The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-24

Brighton in Big Cottonwood canyon
ture will furnish the scenery, which
VIII be more beautiful, more gorgeous
than the brush of any scene painter
could depict, and with all the majestic
surroundings of nature and clad in
mountain garb, as will be those who as
slst her, Miss Gates will sing. And
when her magnificent voice rings out
at an altitude of 500 feet the echo
Will be re-echoed again and again. II
Will be such concert as can be given
nowhere else In the world and while
sputtering lamps and candles and great
wood fires, for it is cold at Brighton
at night, will shed light, there will
be the sllvery light of the moon, which
has Just passed its. full, to add to the
illumination, and this with the natural
surroundings will serve to emphasize
the wild grandeur of the scene without
the building and the witchery of the
scene within
And here, surrounded by her friends
the friends of her youth, Of her girl,
hood, of her womanhood, with her faith.
er and mother and other close relatives
by her side, there is little doubt but
that this song bird will sing as She
never sang before. Will "The Last
Rose of SUMMER fall less deliciousIy
on the ear because the singer s hand
fondles pale wild rose rather than
the American Beauty rose whose petals
strewed the stage of the Salt Lake
theater two weeks ago? Wil the Lucia
sextette strain heart and ear with its
haunting memories in the rude walls
of the summer hotel as poignantly sweet
as when ,atmosphered with mimic seen.
cry, glaring footlights and crashing or
chestraG Who can tell9 Certainly moth.
ing has ever stirred and moved all
Brighton TO enthusiastic anticipation
as does the Forthcoming concert of Miss
Gates.
The crudely painted signs which dec
crate both store and hotel in Brighton
announcing the event are quite in keep.
ing with the true Bohemian-nay, not
Bohemian, but western American
spirit of the whole thing Credit for
this concert must be given to George
i. Odell, who has done everything DOS
sible to further the idea and to make
the thing success.
One Of the wealthy cabin dwellers
of Brighton proposed to Miss Gates
managers to auction off the first five
rows of seats, himself offering SO for
his own seat.
A lady admirer asked her friend
how Miss Gates could afford TO give a
concert in so small place. ':Because
i'iNhuS Will HlS inc Iull worth
for their seats rather than the stated
prices was the quiet reply.
"Why is it," asked another. "that
Miss Gates can draw such audiences
when we have many other lovely voices
in UtuhGD
"Every note above A on the clef, -
was answered, ''is the rare note in a
singer S voice that is worth its every
sound in round dollars; moreover, other
singers will not work to secure the rare
and beautiful trill which marks all
florld passages in the great coloratura
parts in operas. 1t is the staccato, the
high pianissimo tones, the bird like
trills, the, runs, the exquisite delcacy of
tone production and sureness Of attack
In short, the whole coloratura tech.
nlque which sets Miss Gates in a class
TAR above the mere possession of a
beautiful voice. Add to these cultured
powers the gift Of charm and personal
beauty and the full answer is made ;,
In CONNECTION with the two concerts
given by Miss Gates in Utah, il might