Show LIllIAN NORDICA R Will EST A IN AMERI NEW YORK June 5 Madame 5 Madame Lillian Lillian Lil Lil- lian Nordica the Herald announces announces today today today to to- day will establish on the Hudson near New York a Bayreuth Bayre th in America Am rica With a a. part of h her r great eat o fortune ne the noted singer will erect the Lillian Nordica Nordica Nordica Nor Nor- Nori i dica Festival house which will will- willbe be to this this' country what the famous operatic institution founded by R Richard hard Wagner and now maintained by his widow is to Europe The site for the institution was purchased purchased pur pur- ar- ar chased yesterday for and Madame Ma May dame Nordi Nordica a expects that the he opera opera- house will be ready for its formal dedication dedication dedi dedi- c cation tion one year from next summer An American institute of music where American young young men and women who wh aspire to operatic honors will be taught by br the foremost teachers in inthe the I world world is included in the plans of the famous singer In a statement in which she announced her plans Madame Nordica Nordica Nor Nor- dica said Call Gall my mv object philanthropic or what you may may but the idea of fou founding din dinI American can canI I here in my own country an Amer Bayr Bayreuth has as been m my lifes life's ambition I All the years I have have been sin singing hi I II I 1 i have bave dreamed of such an institution Now Nowr I am able financially to start this great project great reat project which I r know will be an institution which after I am am dead will continue to grow and enlighten nI the the people people people peo- peo peo peo- of this country who are now awakening awakening awak awak- enin ening to the tho benefits to be derived from froma a musical education such as was not 1 dreamed of ten years years' ago I In In this plan of mine I am assured I of the hearty co operation co-operation of men and andI I women o of wealth The latter years of my life I hope to give vee entirely to tb seeing this great reat institution grow until it can I have no rival Worlds World's Greatest Teachers The buildings s that will be a part or oft of th the American institute of music alone will cover four acres They willbe will willbe be erected close to the Lillian Nordica Festival houseIn house In connection with the institute there will be dormitories and houses where the students students' at little expense will be able to live while pursuing their musical studies s. s Europe will contribute teachers and they will be paid for their services s smore more than han they can hope to earn abroad The The Lillian Nordica Festival house will be in every way an exact reproduction re reproduction ro rod d of the theater teater theat r erected erected-by erected b by Richard Richand Rich Rich- ard and Wagner The Wagner operas will willbe willbe be given ghen there in the summer with the greatest artists in the world I |