The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-10

| DENTAL election.
MUSICAL ENTHUSIASM, CRITICISM, Critics, AND
PRIME DoNNE.-In this city we have three Of the
or, Attest vocalists of Europe. There is Parodi the
soul of tragic opera; Jenny Lind, the genius of the
comic lyric stage; and Anna Bishop, the high
| priestess Of the oratorio We have given already
sketches of the triumphs of the first two. In our
columns will be found history of the latter
Such talent and genius in this metropolis, at one
time, of course creates vast public interest Towns
far in the interior are sending deputations, every
day, to listen to these great ARTISTS Here is
private letter from town on the Connectic river,
which gives an insight into the provincial excite
ment-
All the town has been to hear Jenny Lind Madame
Bishop, and Parodi. The E-s, Mr.. C, and seve-
raj others started on Monday and win return
Friday alter hearing Jenny and Parodi. Sabra and
Mary Jane. and ten or twenty more, went yesterday
They urged me to go with them. When shal come,
prefer opera to concerts and must hear Parodi as
well as Jenny Lind. great many went from North.
ampton yesterday They went, got their tickets for
Luthera and Emily are going next week SO a. TO he
there on Wednesday to hear Parodi and Jenny Lind
They will stay two or three days.
Now, such being the public enthusiasm for the mu-
seal art, public criticism should be faithful There
have been some unmanIy and ignorant specimens
OF musical criticism in several papers The Tribune
has been exceedingly coarse and ungenerous to-
wards Parodi. The attacks have exhibited an
ignorance of the dramatic and music al art quite re.
| masLable. No one could believe that the criue
knows anything about music or the vocal art He
certainly knows nothing about voices and actually
judges the portrature of the rude primitive Druidess
10 be q part of the nature of Parodi herself The
"wilful nature, unto grsssness, was an imputaton
on the private character Of the filial and gentle
minded Parod that has no justification, even in
malice. 1t is not by such aids that Jenny Lind is
TO be exalted. Jenny Lind needs no such advocates
In giving Parodi her just deserts as an arists, Jenny
Lind's qualities are not abridged. We heard Jenny
Lind in London. These small critics have never
heard her The concert room sthe pattern card
OF her great excellence She has no superior as an
artistic, in comic opera. In her own role, she is
wonderful, beautiful, and brillisnt-just as Parod
is in hers In her acting she is great-as great as
Psrod in the tragic style. The 7ribuws critic
knows nothing about her, therefore, and much less
does he know about music generally. The small
and long critic Of the Co1t1 and Enquirer, is
equally in error in his estimates. He knows not
how TO appreciate great merit. Accustomed to
hear second and third rate vocalist all his thoughts
level 10 Laborde as the standard of excellence
Sometimes he speaks Of Grisi, whom he has never
hear6-tometimes he speaks Of a perfect express
sion grin sometimes Of the most wonderful
and dramatic shake the emanation of a tea ket.
! tt-nsd thus goes on from one gressuess to an
other, till he shows himself as incapable ofdescrb.
ing the iriunlhs Of great voc Alist and actress
as he s Of apprecating them II is an abuse Of the
term to call such writers musical critics They
know nothing about criticism Mixed no with
clilues, they gather ell sorts Of opinions and are
never found in the same place Their estimates
are eTonsous as election returns in the first
heat Of the connc-Eow one way, now another
How ever they are rather small game-and only
Fl, subjects for rdicule and laughter. They cannot
affect the glorious career TO which Parodi is des-
| tined-Psrodi, who has passed triumphantly
through TIA y and London, performing Norma five
consecutive nights in the British metropolis, and
her other roles, through the last season, with
a success undiminished by that of Jenny Lind or
Son,ag.
Now all these arfisto are truly wonderful in
their way. Parodi is the greatest tragic artistic
and vocalist on the stage-Jenny Lind the undis-
put,d mistress of comic rdes-snd Anna Bishop
the head and front Of oratorios. Their styles are
different Each is an artistic perfectly finished in
her peculiar line and detracton Of one cannot ex-
alt the other. They should all be heard, and when
they are listened TO with true sympathy and adm-
ration for art-without which there can be no cr-
tcism-e each will charm the auditor. Parodi has
the advantage, because she has the stage-but
/ when she appears in the concertroom, she will
stand on equal ground with her illustrious com
soag.