Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1926, Page 27

« funereal as the music ITALIANS REJECT JAZZ WITH SCORN Spurn Idea That Weird Music Will Invade Home of Grand Opera. By the Associated Press. 5 ROME, April Ttaly, the home of grand opera, spurns with horror and contempt the idea that jazz may some day cross the thresholds of the Scala of '\h\s\n the San Carlo of Naples and »stanzi of Rome, as it has already tropolitan in New York. pired symphonic mu- armer reception in a rds jazz dance mu 1 d. ¢in a iuctant tourist's o, itertalning |h0m ln hotels Uspeak for most Ttallan musicians and music lovers of the younger gen eration in declaring that I adore Amer ivan jazz,” said Mario Cortl, most cel- ebrated violinist of Italy, professor at the Royal Academy of Santa Cecilla, und perhaps the most representative figure in the musical life of present- day Italy Not in Line With Tradition. “Wa love its vigor, its novelty, its gayety and freshness, but it is teo much from the path of our traditions to be fused with or into our music. Indeed, it presents a danger which we must avoid Stgnor Corti's polite mildness is in distinct contra with the violence of Pietro Masc author of “Cavalle. ria Rusti and authentic torch- bearer of the Verdian tradition of lyri- cal grand opera, who abhors jazz mu- slc so wholeheartedly that he is soon to go to the U State: an arch- crusader in a war st it “When 1 1 to howling, groaning, brutal noise making of a fazz band.” Signor Mascagni said, “it makes me unutterably ill. Especially the saxophone players who try to imi- tate the voice of the most ignoble ani l'nl.lfl ““Those dancers who, instead of mak- ing the -(ran:n steps which would be vith the pseudo-negro mu- hor slide about slowly They become more becomes more frenzied. Back to Strauss, He Says. of it and go back to who knew how to ic full of charm and e the work of cotemporane- lian composers does not appear to have been written with Signor Mas. cagnl's advice in mind, it still less shows the influence of the new Ameri- said Signor Corti, “does not 2 10 look to America for fuel for r musical genius. Far from being. poor in creative talent, the present generation in our country is furnish ing a real renaissance. Of the nine . leaders of this movement, not a sin- gle one has reached the ripe age of 50 ceral are in thelr early 30s, their work has already gained Pizzetti's Influence Cited. who is director of the Mi- | -vatory, has had enormous h in Ttaly and abroad as uer of the true Italian musi- flag of this perwd that we thought and time. 'ACTRESS WINS DIVORCE. Hilda Ferguson Granted Decree From Baltimore Doctor. BALTIMORE, April 16 (®).—ilde- garde Gibbons Ugarte, known on the stage as Hilda Ferguson, yesterday was granted an absolute divorce from Dr. Robert Belmont Ugarte by Chief Judge James P. Gorter in Clrcuit Court. The Ugartes were married at Towson, Md., in 1919. The actress is given custody of their one child, Emily Yolandu, 5 yvears old. In her LIli of complaint she charged her husband with beating and choking hor until members of her family inter- vened, cutiing her arms with a sti- letto, locking her in a room until her family broke the door down and lock- ing up her clothes so she could not get out. Bus Driver Fmed in Denth Spectal Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 15.—Rufus Smith, driver of one of the passenger busses operating here, has been fined $500 for manslaughter in using the death of Carl Rostrup, well known illustrator and decorator, Smith is charged by the police with having run into a machine operated by Rostrup in February. 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