Lulu Tyler Gates

              Lulu Tyler Gates
Brockway Lecture Bureau, 6101 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA.
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FEW readers have grown into great popularity as quickly as Lulu Tyler Gates.    Few readers are so worthy of it, for after all it is only the unusual talent that lives and grows in demand.    Mrs. Gates is capable of giving an entire evening without a company, but for this season the Bureau has persuaded her to star at the head of a company of such artistic strength as to place them in advance of any popular concert company before the public.    Of Mrs. Gates little need be said.    The remarkable charm of her personality, the strength and richness of her voice, her enthusiasm as an artist, and her high appre¬ciation of the best things in literature, all contribute to insure her unbounded success as a public reader. Miss Edith Adams, the violoncellist, needs but little introduction, her artistic work on this difficult and noble instrument having already won the friendship of both press and public in nearly every part of the country. While in Berlin, she was a pupil of Robert Hausmann of the Royal High School, and later was the protege of the great virtuoso, Heinrich Kiefer of Munich.    So interested was Mr. Kiefer in Miss Adams' talent that he invited her to make her home in his family, which made it possible for her to have almost daily coaching. During this time she won for herself the honor of being the best pupil of the greatest 'cellist of the day. Graham Smith is a newcomer to the Lyceum stage.    He is a basso cantante, possessing a particularly sweet and powerful voice, with a wide range, at all times under perfect control.    He has been a hard student under the best instructors, and has been most successful the past two seasons in special recital work. William Erhart Snyder is a pianist whose intrinsic worth to the profession he has chosen is of the highest order.    Mr. Snyder has been for a number of years an earnest and painstaking student of the art of piano playing.   He studied and taught four years with Hahn in the Detroit Conservatory of Music, four years with
Sherwood in the Sherwood Music School, Chicago, and finished his studies with a course of two years under the tuition of the greatest instructor of the modern school of pianistic art, Theodore Leschetizky of Vienna, at the same time taking a course in musical theory under Professor Robert Fuchs in the Vienna  Imperial  Conservatory.

A prominent writer in a recent issue of the Chicago Record-Herald, says— Lulu Tyler Gates is a remarkable woman. In reading and recitation she gives unmistakable evidence of that indefinable something which soothes, inspires and cheers all who are fortunate enough to hear her. It is impossible to convey in words her power of expression and delivery, her easy, graceful gestures, her ac¬cent, her intonation and her match¬less self-control. They must be seen and felt to be appreciated. There is in her rendition a peculiar charm which leaves eloquently and beautifully unexpressed that which can not be spoken. It is the candid opinion of the writer that Mrs. Gates possesses talents far superior to many whose names have taken first rank among the gifted readers and impersonators of the day. The strong, intense nature and splendid Christian character of this most ex¬cellent woman dominate, control and charm the most critical auditor.
Chicago Daily Journal—Miss Edith Adams in two numbers by Lindner, "Serenade" and " Tarantelle," showed a well developed left hand, a sure and free bow, a very musical tone and excellent taste, while her share of the two chamber music works was adequately done.
EDITH     ADAMS
VIOLONCELLIST
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Dubuque (la.) Times—The program opened with "The Clang of the Forge," which was sung by Mr. Gra¬ham Smith of Galena. Mr. Smith made a great success with this num¬ber. He has a most remarkable voice, rich in quality, and wide in compass. He is a very young singer, but delivered his tones with fine effect. His career will be watched with interest.
Chicago Presto—William Erhart Snyder, the talented pianist who has recently returned to Chicago after a sojourn of two and a half years in Vienna with Leschetizky—gave a recital in Auditorium Hall. That Mr. Snyder has improved his time to great advantage was clearly demon¬strated in his interpretation of widely varying numbers from Beethoven to Liszt.
N. N. Riddell—Lulu Tyler Gates, of Chicago, is a reader of unquestion¬able merit, an artist of great promise. Her platform presence is most charm¬ing. Her voice is strong, clear and well modulated. Her gestures and facial expressions are unaffected and natural as a child's. Her repertoire is of a high class and seemingly in¬exhaustible. After listening to Mrs. Gates in six programs of nearly an hour each in the open air before a Chautauqua audience, I take great pleasure in commending her work-to the public and especially to man¬agers in need of a first-class  artist.
Leland T. Powers—Lulu Tyler Gates has already proved her right to a front rank in the profession. When I heard her, her work was received with great enthusiasm by the au¬dience, and with good reason. She is artistic, unaffected, and with re¬markable dramatic ability.
Munich (Germany) Allegemeine Zei-tung—Miss Adams knows how to place her instrument properly, and with such grace that the severest opponents to women 'cellists are dis¬armed in their opposition. Besides, she combines grace with a most highly estimable technique. She draws from her instrument rich, flowery tones, yet avoids that sad tremulousness that most 'cellists like to give out as feeling. Her exe¬cution throughout is natural, and that of a virtuoso in the best sense. The public was evidently of the same opinion and distinguished the artist with unusually warm applause.
Dubuque   (la.)   Enterprise—Mr.   Gra¬ham Smith of Galena, a pupil of Mr. Pontius, sang the "Armorer's Song" andChaminade's "Ode to Bacchus." Mr. Smith has a resonant bass voice of most excellent quality throughout its entire compass, and he sings with repose and understanding.
GRAHAM    SMITH
BASSO    CANTANTE
Chicago Record-Herald—Mr. Sny¬der is one of the rising young artists of this city and his playing is artistic.
Charles A. Young, Instructor of Se-mitics in the University of Virginia— I take great pleasure in bearing my testimony to the dramatic talent, the artistic culture and finesse of Lulu Tyler Gates. Nature has richly endowed her for the art she so thoroughly loves and faithfully studies. A bright mind, quick in discernment, ready in wit, well bal¬anced and symmetrically developed.
Worker, New York City—Lulu Tyler Gates was a favorite of the evening. Judging from the enthusiastic recep¬tion and the many expressions of favor since, she is destined to meet with great success in her profession. She possesses a clear, musical voice, and recites in a most artistic and delightful manner.
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Munich (Germany) Bayerischer Kurier —Miss Adams, the 'cellist, nobly won her success. She succeeds in drawing from her instrument tones that really go to the heart. Her playing is deeply emotional, yet en¬tirely free from sentimentality or af¬fectation. Particularly sympathetic is her impulsive, spontaneous man¬ner of playing.
Edith Ridd Smith, St. John, N. B.—
It is with great pleasure that I learn you are about to undertake profes¬sional work. Your voice is a bass of wide range, sweet and powerful, and at all times under perfect control. Your work in the past has always been received with enthusiasm and approval, so in the future I predict great results from the judgment of those hearing your voice, especially in solo work. I shall follow your career with interest.
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Detroit (Mich.) News-Tribune—Mr. Snyder has given concerts in Detroit and the larger cities in Michigan with marked success. His recital em¬phasized the fact that his playing fairly challenges comparison with any pianist heard here this season.
F. L. Jones, Indiana State Superin¬tendent Public Instruction—I wish to commend most heartily Lulu Tyler Gates, of Chicago, who gives to her audiences an entertainment of very high order. In many re¬spects she excels readers of wider repute, and gives, on the whole, the most satisfactory readings I have heard. Her delightful reading, choice selections, varied program and happy manner combine to make her entertainment interesting and in¬structive as well as pleasurable. I do not know of an entertainer whom I can recommend more highly.
New York Evening Post—Lulu Tyler Gates charmed the audience with her beauty and unusually fine recitations. Mrs. Gates possesses more than ordinary talent, or rather an extraordinary gift for recitations and is spoilt by none of the manner¬isms of the ordinary elocutionist. Her great charm is her perfect nat¬uralness.
Chicago Daily News—Miss Edith Adams, the violoncellist, plays with a sympathetic coloring that is simply wonderful.

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Galena Gazette-magnificent.
Chicago Chronicle — Thursday eve¬ning William E. Snyder gave a recital in Steinway Hall. Mr. Snyder is a promising young artist. He has a fine technique. He received a double encore.
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W. D. MacClintock, Professor En-glish Literature in the University of Chicago—An attractive public reader should have: First, a clear, vibrat¬ing and powerful voice; second, a strong, flexible physical appearance; third, the clear mind of a literary student to grasp the exact shade of humor, pathos, eloquence, or cour¬age in a character or scene; and fourth, a high degree of both imita¬tive and dramatic power. Lulu Tyler Gates has all these and more. She has a vivacity and charm o" manner that turn all these into de¬lightful entertainment.
G. P. Coler, Professor of Biblical Literature, University of Michigan— I heard Lulu Tyler Gates give six readings at Fountain Park Assembly this year. Her time on program was 4:30 to 5:30 p. m., just after the au¬dience had listened to some noted lecturer for an hour or longer. But she held the audience day after day with growing interest, and a large number remained to hear her ?ach day. She is a gifted woman, and her power as a reader and imperson¬ator is very great—far beyond that of most people who appear on the platform in that role.
St. Louis (Mo.) Republic—There are few severer tests than this work, (Rubinstein Concerto) calling for sheer execution. Considering, never¬theless, its excessive and a1most superlatively difficult nature, and the variety of its technical demands, Miss Adams' rendition demonstrated superior powers. This is too faint praise, indeed, for her playing of the delicate adagio part. In the second number, composed of three Popper selections, "Romance," "Papillon," and "Tarantelle," her playing, es¬pecially in one of them, her develop¬ment of the melodious richness and harmony in the chords delighted, and the audience's encore was hearty.
J. S. Le Gear, Pastor First M. E. Church, Jackson, Mich.—It has been my good fortune to hear Mr. Graham Smith sing many times, and always with the greatest of pleasure. In my estimation, his deep, rich bass voice has wonderful possibilities of development. It is a voice possess¬ing remarkable compass and strength for one so young, yet always possess¬ing a rare melodious sweetness. His splendid vocal and musical ability, together writh his manly charm of character, make him deserving of public confidence wherever he may go.
Kenosha (Wis.) Evening News-Many people of this city enjoyed a rare treat last night in the way of a recital by Wm. Erhart Snyder of Chicago. The concert was one of the most artistic musical events ever given here.
WILLIAM
PIANIST
HOLLISTER   BROTHER8, ENGRAVER8  AND   PRINTERS, CHICAGO