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Show MISS GATES IS A WONDERFUL SINGER Just a few days more and Ogden is I to have the pleasure of hearing Miss il Emma Lucy Gates in recital with the Ogden Tabernacle choir. : A peculiar Interest is attached to the joint appearance of Utah's great-" great-" est singer and Utah's foremoat choral chor-al organization, for It was under the wing of tho Ogden Tabernacle choir that Miss Gates received her introduction introduc-tion to the outside world as a soloist, and before tho cosmopolitan audience at the Portland world's fair won famo for herself and for Utah. An, in the loyal welcome given the choir at the Grand Opera house on their return, Miss Gates was received as one of thorn. That her reception here was apprc-; apprc-; elated by Miss Gates was shown by her desire, when she arrived home last spring from Europe, to give one of her first recitals in Ogden. The dato was arranged but, after her recital re-cital in Salt Lake City, she was taken ill and was obliged to cancel all her engagements. Miss Gates' friends arc now rejoicing over her complete restoration resto-ration to health and full control of hor vocal powers. That all effects of her recent Illness have gone was proven In her rcci'al at Provo on December 10, which was unanimously characterized as the greatest musical event the Garden City had over witnessed and she was given a continuous ovation. What nyiy he expected on the evening even-ing of January 8 may be gleaned from tho following letters which were received re-ceived by Prof. Joseph Ballantyne after af-ter the singer's Salt Lake recital. From Willard Wethc. "It was my good tortune the other night to be at the Tabernacle and listen lis-ten to the artist, Miss Emma Lucy Gates, and as she stood before that vast audience, holding them spellbound by her glorious, voice, I wondered how many realized what courage anl determination, what amount of work and sacrifice was required even with all the God-given talent, to reach such heights in art. Not only is Miss Gates a great artist with a glorious voice, hut what is fully as important, she is a tme musician, which her phrasing and interpretation attested. Well may Utah be proud of Mis3 Gates as an artist and great woman. (Signed.) "WILLARD E. WEIIIE." Classed With Patti. "Emma Lucy Gates is .without any question one of the greatest coloratura colora-tura singers on the German stage at the present time. The meaning or such a statement is better appreciated appreciat-ed when one considers that the German Ger-man speaking people have more first class and more second class opera houses than the remainder of the civilized civ-ilized world combined Mtss Gates has acquired and not only continues to hold, but to strengthen, her enviable position because, first of all, she is a great artist and she has worked. Her chief characteristics vocally are an unsurpassable, marvelous technical control over her vocal organs, a quality qual-ity as hell-like and silvery as any voice could possibly be, a style and charm to her presentations that can only come from abroad: naturally artistic education in which not one trifling qualification has been neglected from the careful study and mastery of the four prominent languages to the ordinary or-dinary everyday exercises on the piano pia-no and violin As a vocalist, she has reached the culmination as far as Utah vocalists are concerned, and is a full-fledged grand opera star, having appeared as such in the great capitals of Europe with the most flattering success. suc-cess. "Her type is of the light florid kind, but is adapted to grand opera work in just such a measure as Avere the voices of Patti, Melba, Tctrazzlni, Sembricli, Emma Nevada and Ellen Beach Yaw. This list comprises the highest priced ladies' voices the world has even known and they are all col oraturas, as is Miss Gates "After the wonderful achievement of Monday's concert, music lovers generally gen-erally regret not having the opportunity opportun-ity of hearing an operatic performance with Miss Gates in tho cast, hut must content themselves with the brilliant concert programs carefull prepared to appease the musical appetite of all music loving people of the community. communi-ty. "In closing, permit me to add that from points of quality, intonation, evenness of lone production, technique, tech-nique, accuracy and general Interpretation, Interpre-tation, I am perfectly safe in saying with celebrated critics who have written writ-ten of the dinger's work that Miss Gates is in every sense an artist of the very first rank, that rank to bo. applied without reserve to the great est ot the musical centers of Americi and the continent (Signed.) "THOMAS GILES." oo |