Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-11
'''' OUR OWN STATE.

day, Oct. l6, which is also the eve Of her
departure for New York--a few OF the
facts In her already notable career
may not be out of place.
Emma Lucy Gates was born Nov. l.
1871, making her now nearly twenty.
Two years OF age, Her parents, Jacob
i. and Susa Young Gates, resided at
that tire in 81. George. A few years
later they removed to the Sandwich
Islands, and here at eight years Of
age Lulu received baptism In the Nor.
mon Church at the hands of her father
The placid waters OF the Pacific ocean
being chosen for the ordinance Mosf
of the next Soc ears Of her life wpre
spent In the Bingham Young academy
at Provo, Her musical studies hogan
several years prior 10 her trip abroad
Indeed her education in this direction
had proceeded SO far that she was
able to capture the prize for best plano
playing by young LADY IN the Elstedd.
Tod held In the Salt Lake Tabernacle IN
1881, II was TO further her training
IN plano work that she went 10 Ger-
many shortly afterWard
Her student life for the next three
years was fun of the priyations and
selt-Sacrihces incident to o lively am
bitlon and a slim purse, That she
succeeded so well was largely due TO
the practical Judgment and foresight OF
her grandmother, Mrs. Lucy b. Young
who lived with her In the capacity of
housekoeper and chaper0ne. For n
year or SO she devoted her whole time
To the piano, ana 1t was almost by ne
oident that she was induced to change
Her teacher one day overheard her
trying her voice on some light, airv
song, and was so struck with its range
and fexiblllty, that he persuaded her
to begin training Il at once
Next followed period of experi-
mentatlon with his "best method" and
that, until she almost despaired of
singing at nll. However. by good for
tune she reached Madame Corelll at
last, and she 1t was that built up the
magnificent voice that has so often
charmed her hearers during the vast
year
or her work since last November.
when her Tabernacle concert intro
duced her TO enthusiastic home audi
ences, little need be said, for her
achievements are fresh In the memories
of all, Refusing a salary Of 5000
week TO sing during the summer at
Fashionable watering places on the At
lantlc seaboard she came 10 Utah. and
responding to calls from remote Stakes
has given splendid series of con-
certs In most Of the important towns
throughout Utah and southern Idaho.
Her one appearance in opera with the
Salt Lake opera company showed that
she has histronic gifts Of q high char
acter
Her American concert tour which be-
gan last February under the manage
ment of Major Pond. had TO be ahan-
doned because OF the sickness of Flor
izel, the boy violnist. who was to have
taken the leading role. Two concerts
were given. however one at Carnegie
hall. New York, where Miss Gates was
recalled six times. and the other In
fastldIously critical Boston. Some of
the New York papers We're scurrilously
hostile: but their flings at Salt Lake
city and the west generally made It
plain that their anlmus was sectional.
They were not willing TO let anything
good come out Of Nazareth. The Brook
lvn Eagle referred to Miss Gates as
The Mormon Jenny Lind" Max O'Rell
declared that she was destined 10 be a
second Melba. The Boston Transcript
called her "the beautiful Mormon Diva
TO be- and spoke Of her voice as being
rose fresh in quality and one that re-
called Patti
Not least Of the notable things Miss
Gates has done during the year was
the endowing. in the Brigham Young
academy. of department In domestic
science to be called after her grand
mother Lucy d. Young. Her first gift
OF $1,000 was the proceeds OF a single
concert last January in the Provo tab
ernacle. She has pledged herself TO
give the returns from one concert each
year to the same worthy end.
Miss Gates bids farewell TO Zion on
oct, II. She will stay of al Indiana
polls where Mrs, May Wright Sewall
has arranged for her a magnificent re-
ception numbering among the guests
such literary celebrities as General Lew
Wallace. Booth Harrington and James
Lane Allen. Her father and mother
viii accompany her to New York and
remain with her during the progress
OF her musical studies.