sentences:  Wood at the Queen's Hall, with the London Choral Society, in February 1904.He was chosen to appear at the Festival of Elgar's music under Hans Richter at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, performing "Gerontius" on 14 March 1904 with Kirkby Lunn and Ffrangcon-Davies, and then with Agnes Nicholls, Kennerley Rumford and Andrew Black in "The Apostles", on 15 March of that same year.Elgar, writing to Frank Schuster in 1905, wanted to hear Coates perform the 'Three Holy Kings' scene from Wolfrum's "Weihnachtsmysterium".