New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-05
Jenny Lind.


by one Of the larges, audiences have evet seen
There could not have been less than 1000 or son
persons in the building TO assist the nine.y,htra
| concert Of jenny LIND In America We were no,
surprised a. the throng, for notwithstanding her card
the alarm OF her speedy departure had been gvea
and we understand that all the tickets for the even
ing were sold yesterday morning before O'Clock At
the chief Office and by spectators at an advanced
rate For this reason, and As the sureSt method Of
satisfying those thousands OF the tens Of thou.
sands who will most wish to att nd the last concert
lunder the present arrangement the tickets WILDE
sold this morning AZ auction AZ 10 o'clock IN Castle
Garden We wish to note tina, the card OF IBsxr
LIND only differs from Mr. Bamum's card and re.
marks in this particular, that she declares any state.
ment that she would sing more in the United
States to be Unauthorized AMER rest and recruited
| strength she hopes to be able To do 50.
In the selection OF music for the Concert OF last
evening. we have already stated that the exquisite
TASTE Of the orchestra apparent az least In the
Instrumental portion. Two such oyertures those
of Egm0nt and tho Midsummer NIShrs RTedm and 50
played do not often irradlaie the remembrance Of
single concert. For some reason the former, per.
hapS from a momeniary inattention our part al.
though we fancied that heard every note, seemed
unfinished But the latter was played IN manner
TO have gladdened the composers heart The Over
ture To the Midsummer Nighfs Dream is the most mag
nfcent piece Of musical coloring that we know It's
throughout too delicate and dainty To suffer the charge
Of imitation of natural effects, for indeed the effects
represented not Sensiby but sptually discerned
But 1t is suggestive to the full OF imaginative reality
No love -rapt Puck. or Cobweb Peas Blossom could
trace finer fancieS Of sound through a moonlight
Summer midnight in any Grecian grove, than fil and
glimer through the various grace of the musical
movements of this overture. Yet It Is remarkable
that unlike most other works Of the kind strung upon
some leading and pronounced melody, this overture
has no proper melody, although well defined mo.
tive meanders through the whole. 1t was received
with astonishing GOODNESS, which fact We hope, con.
soled Mr.. HOFFMAN for the indifference to his ex.
tremeyprilliaft piano performance Yet, o, Mr. Ben
edct and Mr.. DreScher and Hoffman, concerts ike
these not the proper sphere for the display of the
gymnastics of any single instrument, how sklllfnly
soever performed
JENNY LIND sang with more spirit than on Monday
evening The place and the audience are doubtless
more inspiring than any thing smaller and less airy
can be- Mozart's Non ma dir fell with the purest
roundness Of tone and hIllness OF expression from
her lips and in Al Fesh from Besircedi Tends,
the music was quite forgotten in the singing Thawas
fair. 1t was true art. Raphael painted his Madonna
from his FornarIna. The earthly mistress was trans
figured into the celestial mother. BELLErrI was adj
mirable, and volunteered with JENNY LIND to supply
the place of sALv who was so hoarse that he could
only with great inconvenience deliver the rectstVe
TO his first air.
The Concert concluded with John Anderson NY 10,
and Comm hro the Rye. They among the most
successful songs the latter the most successful song
sho bns in No NH here
emphatic dissent with the opinion of weekly reh-
gous contemporary of JENNY LIMBS balladsinging.
1t is the painful to do so rs some OF the most
udcious and apprcciatVe articles upon her perform
ance that we have seen IN the country, graced tho
columns Of the Christian Inquirer during the Autumn.
Her balladsingng is found to be trivial IN ITSELF I'M
worthy the artist and not without certain cldp.rap
n the foreign pronunciation Of English, and some
very ungracious SMILES illustrate this view. Now
the ballads she has selected are all singularly
characteristic and intrinscally beautiful no less YER
bay than unsteady. The airs, except Sweet Homs,
of which We are not sure, national melodies,
music approved by the most various and genuine
experience. The words are partly the work OF such
men as Burns and Moore, than whom song writers
no literature names better, and the verbal pathos OF
Auld Robin Gray IS responsible for as sweet and deep
an ocean as ever gave ove-fancies boundless space
TO swim Her singing Of hem is worthy the sentiment
Of the songs, even their expression less exqui-
site As dramatic songs in different ways, Aud ROBIN
Gray and Comm tire the Rye are unsurpassed. They
are no more trivial than graceful wreathed with
festa or funerea tracery and thrown of in meuyor
mournful moment by PraXitiles or Pygmalion. To
wish that she would only sing tho subllmities OF Han
del or Haydn, or Mozart, Is TO wish that only the
Olymplan love should be scupured, only the Bible
read. Her pronunciation altho not without accents
very clear and precise as is usual with the natives OF
the North of Europe in speaking English and ifit Is
sometimes and appropriately arch, ii is never conn
cal in any ludric0us sense Beside, in Scottish songs
1t has on the one hand much closer resemblance 10
the native Scotch than the English to which We are
accustomed in the songs and on the other every
word is much more ineligible than II would be from
a Scot and much more distinct than from the mas,
of singers who undertake the songs. For tho rest, II.
as the critic deprecates his doing angel could not
upon his harp sweep the significance of these songs
upward into the same winning and touching beauty
which JIMMY LIND impars 10 them, then. very clear
ly some string would have snapped upon the ansePs
harp, or some cord in his heart. And could he near
JENNY sing Them would not unprecedented angel
suspect so himself
We would ask pardon for our prolixity were our
gossip Of anything less than JENNY LIsDs singing
and were We not too willing 70 avoid the fatal an.
nouucement that the last Concert Of the present Sc
ries takes place tomorrow e7ening. JENNY LIaD
sings Non pcrefor Ob DIE w9Lks and casta Diva, be
SIDE some English ballads
JUSTICE TO THE Roman RgPUBLc.-Aiter
the Pontifcal authorities, By means Of foreign