New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-23
CITY ITEMS.

of last Thursday evenings Conceet, re exprshssd
our belief that i. would be impossible to crowd
larger audience into Cattle Garden. That We were
mistaken, was fully demonstrated on SATURDAY
night. The Hall was completely packed from
top to bottom and not leas than 5000 persons could
have been within the Castle walls. From TIL
o'clock the audience poured into the gste in one
solid stream which, branching out into the par
oueite and balconies, rapidly filed the vast semi
circle of seats
A mistake was made in postponiDg till o'clock
the admission Of the holders of promenade tickets
About fifteen hundred Of such tickets had bsen
sold, and the crowd increased on the outside 70
such an extent that those who held aeats we're un-
able to get through. The consequence was that
all passed in together, and the former in such a
body that in spite OF the ushers, they took imme
date possession of the aisles and before the over
ture commenced made descent upon the vacant
seats The proceeding was most ahamefaii the
partea cor cerned acted more like rowdles than
gentlemen, as many Of them appeared to be-
They bore down the ushers, who struggled man.
fully to keep them back, and rushed forward, IN
many instances actually trampling over ranks OF
persons already seated. We have rarely witness
ed more disgusting exhibition of seiiahneas and
rudeness. 1t would be well, hereafter, either to
stop the sale Of promenade tickets, or to have
strong police force stationed inside the hail. 1t 10
unsafe to trust longer to any native sense OF de-
cency. What We witnessed on Saturday evening
has impressed us with the notifying conviction
that it cannot be depended upon.
There ia another point to which we would car
the attention of the ushers. The fact of two per
sons holding tickets for the same seat, may have
been occasioned in acme instances by persons re-
tanning the ticket-end with the number of asat
from previous Concert, buying promenade ticket
for admission and thus retaking possession of the
same seat. This could alwaya be prevented, of
course by noticing the date of the ticket but when
the usher is occupied in keeping back an aggres-
sive crowd, this is not always possible. We have
no doubt most of the instances OF double claims on
aeats have been occaaioned in this manner.
We cling to these Castle Garden Concerts as
events the like OF which may not aoon come again
The Nightingale may sing in halls OF much more
musical dimensions, to audiencsB select aud closely
gathered within the more immediate clrcle OF her
potency: audiences nok too large to keep stlll and
halls where each accompanying instrument may
have some chance, as well as her miraculous voice.
of sood hearing. But to Castle Garden is re
served this sublime spectacle OF q whole people
az 1t were worshpiDg at the shrine OF Art, and re-
ceiving the voice OF Art sc that of deep calling
unto deep" JENNY LIND 10 evidently most her
self aud moat inspired when she sings moAt for all.
Hence every one at Cattle Garden has bsen struck
with q certain providential fitness in that unique
locality and spectacle of her first American Fri
umpha. Every one has blessed the accident; and
it liz only prefersng the spirit TO the letter Of purs
musical prophecies. to own that we would willing
" sacrifice something Of mere musical effect to
have her Concerts all continued on 80 large soae.
The triumph has been fwo-fold fret, the highest
refinement of Art, not only achieved bat personiHed
before up; and, secondly, 20 complete and Justify
the beauty thereof, the wideat possible and hearth
est reception of it. We have never y snessad in
this practical and busting world, such an ackuoW-
ledement that Art and Beauty do most intimately
concern us all
With all this satisfaction from these Concerts as
great popular events, DO less than exhibitions OF
Art we have still TO ask ourselves: What lack
we YETI Not any thing in the voice, the
style, the inspiration of the singer. Not thas
We are no nearer to becoming converts to
the critics who call her cold, and talk of her
voice as Northern and impractlceble, the despar
of Garcia, &C. But what we have foaad lack
ing, most especially at this last Concert was pro-
eramme OF such music as could engage the noolest
energies of her whole soul. In Saturdays pro-
gramme there was acarcely piece which could
be regarded as thaa a graceful aud Ingenious
play Of the voice. These pieces, to be sure, as VIC
ad Aala nd
much more than mechanical talent in the
ton but they could not, in the nature of the case
however sung fllup tina" void of emotions, which
we hear talked about. They have proved the YER
satility of Jenny Lind. Indeed, the graceful
abandon with which she gives herself to them ID
creditable to her humanity for they are plainly not
ambitious feats of skill with her, but simply the
easy exuberance other glad artist nature genius and
character are often beat revealed in play These
arts are her means, and not her ends. It would
be unjust to seek in them the whole significance O.
this great musical and morafact, called Jenny Lind
They only show how eXquisitely and completely
she is furnished for the nooler ends of Art beyond
all this, and to which she has already several times
but not uniformly addressed herself in the course
of these Concerts, always succeeding when she
tries But the programmes have been arranged
with too timid and exclusive eye to gratifying
public taste The great singer has been allowed
comparatively few chances of doing her bsstshings
except in the way OF skill. Only here aud therea
fragment Of the really great music has been given
her to interpret; whereas only in the inserpreta
ton of such can she be sl hersef to us.
Blu. to quit generalizipg, the best thing, as mu
sic, in the last Concert, was the solid picturesque
0a..--A q. ~. Il .A.nLsit~-nna Of the halfdnzan