The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-26

HIGH PRAISE FOR
YOUNG UTAH GIRL
Emma Lucy Gates Attracts At
tentiOn in New York.
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GREAT FUTURE PREDICTED
JUDGES OF MUSIC PRONOUNCE
HER VOICE MARVELLOUS.
GREAT FUTURE PREDICTED

The door OF a top door fat in an
apartment house at West Charles
street, Manhattan. was open. and down
Through the corridors echoed q ripping.
musical laugh People in the other
apartments stopped 81 listen. uncon-
scious delight upon their faces.
Who IS she-the girl on the TOP
floor who singse beautiful girl OF
-, Who sits at her piano al day long
and sings such songs as were never
heard in Charles street before2 Who
can she be
For weeks the people I'm the house
have been asking, and they have just
found out that she Is Emma Lucy
Gates. q granddaughter of Brigham
Young Of Mormon fame, and p0ssessor
0f>what critics term the most wonder
ful young voice in America, n not in
the world.
Twenty three years ago. vi IN . liz
lie hiue- gray-eyed. pink-dimTled baby
girl was born 20 the wife of 4acob T.
Gates at his home iu ST. George. a pic
turesque little hamlet Of 1000 souls 10
the Red mountains of southern Utah,
her grandmother, Lucy Bigelow Young,
the NTH plural wife Of Brigham Young,
took the child in her arms and carried
her up 10 the roof of the house, that
the girl should be high-minded when
she grew up.
Story of Life in Provo.
"She viii have q great soul, and sing
Ike the angels said the siiver-haired
old lady. And the mother of Lucy
Gates never forgot the prophecy. As
her daughter grew she taught Der the
intr!cacies of music, and Lucy devel-
oped a wonderful talent for the piano.
. Co
lily removed to Provo. in the heart of
the Rocky mountains, and little Lucy
grew in mind and musical capacity,
drawing inspira tion from the towering
mountains about her home.
The life In Provo was ideal. The
older members Of the family rode about
on horseback and hunted in summer
time in Rocky canyon, the summer
home of Jacob Gates. Coming in from
her play in the fields baby Lucy would
climb TO the piano stool and impr0vise
artistic little creations. which delight
ed her mother and grandmother Her
mother was president OF the Brigham
Young Normal school ar Provo and
woman Of rare culture and refinement
She kept the original dOings of her lit
Tie girl in her heart and poudeTed upon
them.
The clear, dry air Of the FOUNTAINS
and the outdoor play were developing
a great lung power and athletic frame
in the child, but those who loved her
never dreamed that she had voice
Of marvellous possibilities.
When Lucy was az Gears old the
Gates family removed &c the Hawaiian
islands, where Mr. Gates took charge
Of large sugar plantation. There lit
tie Lucy drank in tire soft sea air and
the meiodiojls songs of the islanders
and continued to grow in music
Moves TO Salt Lake City.
When she was 9 years old the family
came back TO Utah, and Luck entered
The schools In Salt Lake City.
As she grew older she became a
member Of The Salt Lake Opera COM
pany. and Vi she tabernacle choir. two
organizations that are famous
Throughout the west. Still no one
dreamed that her voice was more Won
deTful than her piano playing Her
mother was now d teacher Of music
in one Of the big church schools. and
her Grandmother Young used to ask
the little girl 70 come up 20 her home
on Sixth North streeC and sing the
hymns of the church she loved so we'll.
Grandmother used 10 tell me that
/ was a wonderful piano player said
Miss Gates. but I used to like to sing
better than anything else. ! used 10
ride my horse into the mountains and
sing for my own pleasure I was
good horsewoman, and what they call
out there 4 dead shot, though I never
could bear TO kill anything ] don't
think that II is right 10 take the life
of any creature.
Il began about that tine TO dream Of
going 10 Europe TO study, and one day
I put my arms around grandma's neck
and asked her 10 find me the way.
Grandma went 10 the president OF the
church and asked his permission, and
because she had some influence and
the president himself had heard me