New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-09
Jenny Limbs First Concert.


on Wednesday evening. Iure that there could no
where be higher satisfaction In that kind. The
supreme Soprano Of the time,-a Tenor. now IN
surpassed, although in bis decline, except by
Mario.-snd Baritone who divides with Ron
conf the suffrage Of the musical world, sang to-
eetber. no opera could at this moment have
been mounted upon any stage in the world WIFI
so sure and deserving elements ofsuccess as this
concert. Ii was pleasant to repair TO feast OF
art, sure that it would surpass all genuine ez'
pectation, because the stroke Of genius is always
incalcusble.
There was some crowd around the garden
gate but the arrangements Of the concert were
90 well made, that the vast audience OF 1,oOO
persons was seated by means Of the ushers, with
the utmost ra pidity and ease. At o'clock the
Promensders entered and filed all the space
really available for seeing and hearing. The hall
then looked the worthy arena OF so great tn
umph. A faint fancy of a crowded Coliseum
could not but fit across the mind, with the con-
sciousness of triumph so much truer and that,
the triumph of woman
The moment the Promenaders were still, MIR.
BENEDICT advanced to the front and was most
cordially received. He looks in Perfect health,
indeed be seems to smile anything else to scorn.
The orchestra, with BURKE at the head, then
gave Weber's overture to Euryanthe in the most
spirited manner There was a freshness and
vigor in this performanc that gave the key to the
whole Concert, which did not flag for an instant
during the evening That done, Signor sALyI
and BELLETTI sang the Voglio dire from
! L'Elisir d'Amore BELLETTI looks the same as
when he left US, and sings with the same iulness
richness and ease. signor SALvl we heard for
the first time, and with the most unqualified plea
sure. He il an artist 40 finished so elegant and
and so skillfu. that excepting Duprez, we do not
recall his superior in those points His voice Is
somewhat worn and past It's prime, and with
slight occasional tendency to break, but the genu'
inc artist reveals himself in the care with which
be manages it to the best effect,-in the knowl'
edge of its capacity and awonderful chiaro' Sou
70 Of style, which might be condemned as too
pronounced, il it were not absolutely neces-
ssry TO the peculiar effect he seeks. 1t
is voice sweet and sympathetic in the
| highest degree, and the exquisite ease with
which it Aides into the falsetto gives the
artist an unlimited command of ell his rifles While
Mario surpaIes sALyI in the full freshness OF his
voice, and in the volume of sweet sound he is
not so carefully cultivated. He naturally revels
| il the exuberauce Of power and is more careless
Of the cans which seduce success, after il ceases
to be compelled. In grace and elegance, SALyI
reminds the bearer strongly Of Duprez. There is
nothing meretricious in his manner, and perhaps,
after ALL his disadvantage springs from his advan-
tsge and iS only a too strong consciousness of art
upon the listeners mind
JENNY LIND then bounded forward and bent
with that Characteristic sautation in which the
head is scarcely bowed and the eye does not lose
for moment its command Of the audience. In
that recognition Of applause, which was universal
and cordial, and repeated last evening although
without any tumultuous denomination, there Is
nothing cringng or deprecating, but it is as no.
bic and selfrespectful as the genius which in
spires it. 1t is stately spectacle, that Of thou
sands of men and women from ali parts OF the
| Iano, who h~~s mat before and shall never
meet again. uniting in friendly homage to a
| stranger and woman, whose greatness compels
it. and only Itatelier and more splendid 10 her re-
ception Of it. She was dressed in a magnificent
silk brocade, and wore jeweled bracelets upon
her arm. Upon her bosom she had roses, and
deep dtmask rose in her hair
Jenny LIND looks somewhat wesried, bat she
has never sung more wonderfully well than on
Wednesday evening. The gushing glsdness of sat
sfed love in the Come per serene, from the Som
nsmbua, leaped liymgly from her lips-its satsfac-
ton shadowed only by the languid sadness of joy
In the Introductory Care CompagHe. The audience
was electrified by this, and abe acknowledged
the applause, bat without repeating the song Mr..
BURKE's rich and rare violin solo was hardly he ard
a. it should have been, because of the dying muir.
murs Of delight at the singing, and because his
tone is so delicate and IOft-having entirely eded
the fiddle from his instrument-that the huge hall,
ensmoured, consumed the whole.
signor sALvI then sang the Spirto genlI,
whose exquisite echo fingered through all the
Summer in every listeners memory. As per
Torrance, the singing wAs artistically perfec.
and was equally well rendered upon the uuani.
nous encore. Its Just the kind of music adapted
to this artists organ and skill. He 10 essentially
an Italian singer OF Italian usic, and incompara
bly, the best Tenor we have ever heard in
| America.
We cannot follow the Concert in detail. The
Characteristic Tyrolean duet of JENNY LIND and
BELLETTI-the grotesque overture of Aubsr,
whose genuine melodiousneB is victorious over
the dislike of his fantastic freaks-the sparkling
triS from the Barber-the GipSy's song from Mey.
erbeer'S Camp Of silesis, which drew down the
most electrical encore Of the evening-and the
Bird-song forever fresh and fragrant, cannot be
more noticed.
But in the Last Rose of Summer" jenny
LIND gave another proof Of the truly great artist
None, bat such would have dsred-singing do.
nestle ballad to foreigners in their own tongue
and TO foreigners so full Of extravagant expecta