Article urging Emanuele Muzio to set text by an American soldier to appropriate music

     “American nationality in song,” Call upon Signor Muzio, “the most gifted of our Italio-American composers, to exhaust his art in setting this patriotic strain [by Private Miles O’Reilly, recently published in the Citizen and copied elsewhere] to appropriate music.  He has written exquisite melodies in behalf of Italian unity, and here a glowing opportunity presents itself for proving that his allegiance to the land of his adoption is not less inspired than his original fidelity to the beautiful and melodious land of his birth.”