Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-09-19

1oNCthI'- NC niSt iuil fo"cateai w '"eA
Grand Concert for to morrow night too
place yesterday at Castle Garden. Jddg-
ing from the effect produced upon the few
who heard il, we should guess that the
no ders Of tickets will not consider them
100 dearly purchased. As a pafia relief
10 the general curiosity concerning this re-
hearsal, we give the impressions of
friend whose musical experience entities his
opinion TO respect
We have just returned from Jenny Linds
first grand rehearsal. We went there
by no means strongly rrejudced in her
favor. We have returned anolher man.
Unfortunately, (for ourseIves,) we ar
rived too late to hear the 'CdSfa Diud,"
or at least the whole of it, but the conclu-
ding passages surprised us no little. Still
we had our doub's about her, when she
began to sing with Sienor Bellei, the Duo
from ~ Trchi in Haia." Before it was
over, we had almost entered another world1
we hardly believed ,ha, human voice conld
accomplish what the Swedish vocalist made
palpable to our ear Such perfect exccu-
,ion, such invariably true, even and cor
rec, in.ona,ion, such natural expressions in
all the middle and lower reg ster Of her
voice "a par. which We expected TO find
defcient) we never heard before.
We have heard many may, nearly all tho
great vocalists Of our a e; we were there,
and ready to draw comparisons we were
cool and unprejudicet, bu, she completely
disarIned US of criticism.
We have spoken of the middle and low
er part OF her voice the upper we ex.
pected Of course, TO find remarkably bril-
liant, dashing and effective. Strange as il
may seem, We found il neither brilliant nor
dashine in tine common acceptance of the
terms, but effective, beyond all conception.
And herein, five may be lowed to Judge
from mere rehearsaD consists its great al
traction. She does all this wi,hou, seem
ing effort. The Nightingale, TO which she
has been justly compared, dos no, pour
ont its melody With more ea>e, It's notes do
not gush forth with more free lon and cor
rec,Hess according 10 NaiuTes pitch aud
scale, than do Jenny Lind's, according to
| Au's strctcst rules.
oh TN bnS
tina, we were not alone in our enthusiam,
we would mention that at the close of the
frs, part of the Tio Concertante for the
two flutes and voice, lin which MIR. Siede,
one of the finest futsts of the age, plays
second flute, y the orchestra came TO a dead
stop. They had been listening 10 the vo-
calls, and had forgot their parts and all elso
There they stood with open mouths, until
Mr.. Bene let told them that they "Tuss
no, listen, if they wanted to play their
parts" And lha, orchestra con aimed
George 1t der, who layed the doub'e bass,
and Theodore Eisieldi, both well known
| conductors and not easily carried away by
enthusiasm. In The Trio, her voice not on
" could no, be distinguished from the flute,
absolutely was an improvement on it, and
of the three nigh,inga!es supposed TO be-
heard then, she was unquestiOnably the
best. An incident occurred during the
Trio which deserves notice. At a pause,
the bell of a steamboat at the landing near
by, struck thrice and happened to strike
at the exact pauses in her song. At first
we ourselves though it was an orchestra
effect, so pecieclly did its clear toLes har-
monise with the voice Of the son 2s,ress----
The bell happened to be exactly in tune,
aud striking the same note with her, and
the echo at fret deceived s'l the listeners.
Her d. in alt, clear, beautiful and brilliant,
nigh, have been heard at half miles
distance But we will not iorstall our
readers enjoyment for Wednesday night
Yet We canno, close this article without
word about Mr.. Benedict, and Sig Bel
letti The .ormer is well known to all Of
us BY his works the latter, We can as
surs our readers, is among Barito les what
Jenny is among Soprani, at least as far as
we have heard in this couniry.-N. York
Tribune.