| Show COMPOSER VERDI PASSES AWAY t R 5 9 l t tAh Au Ah I I have sighed to ret rest nie me The Immortal Verdi Is no mr more this intelligence Is flashed over overtime time the world through If at minds mind wi will run time the immortal loag song tr from which the above b is taken the Ail Ah Che I La Morte from the scene In InI I 11 Trovatore J It Is perhaps not I say In lag to too much to 10 SA say that no en song tha that was u ever er rendered In oprA opera hA has been oner oftener mor more generally admired than this How man many times the opera Olra of I Ii has ben been sung uns since It Wi was written perhaps n no noone one une could say but that number old woOld b be a mere tithe of this times It hu has b been rendered on the concert and andin nd In and drawing f rooms erdis tUI as a composer might er ery well rt Test unon 1 hl alone but his extraordinary wealth of musical lt at ll is 18 well Illustrated b by the tact fact thAt he wrote many oth operas al ai almost mot most A as and rank dO close to I II Trovatore In and such work A Lm Lam Lambard barl bard I A Ball At Attila tila Aids AldR Ottlo and 1 all have hae recognised places In time the HU esti of musicians The last opera Ollera by the great mAlte monster was 8 Pal Ial staff produced wih with Victor Mauve In the tt title roll role Verdi was tile the In son of at An Inn kUr and nd WI was brn burn At In Inthe time the or of ParmA Italy Haly Ot Oct 8 11 1 lie received his lessons from an organist In Milan IIAn 11 Ills Iret work was wa a musical drama Oberto dl di San but time opera brought him fame wa was hi lila from which the noble PIlgrims Ch Chorus e so ofte often sun sung b by our Tabernacle choir II is taken HIl His le life was given Iven up tu to and hI ime wrote incessantly for almost 70 years Hi II was waa elett elected a member ot of th the J Italian lf parliament In and WAS appointed to lod lead the Italian Musical In Institute stute at Fo Florence n In isi tl AI mot most every country In Europe lied had of distinction upon hIm and th the viceroy or of I Egypt rpt on the of Aids Ald appoInted him one of the Orde Order ot of THE TIU OF THE MORTAL VERDI To the tho Editor Ye Yes lo lot inc Ine ret rest for m my soul Is wear nM So sings tile the imprisoned gypsy In I Ii 8 So sang ng the immor ml soul Hul In I its earthly prison And nd at last laRt the wO harp Is hushed to mortals the fingers that wih with a pen made their m Audible to io a charmed world for tor nearl nearly eighty years lG are Paradise greets reels the lie re return tur turn or of Is its Trovatore after hi brief pJ pilgrimage to earth And nd yet nol aol The divine sul soul is I not even hushed to mon mar montaut taut Verdi I is not not even In the ordinary HU di dead to 10 the millions who 10 love hint only to the few fortnat fortunate on ones who hi his actual bl budhi presence i is there the any change TIme re gret groat porton portion ot or the man maD hI his wonderful sow OUI of melor melody I Is even too today vibrating un In every ever of the globe The Verdi erdl I learned to love so 10 intensely when A Ani ni 0 ho Is II lUl still young and fair Ito sating with Ith lIfe right I here re with me In Inthe inthe the person n ot of hll I Ii L La Traviata and imd hi his Immortal Ida tIda Idao Nos o as s then I tan can wander to time the Ilent silent nok nook bk book In hand and lie he sins ini for forIt forIn It In playing upon the sympathetic chords chord ot of my may emotion until m my ey eyes ar are moistened my heart throbbing warmly In Unison wih with his hll story tO of hop hope Jo Joy or Ir sorrow as he be sings on pIe page aler alter pap ia tr from the fret first awaken aen nr ng or of hove tove to the departure of the soui loul the ent end of time the bookfor the present True Tru I neve never finished the bk book without a mental visit to the far aay a mInstrel In iii sunny IRly mental grateful look as It Ir Into the of him who had touched the strings ad and set let them Into Ilch vibration that I and amid all I th tile world orld hear I alight her still til do 8 so And alays wi will what matters fatte I it that now I J see a vault a pt plane of a pAlace and a grden garden T To time metal mental Vision IBon both ar are alike lk to ins e 1 tea I mortal In both would have been alike inaccessible for were I there I never would have han dar dared to intrude upon hIl his presence In either S So wh who II dea dead to Ie me Not the Verdi that I hAve known he lives even n on erth earth amul like Q a dear er bosom frend friend still tl Il sings to me In m uty room In time te Iuen t time canyon or tire the al as I wi will h he accompanies mt me le lie wh who only enjoys th the theair erl C Mr air II in public blo w when hen he be ii sn singing to everybody erI t scarcely knoW knows the f joy nf of that title clOr bk book j gives Those who tho prefer It may b be bor born to be ald and enjoy pomp glory and h lmae their memory or left leH u as gret gretI great I queen has hal done lut limit could I ha imae m my chole choice and 11 had I ambition I would be the minstrel that Verdi was wal who lef left th the un undying the ral real vial vital living sounding on down tb the a ages t to cheer ennoble anI and uplift wih with I it of the Inner higher Ufe lit t to companion and nd bless A as a living thing thO lull souls attuned tune to It its I harmonies while thy they sojourn here berl II in a lowler lowlier existence th the laurel wreath TU of the theauthor theauthor author because U ot of I it fruIt fruits Im seems to toI tome I me tar far mon more precious than th the aisil medros crown Such luch wealth fW b be time tribute I wol would In lay upon t tt r xe lg ipg B t of f IR t rb ou r BV EVAN AN I Sal gaIt Lake Lako city Olty Utah Jan S |
