New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-27
Jenny Isud.

one place. In O CreScehd0 series Oi SlA AuA'D
meetings, ahe has act thous nds and thousands Of
soulg vibrating with the sweetest JOY OF neo4y
In the brief respite given US until her return from
Boston, it is pleasure calmly to review this new
experience, and, if possible, identify and analyse
the permanent impression jenny LIND has lett
upon us az q singer and IN artist
/ In the first place voice. whose every tone IN
point of quality nearer to the ideal Of pure
Tone. than We bad thoughtit possible for any tones
10 come and still retain the charm and temper of
an Individual humanity. We speak now of that
intrinsic quality of tone considered in its very
texture and ultimate fibre, which characserizes it
independently of ell external ractability or polish
Tones may be intrinscaly sweet and musical
like pure gold, and yet come TO us, as it were, in
the rough ore, es hag been frequently the case
with BEEEDETTIs tenor. Such, even IN their
rough and primitive state, are far more satisfying
than the most smooth and finished tones that seem
to have no hardwood in them. JENNY LISD's
tones are sweet and aolid to the core. There il
the stuff of munic in them which can never be re-
fined away. They indicate at once tte most COM
pact and the most pable material of Art.
To the refining and perfecting Of these richer
than golden elements-to the rendering taem
trscable in their serieH, and each symmetrical and
whole and discreet in itself, there seem to have
cons pred most plenteously in her strong muaich
temp erameEt-a native instinct of the Beausfal-s
deep, pervading spirituality Of bookkeeping the
ewes OF intellect still purged and unconfused--an
incorporating taste artistic conscience, and an
unrelaxing energy of discipline in the beat schools
We have had to 20 into all this metaphysical
5p6i fo hnr n1pc e.
how utterly in contrast with the mere mechanical,
"a the production OF such q voice. Its purity ID
proved in the fact that ita tones go so far. When
we remarked to her that not one vibration OF her
softest and most diminished tones-not the mose
faint and minute fortuna was ever lost in any cor
ner OF that vast Castle Garden Miss LIND modest
" replied: " That proves how excellent hall it is
for gound." We could have answered, that still
more it proved with what a vital certainty her
voice must vibr&te thus to impress It's vibrations
upon every particle Of air in such vast incosure
Then as to register and compass, as every critic
has told u.s. ii is one OF the genuine high sopranos,
Arm and full and sweet and telling even to she r
in alt or higher-rich and evenly developed
through the middle notes, with sufficient character
10 the notes below the lines, though not, of course,
possessed of that strong reedy, pasalon-fall con-
trauo, which, it has been truly said, has been so
apt to electry an audience in me7zo sopranos like
Tedesco. The registers blend imperceptibly
| though there il something in the accent OF her
loudest voice Of that sort of Tyroean Yodsl which
! marks her northern and her mountain origin, and
which we find both musical and characteristic. In
her pionissim0, or halfvoce, she trayeraeS scales
up and down--even the chromatic, with the most
fluid and unbroken precision, like an instrument
which graduates, but still preserves, one quality o.
tone through all its ootaves.
But after ALL the great charm OF that voice
to ua ii Its extreme purity of tone, which goea
10 far and tells 30 infalliby, and seems to come
always cut OF the inmosi depth Of a aoul in har-
mony with nature" deep caleth unto deep
To record its inetable sweetness, ID but to vary
the same statement. In our first hasty sketch
we called 1t slightly yelled: the term was too
positive and might mislead we only meant that
there was no crudeneas, hardness, ahrillness
In those pure tones no unmtigated glare and that
we never miss in them that genial and artistic
property W hich we call tone in paintings. Ample
quantity or volume, and strength always tractabe
to the least suggestion Of taste or feeling, seem to
be the ne KIT main attributes
@ 80 much for the organ in itself, though in at
tempting to daguerreotype it's lineaments with our
rough apparatus, we have necessarily anticipated
something under the next head, which is EXECu-
TIos. OF this, perhaps enough has been said and
written We have seen some slight exceptions ia
ken to her voice, but not one 10 her vocalzaslon'
which is commonly admitted to be unrivalled, saw
Ing the proseats Of here and there hyper-criticsl
and unreceptve Frenchman. In execution she
has all the dsuntless hardihood Of the Labordes
and Bishops, and essaya all sorts OF difficulties
with joyful elasticity OF temperament which
would max them natural and interesting even it
she achieved them with less consummate
ease and grace In the earliest and latest daily
exercise of the vocalist, In the delivery Of a
perfect scale which, to attain ia as hard ga TO get
the rght swe Of an architectural column, her suc.
cess ID so uniformly remarkable that it seems an
inspiration In the arpsggio the trlll the mordente
and sl forms of cadenza she is sngularly perfect.
Her intonston is fAultless. She will commence on
very high note after long rest, with perfect pre-
siaion and tirmness. and sustain il unwsyerirgly
upon that level. She proongs the most liquid
and distinct trill soto uoce in the zame manner.
She graduates her foroa and volume with such
mastery Of swell and vanish Of the voice, that the
undulsting curve of beauty gives life and sym
metry to every phrase and passage. She closely i'm.
tatea, while she humanizes the audible beauty Of
nature, the wsrbls Of birds, the mountain echoes
and al that
And what of al that some will aHk, and we
have asked it before nos in the case of severalrs
mArkable caatatriet: why enumerate this bar.
zen catalogue Of technicaties These mechani
cal implements and arts of the bravuFa ainger are
In themselves but lifeless means of that inspired
thing we call Art. Yet every great singer has
coveted complete possession Of them They are