The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-01-22
jenny Linz.

HAvANAs January IA 1851.
Md'ls Lind arrival in Hayana was on Saturday week
ana % s me TRUTH the two coneer which she has already
given have effected musical revolution on the san Some
lew Of the leading families were polite her, and
deed the Condo Santa Fenia placed his palace at her dis
posal, the very morning Of her arrival This hoyeyer
sns eeeneu win many thanks The remaining phrioH OF
the hahaneros thing bat graciOusy DISPOSED to-
wards er Tbs fact is, that they regarded the whs affair
as speculation Of Banums and measured her nts with
the came scale they would have applied 10 Tom Thumb
Neither was the press on the island whit liberal
was true that the Fero cordial in the extreme nor was
the Gdeefadeia Ha5ana lees friendly but the iris said to
1e IN the employ OF MART the operate manager and the
Prensd, which very certainly was So were in son degree
hostile Indeed the editor Of the last name paper expressed
himself to me in the possible terms Of admiration
after the rs concert and what my astonisim to
read IN his journal gentemany hint that JeAny Lind
no better singer than Steanon The man utnsthaye
been derious when he wrote this
&FndRy the evening Of the first concert Jdnny had
said while at rehearsal. All, ! sing here. And she
entered the theatre determined overthrow all The pFofnos
LEGATIONS and evil omena which had been venursd oh BY the
Habaneros.
The t air which had been selected for her Caro-
Compagne," from the Somnambna.1 As f9F he over.
tue e was badly played and not listened by he major
portion OF the audience Even Bellett's Sorgsts" fell
dead amongst them. i scarcely called forth hand So
iesba indeed was the appaute bestowed upon it. h could
not help feeling that such fne singer treated viii in
justice. However, he treated much better dner they
We're Tadsed that The reputation Of Jenny iiud had no been
ogerratad To ell the truth, do not think hive ever
heard her Y pHrer and ffeshsr voice. hge ao
sonfdent Of success than she upon this night Aiier
she terminated R shout burst from the abtonsed
audience Il was quenehed BY loud hush whidb passed
rapidly through the house and which enforced ATTENTION 10
the singer When she ended the air. storm OF applausa
broke forth. Neverha more enthusiastic audience
than the Habaneos when their doubts had once been dis
PEELED Ere she sung again from the President
was borne ber inform her that SHE liberty to accept
any encore which was offered her, This the more
gular favor from the fact that had been accorded 10 no
a all haa
prohibited by the government in consequence Of t having
had TO have the theatre cleared the point III the bay
onet . put end to the repeated sHcors bestowd by the
audience tie duet in the Puritd encoYed ~ them r.
oil rs direct illusions 70 liberty In consequence
OF this permission, the Casta Diva which wa sung in
Tue second part Of the received raptufoHs encore
and never indeed had heard her sing this air oousy
was with shouts and applause that the abaneHD testified
Their appreciation and five tmeswas she summoned before
the curtain to hear their repeated plaudia.
Such Hauecess for the Caste Diva in the Hayna stamps
powerful reproof upon American appreciation Of it.
Very certainly we have had any in the United
states who eond at all sing as Jenny Lind can md does
Sine stands the shores Of he New World comptcy alone
ais interpreter and richly did she deserve the repeated &C
camaons which testified the Habanefoi admiration Of it,
As for Buke he shared the 7loous fate Of Beletd in
this first and Benedict scarcely noubed BY the
audience Neither had the Swedish melody io more sue
cess Il scarcely did so much please the audience
was sung in her own matches manne by jenny
Lind Nevertheless, the first concert settled tbs question
The Lind the greate Of living voealss Cd Monday
The second one toos place
In this concert Beletd inni tey more SUCCESSFUL and
The Habsneros, who had ther minds settled with regard to
Jenny Lind, condescendsd to judge him. The result was
favorable and he received, in the Bncaols OF Reaio sula
poppa del mic brg perfect tempest Of applaule Il was
lheored as it seemed geatyo Bsets astb nishmeni
IN Ike maRne if that be possible even more huuousy
vas Rossns Tanaptsia demanded for second time and
At the end he dismissed with shouts Of appreciation which
ummoned him the stage four or five timas As for
lenny's Qui Ia voce had heard ii betr sung by
le As she concluded shower Of bouquets e on the
tage, which literally stfewed with flowers In fact
lever gathered such large floral harvest h was col
eced after the curtain fell rst part Of The concert
However Jennys greatest triumph this evening" was in the
Perche non no del veno E1quisitely did ste sing this
ria aud ayshedon it the whole Of her superb tower and
Execution. Never had heard more ornament hehped upon
me air than that which Jenny laviihed upon s and the
applause which bun from the aadie,5 ,as of die most en-
husia'e class. 1t eneored, and she was compelled 10
ONE forward and sing it a second time.
believe should tel that the receipts at tie trt con-
ert coe upon $4,000. am as yet unavare what
hose at the second They must however, havs BEEN
cry large,