| Show AUDIENCE ENRAPTURED BY A NEW QUEEN OF SONG Marvelous Voice of Emma Lucy Gates Heard Hea d at atthe atthe atthe the Uth Girl Who is s Destined to Eclipse the Worlds World Most Famous amous Singers CTRL stepped Jn JR ont nt of aa a p A ace enee In the tM tabernacle evenIng even evenIng Ing and sang ng Greater Grer mode was ws never heard in ht modern times She sang aag with the silvery tones tone of oC Melba with the rich golden golde I colorings and nd d dramatic expression of Calve with the glorious depth and power of ot And she he was wa nei nel neither neither ther French Franch German Spanish Italian ncr DC r Australian She was a Utah girl t born and aM bred Emma Emm Lucy Lacy Lue Gates l granddaughter of Brigham y daughter of Jacob 7 P 1 Gates and aBd Mrs Mr Susie Young Toune Gates the same little girl whom w horn hom scores acor of that audience had seen playing about in short dresses 41 not so ery very long ione ago in Provo Prove It was Wall hard M perhaps for fot those persons persona to realise r that little Lulu is I a genius Yet Tot she is it and destined if she lives and lid pre pro preserves serves nerves her voice and health to be known an the Ue greatest t t singer er in the tile wide ide world As she sans sane last lut night she ithe was va In at least one respect re greater grear than Calve Melba Kelba Patti and the tile theother theother other vocal stars Her voice was equal to any lay Hy Perhaps she lacked the ripe ripeness ness nes ne the maturity of those superb vo vocalists t before whom the musical world I pays pay humble homage But she pos possesses something which not one of them themI I has haa or ur ever will have It is the Inno mao Innocent innocent cent freshness tre nes of youth the clear nat net natural natural ural beauty that strenuous cultivation can never gain Her voice is J i in May MayI I abounding in the verdure and the flow flowers ers era of ot spring She is 21 1 years YEarB old with Ute lite ile growth and fame before her Homer tells tel of the sirens who sang so sweetly that mariners marinen forgot all else el e and mad were drawn rawn Irresistibly Irre toward t them em perishing on the rocks There was naught raught t of such treachery m In the voice that sang san test last night but bet it wove a spell spelt over all oil that heard It held them em bound and aad enraptured until one forgot the figure that stood in front forgot the crowd for forget fort get pt t everything except that oIce An Immense e The was well Allen The he heg galleries g fleres 8 were were not n t thrown open but the th main part of the house contained an audience ee that in a smaller building would ha ba have ve e been termed immense e The choir was Vias at its bet be t under the leadership of Professor Evay Evau Ste Sterhen rhens rhen The great gret organ or pealed forth v idrous music at lie he touch of Pro Professor Professor fessor lessor J 1 J Meridian McClellan The opening I chorus Springtime composed by b Professor Stephens was rendered with great precision and effect by the te choir accompanied with the organ This Tha pre prelude pm lude ude brought brou ht the audience into the mu musical musical sinai spirit The sounds of the chorus died away and nd there was a ripple of off expectancy f as the audience waited for fot forthe forthe the appearance of Miss Mia Gates Gatea Gat Soon si sl le e appeared and there was U a warm greeting She wore a simple white dross dress and nd carried a bouquet of white flowers Twined in her hair were a afew afew afew few white roses She tripped graceful gracefully ly y forward amid applause e and stepped I ItC v tC upon the rostrum Th Thre ve was a trace of nervous embarrassment in her de demeanor demeanor 1 meanor neanor as IU she tossed to ed her bouquet upon the table ta clasped her hands and stood the prelude came from the or organ organ gan Kan The rows of br dresses dree and dark coata coats in the choir and the columnar pipes in the old organ made madea 8 a striking background for the small 1 I figure From Prom the organ came the ther I Irich I Irich r rich vox humane human tones tonee and then the tm I girl girt began begaR to sing It was the aria Ave Merle Maria from opera Calve has sung eung this many times Umes and aid Id so po have Dave I other famous singers rs but tut no sweeter i 4 voice olee ever under k it As she sang saig the lights at the tM summit of the organ were turned on biasing 1 forth Wet Wel Welcome rel I come com and the 8 stir tr lr and then Utah The aria begins with the sweet dreamy music that te Is the spirit pint of the tb II opera The Tb spirit was in the voce voke There was the rippling of a clear I mountain stream the light graceful flight of or the tb swallow now poising now s II soaring and again pin a rich resonant I power that tb t is without comparison J JIe JIn 1 IK In that aria as it was caa a sung I The crowd crowl listened in absolute Id el I Ir Jenee ence drinking in every note When it I Iwas r I was ended en ed came applause enot not tory nor DOl wild tumultuous applause bat but the clapping of hands as If under undera a spell apeL lL Sang S s Jewel Song A bunch of red roses ro e was warn handed the singer tone bhe bowed acknowledgment and again GaI mounted 1 the platform This time she sang saBle the Jewel Song from Faust one of ot the most moot mo t dif dU difficult pieces In iu opera sung with great effect by Melba But the little Utah girl Irl does not need n to fear comparison compari on with the Ute great Australian prima donna don In the tile higher notes Dotes it would be dint cult to say which was wax superior but b t the rich rim mellow resonant re power with which Miss Kiss Gates poured out the Ute lower notes DotY touching low B was certainty certainly never excelled If equaled by Melba Melbo Her pose after she once commenced to sing n was wu easy natural and full Lull of DC grace She stepped lightly oft off the plat pitt platform platform form her attentive mother threw a pink shawl over her bare neck and andar arms ar and aDd Willard E Weihe the vio violinist violinist yb accompanied on the piano by Professor McClellan rendered Rondo des del Lutins Miss Mig Gates returned to sing Chaminade LAnneau Anneau L dAr dArgent d dArgent Ar Argent gent in which she showed her re resources resources sources in the reposeful style of music Next came an n exhibition e of musical expression and dramatic interpretation tion which showed shoed her the rival of Calve I these thelle two respects In which Calve Jas long been the acknowledged queen The song sons was sag doch an The rendi rendition rendition rendition tion was ws a revelation in fl range raa e and power but the natural dramatic strength was even greater It was wu sung with a witchery that cast over the audience the spell of a calm beau bean beautiful beautiful summer Bummer evening with the night nightingale nightIngale singing in a tree The wonders of the organ under the guidance guld nce of its master were shown In Inthe Inthe inthe the organ solo Overture by Professor or McClellan Calve has often sung the Cavatina aria from train the Barber Bubel of Seville but bat Miss Iii Gates Gatos G te showed last lut night that she can ean rival Calve in this Following this number came caine the Ute ballad The Last Rose of or Summer As M the Ute dear des notes note rang through up the vast building flawless s and distinct there were reminiscences of Adelina when she was at the summit 1 of or her Iter story glory It woe was w this song 80 g that th a much anything helped to toI attach to Patti the adjective divine If It there therein is divinity on this earth it is I expressed d through the perfection of music and it is hard to say Y how that song lIOn could rould have approached more t nearly nearby to divine expression The au auditorium auditorium auditorium was chilly and there was a aj trace of huskiness in m the voice during the closing notes but aside from that j the song BOO exemplified the acme aeme of the human voice Her er Crowning Triumph Mr Weihe rendered on the violin an aria by B Bach ch which heh gave glue Professor McClellan in accompanying ing an op opportunity opportunity opportunity to bring out the string ef effect feet teet possible in the organ Miss Gates sang snag et t Sylvains dedi dedicated dedicated to Mme Melba and then came the crowning piece of the evening It was Sing Sweet Bird by Ganz No person but a mistress of music can sing this son song and none can excel the girl who sang it last evening Her pianissimo effects her clear birdlike notes way up to high E her trilling in high B flat and her expression were so 80 wonderful it is difficult to see e how they could be excelled The closing piece the opening chorus from Norma by the choir and end or organ organ gan gea made a grand closing Then the suppressed enthusiasm of the Ule crowd broke loose They cheered for the new singer ain er They rushed forward to grasp grup her hand band the women hugged and kissed her and so to did a few of oC the themen themen men who had known kno her since she was wu wui wasa a Professor or Stephens was en ei entreated ento treated to have the concert repeated Through it all the girl girt who had cre created created this thin sensation retained retal ed the same ingenuous manner she he has haa always had hd Awfully glad to see you she said to t one after another as they seined seised and shook and net hugged and nd kissed When the crowd bad had melted away way and she phe he was being bundled off oft by a fond mother r else aha turned back to re me remark remark mark markEm Em Urn going to keep kep cep on working forking hard and sing st my m best I Just hope to show people that the flit Mormons arent such numskulls as aa some seine people think we at Cr |
