The New York herald., 1850-10-10

hNHf LIND ihihD coscSkT IN Bosros.
BosToN, II O'clock P. M. Oct. 4. 1850

The great warbler, who has delighted and a,
tonisAed Boston with her songs for the last week
added another laurel to her brow last evening Sh
: excelled herself, and New York has yet to hea
her in her best performances.
The character of the audience at this concert wa
rs her different. Hitherto it consisted chiefly O
cith ems of Boston tonight vast proportion of i
was om the cities and towns of New England
brouph, here by the fame of the Nightingale, and
| fearing tn, ~ would never have the opportunity Of
hearing her again. Among those present was an
| aged Vermouler, who stood right in front of the
stage. with a @ ,arse 0vercoat, without cravat,
| and W. airing lone beard. He presented curious
contrast 10 some OF he white kid exYusites around
him He stood up an gazsd and gazed upon the
face of Jenny Lind, ana sui his wonder grew till
| he seemed utterly lost in asfonishmenf.
The cowtdfr1ce was received with rapfrf6us ap-
| plause making her appearance on the stage to
| sing Prendi per me" hom O9nlzetu's" L'Ehsir
o'Amore." She was taste fully dressed, and ookeJ
| exceedingly well, Notwithstanding her iadisPesi-
| ZION, and that she had been bathing her temples
with cold water for two hours before the concert
commenced All seemed delighted with her fine,
| expressive, open countenance, beamiDg with joy
| and benevoence. There was sovereign beauty
in it that casts into the shade mere hne features,
without the animating soul. Many ladies ex-
claimed ;aa Is .hs no! pretty Dear me- was
She did not sing the scena from Donizetti's opera
| as well as might be expected from her great
powers; and many who had not heard her before,
| and did not know from experience what she can
| do, felt somew what disappointed.
The truth Is that, In that building, 1t requires
double the effort to sings and, after all. is COM
Parative failure. In the case of Miss Lind, before
| her notes were half given out, they rushed back
into her threat, and, with the hot, close air Of the
place. half che ked her Add to this that SO
intense was the headache she felt that every high
note she sung seemed to pierce her brain. Yet she
trrumphed over all those difficulties; and even in
the first song there were touches Of beauty that
told the musical ear there was power far greater
behind, which did not, or could not then, lei itself
| out
| In her next performance, "Non mi dr. from
| the opera Of" Don Giovanni" by Mozart, she vla-
| dcated her empire over the human heart as the
| queen Of song She sung il with energy and
! spirit, and brancy Of execution peculiarly her
| own. She was encored with the greatest enthusi-
asm, and sung it a second time with greater fire
| than before.
| In the duet by Fiovaranti, known a" The Sing
| ing Lesson" she showed so much delIcacy of
comic delineaton, such splendid vocalization, such
marvellous capacity Of sustaining her voice in the
| lrills, that the audience laughed, admired, and
| finally burst into the most ,umultuous applause
| This beautiful performance, in which Beeiti so
| well sustained his part, was encored
She sung Benedcrs ballad, "By the sad sea
waves, very expressively. In the first s,anza her
tones were as paintve as 7" the moaning of the
waves over hope and pleasure gone" In the Sc
cond, when the dream of home upon her smlled,"
with the sentiment Then the transition to the
awakening in her grave, was exqusilely marked
And finally, the aspiration
| "Come again, dear dream,
So peacefully that smiled
| was sung with an appealing fervor that touched
| the heart to its core. The mechanical execution
was very fine, and her isping pronunci ston was
| most sweet The Swede improves every day in
| her singing Of English ballads.
The great numph Of the evening was the " Bird
| Song" composed expressly for her by!Tauber, in
! German, and translated into English She sung
the translation with tuch sweetness, beauty, aud
power, as 10 cast all her other feats isGo the
shade. The sentiment Of the song is descrip-
tive Of the Swedish warbler herself, while the mu-
sioal composition is designed to give scope TO the
combined excellencies of her wonderful voice Those
who have aot heard the Bird Song" know not
yet what Jenny Lind Can do. The audience were
in an ecsiacy, and the people from the country
who never heard her sing before, nor perhaps asy
other good vocalist, scarcely knew whether TO
think her sn angel or woman. The cheering,
clspping of hands, stamping Of feet, and shouts OF
"bravo," continued for several minutes, and ade
mendous. She had 10 sing the song again, in re
| spopse to the calls from thousand tongues, when
| the came tempest OF excitement swept the house.
| The following is the song:-
Birding Why sing In the forest wide,
Csn'st thou the rid-sroom or The Brids'
| And Why And whyi"
| Il call no Bridegroom call no Bride,
| Although sipg In forest vide
Nor know Why am singing"
Birding Why IL thy heart 30 blest'
nu,io o'erno.ing from thy br.sst'
Oh. sayg Oh say
My heart is full. and yet Is light;
Ny heart IL glad in day or night.
Nor knov Why I'm singing
Birding Why sing you all tho day
oh, t.ill Oh tell
Do any listen TO thy lay,
Oh. tell' Oh t.ll'n
care not what my song may be;
Now this now that-T varb- fres,
Nor know, yet must be singing"
Bouquets were thrown on the stage from all di-
| rections, together with beautiful garland. The
excitement was most extraordinary.
| Mrs Lind caught cold at Ca Cambridge Observa-
tory, on Monday night, and she still labors under
the effects. She ought TO be more cautious in this
| climate.
She has been visited by the poets Longfelow
and Sergeant Rev. Mr.. Lithrop, Rev. Mr. Robin.
son, Rev Mr.. Clincb, Rev. Mr.. Lambert, Rev.
| Mr. Y. Flasianus, and Nasseef TheedoeJy, from
Mount Lebanon, Syria Mr., Amos Lawrence,
brother Of The minister MI. James Lawrence his
@. 5. Hillard, Mr.. James, the novelist Hon.
/ Benjamin seayer, Mr. Thatcher, the Danish con-
sui; Mrs T. Il. Wales, Mrs Charles Tracy, Mrs.
George HillrTd, Mrs. 5. X. Lathrop, Mrs. Charles
| Sioodard, and many Others, ri high standing She
worried with vsiters, and applications for charity
| She has no rest.
Everybody speaks Of her goodness and her
| charity, and thousands OF religious people 20 10
hear her, who would not be nduced, Tor any con-
sideration, TO attend the concerts Of any other
singer She will thus spread the refining influence
| OF music in quarters where IL very much
wanted-among spurious. pretentious sristocracy
i hnd that the Boston critics agree with the
Herald in giving her singing ofMeyerbeer's ttsd,pfo
tdscai, from Robert le itble," the highest place
among her performances. All musical people
have seen speak in bsuadl-ss eulogy Of this, while
they differ about her other feats, some prtfening
one, and some another. II was in this song Of
| "Alice" that she made the first great impression
/ in London, and the music and sentiment seem
more suited TO her genius than anything else
have heard her sing The most unfavorabIe OF the
| cntques have seen say this song was "given by
| her with most bevltching beauty" IL rs In this
| description Of melody she SHINES mest brightly
| she has a tne conception Of the beautiful and
| sublime, and her tones indicate well spring of
pure perennial feeling, gushing from depth far