Show anent the visit of emma lucy gates I 1 and becky almond we had the opportunity somewhat lin infrequent frequent in our part of the state to listen to high class music when miss emma lucy gates and miss becky almond came to sevier county last week to sing and and play for the people of salina richfield and monroe iroe the two artists are so well known and so highly appreciated all over the state and as far as emma lucy is concerned all over the united states and in european 1 countries that it is unnecessary to give them here the praise they both so richly deserve both in their respective fields master the technical apparatus which is the feces sary pre dequis requisite of artistic rendi tion and both ire arc posse possessed ased of that musicianship and temperament that is indispensable for artistic singing or playing the voice of miss gates although handicapped hero here by a cold and physical exertion she had to take a treatment while in richfield by our osteopath dr 0 L anderson of whom she spoke to our representatives in terms of highest appreciation has that sweet flute I 1 like character that eliat delights the opera and concert audiences of two conti bents and miss almond since wei we j last heard beard her four years ago has grown to be perfect in her technique j and wonderfully advanced in niu musical expressions rather than going into detail about their renditions we think it more necessary as expressed in iii our edi adi tonial demarks in another column to say a few words about the program and its educational value the logically grouped program gave miss gates an opportunity to demonstrate her ability in dramatic and lyric parts arts dramatic in grand opera selections motions like delibes bell song from the opera larme and bizett Haban eia from carmen lyric in such songs as stricklands Strick lands mah lindy lou and the group of childrens songs by the best known represent representatives atiles of this kind of musical literature it would be testing our available space almost to the point of being in regard to other news to dwell at any length on the merits of the composers whose unpretentious but nevertheless musically valuable songs miss gates had selected as that part of the program we are grateful however that max rogers marias Wiegen lied was a part of the program because the german gelman gel man composer is well characterized by this opus reger rager is master in contrapuntal tra puntal arrangement and when the sparkling structure of masterly applied double counterpoint is stripped from the subject there is not much left of that lyric beauty which ought to be the outstanding quality of the lied manri manTi and schubert knew just as well as roger reger I 1 does the fine art of contrapuntal I 1 weaving together but with both of I 1 them counterpoint is the handmaid of the song while with roger reger to our notion the contrapuntal structure receives first and the song only secondary consideration mentioning briefly the piano renditions J by miss almond the two great numbers she played are well known favorites with all performers and always heard beard with delight by intelligent audiences wagners magners Wag ners magic fire music is a gem in in regard to an almost simple but convincingly vincin gly persuasive motive which sings the Wal kurie into sleep beffie the magic fire en shrouds beloved daughter litzts fantasy on hungarian folk melodies is so characteristic act of the glowing ardor of gypsy songs that it is well understood also by non hungarians and through litzts conception it has become universally known and felt miss almond was perhaps somewhat lacking in the fire of the songs of the hungarian but she played the number with such technical perfection that it was fully deserving of the enthusiastic applause it received |