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Show I AMERICAN BAYREUTH PLANNED I Mine. Lillian Nordlcu will cstnbllHli on the r S-ll Tl Hudson, near Now York, a Hayreuth In America. jTC 1 With a. part of her great fortune the noted singer faffi? will erect tho Lllllnn Nordlca Festival house, WS!r which will bo to this country what tho famous "S-'i oporntlc Institution founded by llcbnrd Wngnor, ifefetV'' ' I and now maintained by his widow. Is to ICproixi. y 7jJ? o!3fi't IrSI Tim slto ror tho lnstiutlon was purchased re- QeKJrt& tll contly ror $100,000, and Mmo. Nordlca expects ?ffiw&h that tho opara houso will bo ready ror Its formal ; , fi" P SW dedication 0110' year from next summer. "" ' V-g ' i)Ef An American Instltuto of music, whoro Aner- v' Mfj Jcnn young men anil women who aspire to Opbr- ---t'whs. IVM "nllc iionors will bo tnught by tbo foremost tench- WM' em In tho vor!d, Ib Included In tho plans of tho v ' famous slngor. In u statement In which sho nn- V 'if'.,' 'nouiiced lujr plans, Mine. Nordlca cald: ' ' ' 11 ' ' "Call my object plillanihioplc or what you may, but the Idea or round- l$i,r Ing hero In my own coinitiy tin Araorlcun Hnyreuth, has been my lire's am- K-:i bltlon. All tlio years I hnvo been singing 1 ave dreamed .of. such an Institu. Jik -, tl(ijt. Now I nm nblo financially to start ' 4 - int proJocLwhliih I know will ' ' r-i b.jljiu Inntltjitlon which, niter t nm dead ' eoulntlU to j?iow nnd oullghteu ' AXnyoiioo .ot thin-copntiy, who nio now u .ultb, ,.ift- o tbo beiiellts to hh do- .ilvod twm a mublcal edutntlon such us wa not dreamed of ton years ngo. Iiir ':li this plan of mine I am fissured or tho hoarty cooperation or liifn and Wdinyn or wonlth. . The latter yearn or my llfo I hope to' glvo entirely to see,. . K.rx iui; this gvent Institution grow until II. can havo no rival. ' Xtk "Tho bulldliifss thut will l)c a part of tho American Institute) or Musla f??i!l alono will cover fcuc ncros. Thc-y will be erected close to tho Lillian Nordlca mMfr Pentlvnl house. In connection with tho Institute thoro will bo dormllorlcB IB and houses whoro the itiulonts at llttlo ox pen ho will bo nblo to live whllo puriiiiluK their msulcnl ntudlee, "iiuropo v;Ill (ontrlbuto tcuchein, nud they will bo paid for their tturvlcca more tbuu they can hope to cam abroad. Tho l llllnn Noullca Ftatlul hauBo will bo In cvory way nn exact ro- 'H pro'tuctlon of tb" thenter ereiU'il by Rlelmrd Wugtier. Tho Wngnor operas wtr bo ulven thoio in the sumtwr YflrJi the sreatest nitists in tho world." |