Show I I i i 0 A Visit to Two Famous Tombs s 0 0 O 0 MENDELSSOHN OHN AND CHOPIN i r I 1 H V I Ii s sAv V r Av ia i i ij iI a iI ii I It IV IS I t TH V i t w rib S V J i V f S f I tl y ti 1 h I ati 1 t 1 v i Y J 1 6 f fI VV I 7 1 t J r j fr def ifs Ole f Torte I 1 I q f e tig V d f r q d I q e l J l 1 J fir c y r S o v S L 1 i iI 1 I I I 1 I r I Sh o y I R RI t I ay I 4 Y 7 r tt a kl Av E F Fi I I i I tJi a p I r sid t i V V 4 W r p N K K rf v n e 4 b I I i i I I EMMA LUCY GATES OF OP THE TIlE ROYAL OPERA BERLIN I II The foremost event of or the lute year in musical circles us the appearance of the Utah Itan C fah singer Miss Emma I I I Lucy Gates at the tho Royal Opera House Berlin and anil her engagement en a ement by b tho the management of that house for a aI term turm of years l beginning I Ilg Sept 1 1909 1903 09 She expects to spend her summer vacation In Salt Lake In 1910 I I i Readers of Till The News will recall a series of let letters ot tern tors which appeared Ih II this paper early In lit the pres pros present l cut ent year under the tho title which heads leads this article I They The were written by b tho the musical and dramatic ed ad editor s I Hor of The Tho News then thon on a n tour of or Europe and tho the thoI I topics now described ell worn were Intended to form forru ono one of or orI the tho series but In the hurry huny of travel truel the notes were mislaid l and were only recently recent recovered They Thov I will Mill bo ho found round to have however an Interest which their publication ut LIt this time us nil lilting as ashI hI though they had appeared In ht their regular re ular order I I BERLIN We gave ILe ourselves hut but huta jl B a week wEel In Germanys Germany beautiful capital when wo we first laid lain out our dates dater for central I I Europe but her hor attractions havo have proved l too and our best laid plans have hlo nl gang gl gang aft wherever that may be 1 Berlin Is III Indeed a constant marvel to tho the I tourist her hor growth her cleanliness her order her hor military air her historical associations as her herI i I galleries and to us more than all also her hor must musi mustI musical I r 4 cal atmosphere have combined to keep us In a II condition of ol blended excitement and ecstacy tl t D We Ve have sent homo a detailed account I i of ot how we met mot tho the Utah colony colon and tho the Utah i registered hero as aa well as our memorable me mo memorable moI I I 1 morable experience In witnessing the first two performances In which the Salt Lako singer lInger 1 I Emma Lucy Gates tools tool part at tho the Royal Opera house performances which wh ch led to her engagement I I for a term of or years as a member of that exclusive s organization After tho the stress of her rehearsals rehears I and public appearances was over oV r we the had an opportunity opportunity of visiting with Miss Gates and endless I was ens liS the round of rides excursions entertain entertainments mentH ments and shopping excursions which she and I the th Pilgrims Indulged In together One of ol these thes deserves more than passing mention because It iti i sprang from rom a big musical affair In which wo we 0 had been greatly Interested Just before leaving home I tho the rendition of or s Elijah by h tho the Salt lIt Lake Choral Cho al society under McClellan on tin the tink tint k t J i I rZ 4 i 1 a Sit r hundredth anniversary of the tha great groat composers birth Miss Gates an un old time pupil and a life lifelong lifelong long friend of or McClellan was wm greatly Interested to learn of ol musical work wo at home and anal the lie conversation con conversation passing from front that topic to Mendelssohn himself the tho young oung singer suggested that his hi burial place was wall in ono of oC tho the Berlin cemeteries and e l that we wo should all pay It IL a n visit Next day la therefore guided by h Tom Glues Giles a u Salt Luke music student now at work with Godowsky and who will one day ho bo heard hoard of at homo home we wo set lot setout setout out per pOl electric car for fOl tho composers composer resting place lace In Old Trinity church yard jard ard it U was teas a 11 beautiful spring day Ju just JUHt t such suet a one we imagine ns Os might his Immortal Spring Song and wo soon alight aUght outside the tho high Iron enco which encloses the vast burial place Every Ever foot of ground is occupied and wo judge they thc must have huc ceased making interments here years ago for tho the head stones stand close together h in long rows with but little room between them After Arter Artera a walk wall of ol five minutes down the quiet lanes wo pause before a little group of headstones enclosed within an nil iron railing several MO are 1 of or marble in the tune form of crosses and upon all these Is la seen scon the tho family name namo of oC the tho composer Bartholdy Barthold his hla own plainly Inscribed Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with tho birth date Feb 3 1800 and the death date Nov XO 4 1847 1817 stands about the center tho the earth covered with sod od Wo had decided that our visit to his tomb should bo be marked by b a n little private ceremony of or our own the Indulgence of a n fad some would call aJl It paying a n tribute It U seemed to us so 60 we wo put purchased chased a wreath of flowers lowers from the tho florist at the gate Ranging ourselves around the tho grave a little gIrl of our party laid the wreath upon the sod Mod Miss Gates standing at the head headstone headstone stone warbled softly the undying strains of tho the Spring Song and as she did no so another member j I t I Ih h u of the party took tool a snap shot of her with his kodak from a short distance away awa How well ho succeeded Is shown by br the little half hal tone that accompanies this article In the midst of our little program a gruff caretaker approached and ordered us to desist saying In German that no singing or other exercises of ol any kind were allow allowed allo ed around tho graves giaves Miss Gates song was there therefore therefore fore rore left unfinished but Tom Giles cleverly pro prolonged prolonged prolonged longed his argument with the man until the kodak kodal view of the famous tomb with the tho Utah singer rendering rend her homage to the tho great one ono who lay la beneath was successfully finished and we e eCIO were CIO then content to withdraw MADAM CORELLI Another pleasant p experience In ii h BerJIn Berin owed to our visit with Miss lIss Gates was the tho meeting with the famous teacher Madam Blanche to whose energy perseverance and wide acquaintance In Influential quarters Miss s Gates owes oles her at the Royal Rojal Opera house Mme Corel maintains handsome quarters on and Is busy from early morning till late at night with pupils from all allover allover allover over the new and und the old world How she found time with her multitudinous duties to conduct the negotiations which led up to her pupils suc aue successful successful debut coaching her In Ju singing dialogue German accent accompanying nor ncr to rehearsals rehearsal and finally finall passing on all nil the tho red rod tape details which had to be observed before the contract an awe Inspiring document that looked like a copy of the Edict of or Nantes only those who know her can cats Imagine But she took Miss Gates into her own household where she has ever since remained and unit was at once teacher mother guide philosopher and friend to tl the tho Utah girl Madam is a handsome dark eyed wom woman woman woman an with tho the manner munner that suggests she aho has been accustomed to do things thing and big things at that Her Hor appearance Is surprisingly youthful considering that she laughingly confesses con to hav having ha haIng having ing sung in Pinafore with Richard Mansfield in America nearly thirty years Clr ago She Is ly the tho only daughter of the tho celebrated Hermann Herman the Great Creat the original not his later imitator and the no less le well veil mown known Rosa no a who at the tho uge ago of 15 Iii was Royal Roal imperial Court Dourt opera singer singerIn In Vienna It Is not to bo to marvelled at therefore the the daughter of such parents patents should bo ho a wonder child nor that at nt an nn early caily carl ago age she won the friendship Interest and attention of such great greut men us Thomas and Strauss appearing with nil all those masters either cither as student or as Mine musical education wits was acquired in Vienna Paris Palls and London At the ago of IG 1 G silo she won lion tho the Rubin stein prize a u grand piano In hi a contest which I she mitered entered d At 17 she became a pupil at l the Paris conservatory conservator which was ryas then under the direction of ol Thomas the thc composer of or Mignon and also studied singing In iii the class cia of or Mine Garcia After s several successful years ears In Vienna and Paris she went to America where whore she sho organized or her own opera company acting both as aa prima donna and manu mana manager manugel ger gel She travelled twelve years through tho the United States Mexico South America and Now New Zealand and IH Is II well ell remembered remember d not only as a successful singer and lud actress hut but as asan asan asan an excellent operatic manager For POl 16 years ears past sho has been settled in Berlin where she bho ho has successfully taught her wonderful Italian method of singing which hoi has h mado her herand herand and her studio famous amou A list of her pupils would Include the names of ninny many man of the tho famous artists of Europe and America nt at tho present tune time tho the latest Instance being the tho successful debutante Miss Gates of our own state AT THE TOMB OF Ol CHOPIN Paris May Six weeks have elapsed elapse 11 since we vve were lust lost In the gay ga capital and und a record of our dash through Belgium Holland Germany German Austria and Switzerland has hall been recorded already In the pages of The News Now on our way wu to London Liverpool Now New York and HOME we actually find ourselves with a n morning to spare We have put In hours houra at the Loure Louvre viewed Paris Parla from the top of ot the Eiffel tower lingered about the tomb tombo of o Napoleon revelled In the lilt halls and galleries of Versailles and promenaded again and again through tho the Champs Elysee and the Bols BoIs do Boulogne visited the tho shops elbowed tho the teeming population In the Latin Quarter and hit the other high places of ol interest t in Parisian life lifo So this morning we decide to Indulge another musical fancy ane and visit tho grave gravo of the tho im immortal Immortal Immortal mortal Chopin the Lord Byron of music the tho soul of the tho piano as called him r whoso whose body was wall laid away In tho the earth hero here In Paris GO CO years ago Wo We 13 felt an Interest in tho the great Polish musi musician musician musician cian aside from a lifelong admiration of or his works because when we wo left America In February a t warm controversy was waging as to the proper date to be observed as his centennial one sot set claiming that ho was yas born March 1 1809 another February 22 IS 1810 10 Our hope hore was that the In Inscription Inscription on his tombstone might settle the dis disputed disputed point So taking the Paris underground railroad and traveling for half an hour or more moro towards the outskirts of ol the tho city we came camO to tho the famous old cemetery of Pere Pero La Chaise l las as the burial burl III place of hundreds of ot the heroes and heroines of or French history it is surrounded by b a brick wall along which were ranged tho thol long l ng flies files of the Red Republicans or Communists who were executed there thero as rebels In tho the bloody days 1 r of o 1871 just after aCter the Prussians had with i drawn from Paris Their bodies were Interred inside n but wo we did not tarry to look at their graves as the musicians group lay far Inside the vast city of oC tombs and having only a map man of ot tho the cemetery It Il meant a long search to find it We came camo upon It at last lost on tho side of or a small hillock in the center of a wilderness of big and little headstones the Insignificant and tho the grand gland blended The Tune g great cat burial place seemed older ohler and dingier less cared for than that at Berlin where herC Mendelssohn lay la and neither of them Is to be compared with tho the noble picturesque ant an ana l roomy room home homo of or tho the dead in Vienna where not long since wo stood in the center of tins the wonderful group of tombs which marks mmes the resting place of or Beethoven Mozart Schubert Brahms Suppo and Strauss In the care sho she bestows upon the tho tombs of her departed great greot Austria surely exceeds any country we wo visited on the continent Only disappointment awaits us when we wc search for tho birth dale dato on tomb The Tho spot is marked marled by b a beautiful statue ol of o a weeping figure somewhat smaller than life Info sloe sl holding a lyro in its hand On the stone stono base is Iii Inscribed od ed Frederic Chopin Died Oct 17 1849 1840 but no mention of his birth so 80 doubtless the uncertain uncertainty ty surrounding tho the date dato was as 18 prevalent when shon wl oll he died as it Is now ow Some Somo kindly hand had hind laid laida laid laida a wreath of fresh violets at the foot of ho Iio statue and Its fragrance filled tho the air all around as 3 we w stood and silently thought of ot the gifted one whose whole bones were crumbling a row few feet beld of his sad life his hla romantic attachment for the authoress George Georgo Sand then the idol of or the tho French of his struggles and his lids early death At his funeral Berlioz said he hIJ has been dying all his life Not far away lie Ile tho the remains of another brilliant genius Bellini who was burled buried there thero In 1835 at lt atthe atthe I the tho early car ago age of ot 33 On the marble marblo shaft which thich marks malks tho the spot are aro engraved the tho names lor of his operas Norma Nonna and La bula buln Many Italians bellove that Bellini who r came from Sicily to Paris was poisoned there thereby by r Jealous rivals Two other musicians whoso remains lie He close to those of Chopin are arc Adrian 4 born 1776 1775 died 1834 1534 and born 1752 died 1842 So he lies In n death us he was in lIfo life surrounded by bv those tho o who loved him F Fand 1 and never wearied of tribute to his paying pa g genius I We inquired In vain at Pore La Ln Chaise Chalso for the j tomb of ot Gounod composer of Faust laust but learn learned ed that ho was burled buried in tho the cemetery at Montmartre Mont font martre some somo distance away awa tend and unfortunately ly time would not allow us to make malto tho the trip to that I 1 place I Since this was written the best of authorities somo some of or whom set an un earnest Inquiry afoot In War Var Warsaw j s saw lW near to which city elt Chopin first saw the tho light have agreed that the correct date Is February 22 2 Isle so that his lils 1 centennial n will I bo be everywhere O eel cel celebrated J fod oc next year a on tho natal day of our own J Washington W t Chopin h loft t Warsaw when only 20 years ears of ago j but he was so adored there that three farewell con eon concerts concerts were given him Ho Iio had great success as a 11 j In Vienna and ane Berlin but finally settled in Paris Parla whore ho lie became the friend of or I I CherubInI Berlioz and Io Mendelssohn at nt tended his concerts and was thrilled by II his genius j I as a composer and a performer Ho lIe was a loyal loal son of or Poland and It Is said that tho the news of tho the cap ture turo of Warsaw by the tho Russians Inspired tho melancholy mel melancholy Etude In C Minor Op 10 No 12 I j |