New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-11
JFNNy LIND IN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA.
From our Resident Correspondent
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pie and column, have been lAvlsheo On Sno ="
rior-upon him who could put the greases. nuro't
oil people 10 death in the shortest sp@oe VI 'l"
Uba ore,t Panorama here Of the Battle Oh Hy'su
rh;oh o,orv traveller should sse) represents among
l.. .,v;fas huge trooper cutting hia way shrouso
,he ensmv; he killed thirty OF them With nus own
b,nd ssvs the story, and was rewarded oy Napo'
49,, ;tb tan thousand francs. This is estimating
human beings az wolves to be exterminased at so
much head but still, Paris, head OF Civilization
rears it's proudess monuments to the Destroyer and
among &C. O0O, 900 Of people selects bis nephew TO
repressnt her in q civil cover. Everything that
shows in America superiority TO these dark and
brutal traditions sbould be esteemed. Under tbis
head are the tributes to Jenny Lind. 1t is a tri6
ute to poetry rendered unto voice; in time the
tribute may be given to mental gifts simply, with
out objective tangible, popular physical endow-
men.s Let her be duly honored she Is good
hearted as well as dueet toned. Many indspusa
BILE incidents are there Of her kindness The mora
woman being disposed Of Let US come to ths artist
She has the sweetest voice Of Europe The word
soprano voice is like movable feast you 90 nov
aAauz .uhara To find it- 1t warrior in oHtens with
each new woman, although the books act down the
range. There are limits beyond which it does not
20, Dub WlLQln tI0 SAHSLuSH IN 9'OIy N1iioty
ofexsent- every difference in the force with which
low notes can be given or the ease with which
high ones can be taken. Jenny Lind's voice Is
eminently hieh-whas the Italians call stogdto or
rather sfogatisSimo. That note represented on the
treble staff by B, resting on the third ledger line
above the Ave lines che can attack and sustain
Seldom does soprano voice reach such hight -
For the same reaaon that the very deep, sonorous,
welllike notes OF bass voice give pleasure min.
eed with admiration, do the highest notes Of 30.
pr1no voice excite delight, but in much greater
degree, for the one 10 profound and awfal-the 9th
or is like bright bird cutting through tho buxom
air while the sun plays on its plumege. Jennys
voice is essentially poetical. The emotions which
IL exotea are similar to those raised at sixteen In
reading aome delectsble passage, Or falling into
fine frenzy with classic face Of the opposite sex
II is entirely pure. The starlight OF an American
sky, the waters of the Wssahioon, before the bru-
tish improvements on it's banks had taken place,
are, and were, not more ethereal toned Ali nature
is harmony, when read Alright. The slight &C
quaintence which we have thus fsr with it's myE.
terieB, the thin husk we have taken off its forms
reveals to us an electric force as the power of mo-
ton That same force represents sound Take a
pleOG OF RiabB, COF6T ~ ~ WIZ otc ny
meang Of touching violin bow drawn across VIC
.in and that done examine with microscope the
forms into which the sand is thrown by this vbra-
ton They will be found to be symmetrical; to be
like the forms Of snow drops as they fall on win
ters day. and are Immediately subjected to the mi
crogoope. They resemble, too the beautiful shapes
OF the kaleidoscope mysteries. Thus sound g cub
jeot to she mathematical laws of motion This par.
allel may be extended to other laws. rhe mya
tory OF a voice, OF ita volume and sweesness is not
IN explained The size Of the throat but not the vol
30 ume Of the cheat Ia necessarily connected with the
breadth OF the tone and the healthy phenomena
of the thorax must be included. But the mystsry
why one voice should csuRe others to pale by its
noble beauties, tie mere tone without involving
mental guidance IN the expression of gong, leaves
as Laundering in that circle OF Pyrrhonisms which
thus far has rounded our LIES being, In this mat
Ser az in others we must leave proitess specua
zion, and enjoy the gifts as they come to US The
aft by excellence is extended to US in the person
of the Swedish songstresG. The guiding goal which
;nfames the tones 10 heavenly warmth, and
placea one in the regions Of ecstacy, are hers.-
Whether 1t is by winding playiully through ohro
matte or diatonc diticuties, swelling on Individual
notes, aiding from to another, starting with
elastic beauty over two ooteves taking the ex.
tremes at bound, she is equally successful, The
whole mechanical technical difficulties of art she
plays with, like Nicholson or DeSilver on she
Aute. Then her expression is genuinoi she sym
pathizes with her composer. The Singers force
lies in ita deep appreciation of the composer II
should be high interpreter of given ideas Such
is Jenny Lind, 1t should be regretted that enny
does not appear on the stage. AS the fish needs
she water-the bird the air-so emmy
the stage / he ard Ia Lucia de Lammermoor ahe
WAS lyIe moistened with divine tears There
was no Of measuring it by rules, OF allo wiUg
calculation cridcan to cone into the matter, 1t
was quits as near perfection as humanity can hope
10 reach The character and the music ware
just suited to her. IL w6s love and broken.hearei
ove-ihe Two things which will always most In
terest man and woman-notw outstanding seven.
eighths of the smart literature and all the outside
Talk OF aoclesy make game Of these old fashioned
thipgs day or two after saw Jenny Lind at
2he concert. The charm Of the dramatic idesliza
ton was gone. ltwag like the second stanz & OF
,oft in the Silly night. Ii was tue banquet hail
deserted the theater turned into 3 concert room.
The charm of lamp light aud the duice far nients
OF the evening into change hours and she religion
of the counter. A concert is matter OF fact An
opera, the region of fancy, the platform of history
sweetened by music, Not that such voice as
Jenny Lind possesses is pot always delightful ;
but then she hss exquisite talents for the ,tage
she Looks innocence because she is innocenti uhe
is arch gentle, intense eloquent, graceful soul ab
so,bed and merses herself utterly in the character
she represents Her resolution, il final, OF quitting
the stage is to be regretted What she is on if no
one can judge by hearing her amply in concert