Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-12
Special Correspondence.

| Special Correspondence
n r EW YORK. May TT reads
IN like a fairy tale, for It Is only
| VI in fairy tales that princes and
| world famous opera singers hap
| ZEN in TO rescue forlorn maldens In the
| nick of time, yet such experiences arc
, once In a while recorded IN real life.
Saturday afternoon Miss Emma Lucy
| Gates had an appointment 10 sing for
Wolfsohn. at his studio on East Seven
teenth street, Among the many auto
Gratis who daily hear young aspirants
for operate work, Wolfsohn stands
pre-eminently among the first. in fact
he is a regular musical ear in his aug
ust excusiveness, but Miss Gates
turn came. and she took the plunge
with a fiuttering heart The "Rigolet
10" aria was the piece selected The
great maker or unmaker OF prlma dom
mas listened patiently until the piece
was finished, but before he could ex.
press approval or disappTova n thun-
derous sound OF applause burst from an
adjoining ROOM and out rushed CAM
panari. the famous baritone Of tho
Metropolitan opera house, who had been
reading In side room paying no at
teitlon to the managers program.
Rushing up to Miss Gates, he enthusi-
astically congratulated her, and with
out any ceremony, sat down to the pi-
ano as the accompanist arose, and. tax
ing the music went over time and
again, the entire aria, correcting here,
praising there, in short, giving Miss
Gates a good coaching, stopping every
few moments TO eXClaim what purity
OF tonel" beautiful what future, -
and many other expressions. AT ths
finish. he begged her not 10 think Of
going to Europe, but TO stay here. lie
pronounced her voice an exceptional
dramatic coloratura, and said that New
York was the place for her TO make
her appearance Wofsohn at once
tried TO engage her, but Miss Gates
said she was in the hands OF her teach
err, Nine. Ashforth. aud viii rely en-
tirely ON her advice for the present
The piano and song recital given ON
Thursday evening May 3, IN
Carnegie Chamber Hall by Prof.
Eugene Hefhey proved to be an
affair of most artistic merit.
Miss Treat who headed the program, is
unOOuDttlIN " tullilNk FlHNA Hluil0A'i
and equal praise is due Miss Glenn
Priest, the violinste. bat the honors OF
the evening fell to Miss Emma Lucy
Gates who certainly eclipsed all ner
former triumphs IN this city. The
MacDowell suite was so beautifully
done that time and again she was called
To the front, after Nerdi's Caro-
Nome Miss Gates was obliged 10 sing
an encore, the only one accorded during
the evening, so insistent was the audi
ence for a repetition; never has the
young lady shown her powers for oper-
attic work as she did that night The
audience was composed largely of mu-
stefan friends of the three perform
ers, but Prof. Heffley took care to
have those present who were judges qt
Instrumental and vocal training for
the artists sake as well az his own,
and none were SLOW to appreciate the
excellency of the work
Miss Gates moved from the home
OF Mrs. Maj. Pond In Jersey city last
week, and Is now the guest OF Miss
Helen Muhall, on east Fifty-flfth street
for few days, intending TO leave for
her home today or Monday, May Z,
Miss Gates place VIII he hard 10 NIL
here in the Utah circle. 40 ready ~ sho
at all times to give her services for
the entertainment of friends, and In as