of the most famous musical organizations .in this country, produced his greatest work, "Hia-Tath.i.'' "Hia-Tath.i.'' It is a fact, too, that i his masterpiece is Uzzl?3. ca an American subject and that the musical musi-cal cutting .to what. many, people consider Longfellow's Longfel-low's most beautiful poem, "Hiawatha," is the rock ccn vrhich his reputation rests in this country and cue cf the fctaiichicns'upon which the structure of V i fzize rcrta in Erland. It is t?aid that he may f : :i yhlt A:::ica to personally direct some of hi3 |