Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-27

I "Oh, everyone has been as nice and
| Kind as they could be. My teacher Mr.
| Vlsetti, taught Miss Agnes Nichols ana
Madame kirkby Lunn, and a lot OF
other well known singers and he has
| taken the utmost trouble with my voice
| His great idea has been to make IL
equally strong throughout It's whole
register. was the understudy for
Hansel when the students gave Han
sci and Gretel-you know they give a
performance OF some work every year
and at the last moment the singer W no
was going TO take the part fell il. so
! had TO supply her place. ! have sung
N another students performance. and
IL has been splendid practise, OF
course, have been going TO operas and
concerts whenever could, so as to hear
all the best singers. | went the other
day to hear Madame Patti at the AL
bert hall, and-is It very dreadful to
say SOIL was rather disappointed with
her. But then father says ought To
have heard Patti 30 years ago"
VIII you tell me now about your
debut"
1T was last November at ballad
concert In st. James hall, and sang
an air from Der Freyschutz, and
she wandered down the mountain side,
"''' WV pAli'l HlfIfFt Inc hullbntp
was so kind and enthusiastic that
shall never forget II. | had TO sing an
encore, and next day the newspap ers
said such nice things about my voice.
since then ! have sung IN Leeds and
other cities, but az | am continuing my
lessons at the Royal college have not
accepted many engagements. have
sung at the ballad concerts regularly
for Mr.. Boosey, and / am going 10 sing
in The Creation In few days time.
was nervous at my first appearance
In London? No. | don't think / was
was ], Poppa? Madame Clara Butt.
Mr.. Plunket Greene, and the other sing
ers were so Kind TO me--particularly
Madame Clara Butt--that | didn't dare
TO feel scared. And then, after the first
song that mighty burst Of applause
quite treasured me-"
How did you come to sing before
the queen?'
Miss Graham Ashton (who il. like
myself, an exhibitioner at the Royal
college, and /, were asked to learn the
part songs composed by his royal high
ness the LandRrave Of Hesse. He was
staying IN London, and was very desir-
Gus that his musical COMPOSITIONS
should be heard by the queen. He is
not the Grand Duke Of Hesse, but a
relative Of his. and is n prince Of n
years Of age. So we went and rehearsed
the songs, which are very pretty and
tuneful, and then one day we were told
that we had 10 sing them before the
queen at buckingham palace the next
day I'm glad we did not get longer
notice, for Il would have only increased |
our nervousness In the afternoon I |
drove up TO the palace, and was ushered |
up the staircase TO "A beautiful draw |
ingroom, Some Of the ladies-in- waiting
to the queen ca me and talked 10 us. and |
those beautiful twins, the Hons. Violet |
and Dorothy Vivian. were there, | no. |
tiCed, They are exactly alike, and so |
charming, BY and by the door was OPP |
ened, and in came the queen leaning |
on the arm Of the Landgraye Of Hesse, |
who Is quite blind You could not inn |
agine anything more Informal ana |
pleasant than what happened Her |
majesty came straight up to the piano, |
put out her hand, and shook It'll hope |
that was correct, She chatted TO Miss |
Ashton and myself asking me II liked |
being at the college. and where | came
from. Then Monsieur Lucian Carbon
sat down TO the plano, and the queen |
came close TO us, and followed very |
carefully our singing with the full |
score OF the music I'm front Of her. The |
sat next 10 her. and, after
we had finished she said how much she |
had enjoyed hearing his work. She came
up to me again and spoke I'm n beautiful
low voice, so graciously and kindly that
you would have thought she had known
me all my life She shook hands with
Miss Ashton and myself and thanked
MS for our singing, and then Withdrew
from the room with the Landgrave, We
went down a corridor with some beau
tiful pictures into another room, where
tea was served and about half.p past |
five o'clock | left the palace feeling
very, very proud Of having sung to
Queen Alexandra. ! had only seen her
once before, from window, and 10
think that she had shaken hands with
me and thanked me for my singingl
We American girls all know the queens
portrait, but there are not many who |
have sung TO her, and | can tell you I
lid feel happy Poppa went off and
rabled home TO Ogden the news, and
they will be astonished to hear that
Mamie Tout has been to Buckingham
palace. what did think Of the queeny |
why, Just that she's the lovelIest,
sweetest lady I've ever seen. She was
dressed in a very simple style but
anything would look perfect on her, I
hink, for she has such graceful figure,
could not feel nervous In her pres
,nce. because she was so kind and ap-
1reclatIve. oh, she was sweet"
Queen Alexandra has added one more
conquest to the long list Of those who
rave been privileged TO meet in private,
he first lady In the land, and her ma
esty has today no more enthusiastic |
ldmirer than Miss Mamie Tout, who |
viii never forget the March afternoon
when she had the honor Of singing be-
ore the queen The young singer Is ex-
,ecting 10 revisit the United States
his summer, but l hope that America
viii not rob us Of one who promises TO
70 a very welcome addition 10 the Brit