Show THE MUSIC STUDENT IN BERLIN I Berlin BerUn Dec 13 The 13 Tho many man friends of ot Emin Luc Lucy Gates In Utah will be Interested d i inn d to know th that at she is hot becoming becom inS ing nn more mor and more popular In her now place ph air at Cassell Her mana managers are arc her hor but tl they ey with exceedingly I kind cind to herself el I t tire re C so gO d delighted to find such receptive material that she Is perhaps being boing we ked a a little too hard es especially es- es r one ono still young and whoso voice is lust first now maturing She Sho hassun has ha's sun sung In l fifteen big roles since she opened In nl Cassell Casell and had sung thirty- thirty one ono times In the tho first three months month ending wl h November 24 Among herbig harbig her har herbig big parts tore litre In Rheingold In non Mignon Oscar In Mask Mask- Cos stance Constance stance In Queen and also I tho the page In The Huge- Huge nots nets goalies a In The Barber Barger of Se Se- yule ville Christine lne In a The Golden Cross InThe in inThe Madeline In The The Queen In the Magic Flue and iller famous part of at Anchon In hu tz with wi th which she made her hor debut in iii the Royal here She Is 15 w well but be begins ins to long for the Christmas Christ Christ- mss mas rest Her llor man mana managers ors want her to come out In I Hottman s Tales Martha Mar 1301 In Strauss Strauss' new opera tha th Sophia r and Traviata b but those will con cone conie e later In tho the year None but ma may know what this brief record sl SJ ells eUs of work and effort Also none b t they will read the ar ar artistic triumph hick glows between the lines Unes of at this s 's simple mple announcement Elder ld Da W W. W Cummings of ot Salt Lake son of or B has boon boen spending a 1 we weep In Berlin with his old friend Gates Mr tr Cum Cum- Cummings has been been laboring In the French section of Switzerland erland for tor two years and Is on his Vay ay to Paris It has has' been decided by the local Mormon church authorities to open a mission In that great and g gab t. t city after arter the many years vears which havi ha clap elapsed ed since President dent John Taylor made his visit Isit to that famous capital I ir irA lS 1850 O. O The reasons which have led to this tc this long absence of ot Mormon elders from m Paris seem now to be removed remo and this coming winter will see half halt a n. d dan en vigorous young young at work trying the apparently Impossible feat 01 of Instilling faith atthe of at the old old fashioned kind Into gay Paree Pareo Elder Cummings w 11 l be In charge of ot this new venture While bile here in Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin Mr Cummings s has gas been congratulated congratulated on his knowledge knowle ge e-e of French his appearance adding t o o the impression caused In some Quart quarters rs that he really was as a Frenchman The little Swiss brogue did not Interfere much with his fluent luent French speech The usual musical student IB is s In a a. class all aU by himself He Be Invariably becomes bo- bo comes very self conscious when he ho arrives arrives arrives ar ar- rives over here and as as' as a consequence of or the Isolation in which ho finds himself him him- self Helf for the first j year rear ar hd rid needs about a twelvemonth twel to adjust himself to conditions conditions con con- and environment en Duning his period of musical hibernation he ho is very musically ally but he digs s prodigiously In the fallow fallon soil son of or his new field of ot endear endeavor dr New clew methods Ideal of or new teachers and a a. new brand musical proportions require time for cOS cognizance I have yet et to meet a L student student student stu stu- stu- stu dent who nho would do an anything thing in the musical way for tor his friends during that first year period of or ad adjustment nt As ther the r result sult most of ot us arc are always alwa's quite In Inthe Inthe the dark about the rest of ot us Then suddenly each of or us student caterpillars lars emerges from tho the chrysalis state and profoundly surprises tho the rest of at us Lo the butterfly has spread Its wings and It takes all of at us to exclaim and declaim and admire and proclaim On one of ot these each of at us nights when whon all of or us were gathered In n tho the salon of or one of us It t came about that a anew new new year old Year old student-grub student shed her dull robes Tobes of or obscurity and spread her wings dazzling dazzling wings wings' of at success s for tor the rest of us to admire and emulate emulate In short Miss bliss Shipp surprised all of or us us us' the the- theother other night when a party part in honor honorof ot or Mr David Cummings CumminS's was In progress by busting out In song which so amazed zed and tickled tick ted tho the whole of or us that we vo haven't got ot over o it yet jot Her voice Is a a. dark colored beautiful so soprano soprano soprano so- so with a n surprising amount of coloratura In it It The social was hold at Frau Fran Schmidt's ts t's hospitable rooms and music musio and games garnes am s were the tlC oilier of ot the evening There u a goodly quantity of fruit and good Utah candy candy Berlin Berlin Berlin- made made for for refreshments refreshments- All II 0 of us us' voted that It was In tho the nature of a asocial asocial social calamity that that Mr Ir Cummings Cumming's was not tot sent hero here h Instead stead of ot to Paris but perhaps It Is 16 better all nIl around I If Il mu musical musi muei- l- l cal careers cu are tt tb be bo finished hed and musicians musicians mu mu- nr are aro not to be bo interfered with kinder it e 11 At a musical hold held at the homo th the fore part pact of ot this week weck the th latest musical effort of Mr l B. B Cecil Gates was as performed IP JC Itis Is a r Liebes s Lied for tor tho the cello and proved a a. rather weird elrd b out but t promising piece of amateur work It W was I played b by Miss garde Berthold from Boston who con contributed contributed con con- much to to the tho success df t the new venture by her broad treatment and her beautiful tone Mr tIr Gates has lias been much complimented recently through being invited by bythe the mana managers ers of at his conservator conservators to enter th the class class tn taught ue ht by b the master master Who ho Is of or course curse the head of ot the school This 1 great musician is reputed to be ver very verv r fond lonu of ot Americans and perhaps Justly so for so for their reputation o oyer oer er here is that of or generous but Improvident ImprovIdent dent dawdlers at fat music without ut se serious serious se- se rious Int Intent nt or power of ot application Therefore ore Mr fr Gates Cates was vas not admitted into luto the classes last year ear o But the mister master must have c been Impressed Ja- Ja favorablY fa fa- or blI with some some of at tho the y 3 young mans work for tor ho hOc Invited him to a n. private ate Interview Inter and after after asking the Ameri American rican ri- ri can to play platy some some of ot his own lat late compositions com corn positions ho graciously sl invited him IUm to join sin his own cl classes ses and gave ga e a him de decided do- do encouragement Mr l Gates ites Is st studying vocal music and now counter counter- co counterpoint point and composition with ith the tho great treat himself as well is s taking in tho the latter part of at the year ear conductIng conducting conductIng conduct- conduct Ing under the H Herr Herr- rl Director Besides nil all this he Is Sa working at his piano and has picked up up his ol old instrument the tho coronet for tor amusement It It mav ay be expected that we wo shall ha have cave something om t l g good to report next spring from r m this young joung Utahn It Leopold Godowsky gave Jave his first concert concert concert con con- cert here last IR Thursday evening e Herr Godowsky has luis the reputation being the greatest technician li and ami he heIs heIs I. I Is said to be a genius at imparting Instruction In Instruction Instruction In- In and Inspiration to to his pupils He was the te teacher cher a of Thomas Giles of It your city The artists artist's concerts here are always well attended and Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day Mas n no ex exception to the rule Asan As Asan I Ian an artist arUtt personally I do o not care caro so much for tor him for tor his piano plan playing for to me l Ill it is mechanical and lacks soul But his superb and faultless technique make makee him a a master whom no piano student can afford to neglect nes h Tearing hearing whenever It is possible for tor very much is to be learned from listenIng listening listen listen- In Ing to that river of or rippling limpid notes running like silvered waters over the tho ke keys s 's of the grand rand piano plana He is known to to go ro o through whole wit without gout m mso making one single le false false falM note so perfect is his skill Even the great s-reat and matchless Liszt List could not do that rElder Elder Frank Arnold of or Salt Sal t La Lake e who has been laboring in Berlin since the he summer mon months as president Of t this branch of elders has hC been heen released Red to return home He leaves for Liverpool and returns by way of at Montreal Montral a Can Can- ada Eld Elder r Arnold Arn leaves behind him hima a no host of ot friends and well wishers 11 This letter could not close without some mention of at the universal festivals festivals festivals' festi festi- vals vals' held this year jear ear In Germany n as elsewhere elsewhere else- else where whore In honor of ot f the great Liszt To Tobe To Tobe Tobo bo be be sure the one one held at zt Budapest was by far far- tho most imposing and stupendous stupendous stu stu- but we have had Liszt programs programs pro pro- grams galore In Berlin by pl pianists who could Iou play PIM and those who could not by great e choral societies ocl Ues by bv violinists io vio 10 and b by all sorts and anCl kinds of ot musical clubs an and organizations Woof We Wo of this generation have nothing left lett of the greatest of ot all pianists and teachers teacher teach teach- er ers but history and the faint suggestions suggestions of or his greatness reflected with more or less warmth and brilliancy In his hl living JIving pupils It was a moving mo sight and spectacle cl Ito to t those ose in Budapest to o see upon one platform tHe tho old and ond the he new great ones whose names spell for tor us students th the tha last word In hi t c c art There were Eugen Eue-en dAlbert d'Albert Emil Sauer Moris Rosenthal Arthur Friedheim Bernhard Frederick Lamond and Sophie Mentor Menter Surel Surely such a sight has never ne before been n seen in the musical world and will ill never again be witnessed d. d Tho rho pomp and ceremony of or their gathering under the shadow of their various triumphs triumphs triumphs tri tri- tri tri- their failures because failures because of ago age and disuse of ot plastic musicales the musicales the glitter and show of or the royal ac accompaniment accompaniment om- om to all this pageant read to us ip up here in Berlin like fairy tales talc's o of or long log ago And to think that a amere a amere mere e musician c can n be thus remembered but years jears his birth is to gl glory r I in his triumph and receive fresh tresh Impetus for tor greater labors more I tireless efforts |