Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-09-19
Jenny Lind's First Concert.

The New Workers are quite crazy about
Jenny. We have not room to copy their
rhapsodies, although it must be confessed
there is much curiosity here to know all
about the amiable Swede, and much sympa +.
thy with her triumphs. The Courier and
Enquirer says the concert OH Wednesday
evening was perfectly successful
Between six and seven thousand people
must have been assembled within the walls
of Castle Garden when Mr.. Benedict tapped
upon his stand for the commencement Of his
own overture to The Crusaders.
There was then an impatient interval; the
doors at the back OF the stage opened and a
| young woman a little above the middle
height not very robust in figure, with deep,
earnest blue eyes, mobile mouth express
sing both sweetness and determination, came
rather awkwardly down between the music
stands of the orchestra. The audience i'm
medately burst INTO applause; she curtsied
deeply with a sort of heart>fe,t expression,
and tae audience sprang to their feet, and
shouted, screamed and waved their handker-
chiefs, Till the young woman seemed oppres-
sed with the homage, and, in fact, stunned
with the din.
She was evidently deeply agitated, al
though she looked placidly into the vacancy
OF tile great vault above her; but her checks
were deadly pale, save small flushed spots in
the centre, aud her compressed lips showed
both emotion and restraint. Her agitation
was manifest all through the first movement
OF the cavatlna, in which she failed some
what IN attaining the effects she was evil
IDENTITY striving after. Her phrasIng was
large, simple and natural, and her expression
combined tcrvor and dignity; but there was
an occasional hesitance or break in her Ut
terance, which made us fear that she would
hardly be able 10 get through the air. How
ever, the spell of Jenny Lind was still in her
voice, and the audience ackno wledged, in
the most enthusiastic manner that at last
they had heard what they came TO hear, and
had found it all they expect ted it to be- The
air was well selected by Mile Lind, as the
first in which she should be heard.
Jenny Lind then sang with Signor Belief.
u what was TO US her finest performance,
the Buffo Duet Per pidyucre alta &gnOru,
from IL TtUco IN Italia. We cannot Imagine
any thing more perfectly executed and more
charmlngly beautiful than the piano passa-
ges in this Duet, and to the manner in which
they were sung was added manner in the
singer surely more simple, natural and i'm
pulslve than was ever seen before. In the
second part OF the concert Mile Lind sung
a swedish melody, accompanying herself
Ii was wonderful. The melody was not ve-
ry attractive in itself, and contains remote
and extremely difficult intervals, which the
SINGER took with unerring accuracy, but
which were by no means melodious. The
charm Of The m n pcp * in rho N
of an echo, which Mile Lind executes with
skill which is past all belief save that Oh
tanned by actual hearing. Although the
performance must have been very trying
one, Mile Lind complied with request tor
It's repIIitlon with the utmost Kindness and
readiness, as she did at other times during
the evening.
After the concert Mr.. Barnum was called
out, and informed the audience lbit Mile
Lind gives her share Of the nett proceeds of
the present concert, amounting TO considera-
oily more than $4,000, TO various charities in
the city of New York.
The following is the prize song by Bayard
Taylor, the Greeting 10 America which
Mile Lind sung with good effect
greet with full heart the land of the west.
Whose banner of stars DER world is unrol-
led;
Whose empire o'ershadows Atlantics wide
breast,
And opes to the sunset its gateway of gold!
The land Of the mountain, the land of the lake,
And rivers that roll in magnificent tide
Where the souls Of the mighty from slumbers
awake
died.
Thou cradle of empire! tho wide be the foam
That sewers the land of my fathers and thee,
| hear, from thy bosom, the welcome of home
For song has home in the hearts of the
free!
And long thy waters shall CLEAN in the sum-
AS long as thy heroes remember their scars,
Be the hands of thy children united as one,
,eacp shed hcr 1iuht on tho hammer of