"Open The Gates Of The Temple" <br /><br />Song by Fanny Crosby and Mrs Joseph F. Knapp <br /><br />Maybe you know the version by Richar Crooks or by Even Williams. <br /><br />Open the gates of the Temple, <br />Strew palms on the Conqueror’s way <br />Open your hearts, O ye people, <br />That Jesus may enter today <br /><br />Hark! from the sick and the dying, <br />Forgetting their couches of pain, <br />Voices, glad voices, with rapture are swelling, <br />Are swelling, are swelling a glad refrain! <br /><br />Paul Dufault, tenor <br /><br />Paul Dufault, born on December 10, 1872, was the most successful singer to come from Quebec. <br /><br />He is now forgotten since he did not have an important opera career--also, his recordings did not sell well. <br /><br />The tenor was born in Ste-Hélène-de-Bagot near St-Hyacinthe, Quebec. <br /><br />His career was confined to the concert platform, and he should not be confused with the French dramatic tenor Jean Dufault, who sang with Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera. <br /><br />Paul Dufault worked with Gustav Mahler, and the two men exchanged correspondence. <br /><br />He died in 1930.
