Show Finest Voice Upon Stage age 1 1 Tribute Pa Paid Gal 9 LUC Lucy New York Critic Dee Deda Decla 1 I Utah Singer SurpasseS S V Galli Curci assel Lucy Gates the Utah soprano a voice more beautiful than the ther of ot the fam famed d Galli Galli-Curci and i is IJ equal of the greatest prima don the United States has produced Glared dared V Henry T. T Finck New 17 Y critic in the leading article o page of ot the New York Evening l Magazine of last Saturday 1 Here is the text of ot his article Lucy Gates heads the us lis singers engaged by Manager Html Hinsl for the next opera season of th the clety of ot American Singers wl wI opens on October 13 at the iJ r P theatre where such surprising V V gra gratifying success was achieved season It is not yet et announced what operas she will appear whatever the operas they wm will ford opportunities to hear bear the theo b lc liest soprano voice now on ori on the oj or or atie or concert stage American foreign Two years ears ago I wrote this page that Miss Gates had a i rn beautiful voice and a more finis vocal art than the much advert Mme Galli This stat n aroused a surprising amount Of cusson particularly in the Middle Far West est but I did not claim much mich for Brigham Youngs Young's gra gw daughter nota bene bone I am not Mormon I now go a good deal I ther and say that Miss Gates f is if equal of the greatest prima don this country countr has produced s s s1 artists as Emma Eames Lillian oX X dica and Geraldine Geradine Farrar GATES CAN CArol WAIT I Were Vere it not that another E ex eo lent American coloratura sin Mabel Garrison got ahead of herthe her herthe the Metropolitan opera house j 11 JJ Gates would now no doubt be he member of that company but she young oung and can wait In the me me time most of ot her time is given concert work which for the cour at large is better because sh i ibs be bs heard in so many more citie tc towns wn than she would be as an singer Last Lisl season she made e etc eg concert appearances alone an and Js V leading orchestras Her a with 1 the tle New York Symphony tr had to be postponed illness hut but the ovation she go o 1 ht her r marvelous singing of Gri Gripes Grieg's s S J 5 vei s Lied with the New York p pj Harmonic was duly recorded in ini t N Next November she wilt will heard hear in hi this city in Harriet Jjr 2 cantata Undine with a chor s V SINGER IS PATRIOTIC Miss Gates is patriotic as a wl artis artistic ic but it was not a sense Wi rf cf rf i I duty that made her i 1 glorious songs of Americas America's fa fame fanu composer in her recitals last s seas s' s She adores Edward MacDowell's SOIl soc because she knows and feels the Unlike s some me eminent foreign sing whom I might name she t same pains in learning this Ame cans can's songs that she does in stud in tag those of Schubert Schumann nl Brahms That makes maes a difference l songs u u ly seem easy but the more and ami ardently you study them 1 more mOle you are thrilled by their st tie bea beauties their exquisite te tenth ness their emotional fervor Enor By siring sir sin m ing them in her intelligent an and syi pathetic way this Mormon won more fervent applause for thi American merican songs than for those ot of of a foreigner on her programs That That'S That'll J achievement some other American singers might well t try y emulate 1 |