Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-10-21
From the Daily Of Tuesday.
MADAME BISHOPIN BURLINGTON

Our citizens remember well Madame Bish-
ops concert in Burlington SOM five years
since when she sang to a house crowded 10
its utmost at a dollar a tichet, and created n
furore among cur music lovers which lasted
for a season. Since then she has made a tri-
umphal career in Mexico, Central and South
America. the West Indies. California, Aus
tralia and England. Her temperance, last
year, in London, the scene Of her early tri-
umph., excited unusual interest, and the sur
prise and delight with which it was found
that she was a greater singer than ever found
free expression in the leading journals
of the great metropolis. We extract a few
sentences from the extended notices of the
first concert after her return to London
From the London Time, Dec. l6, 1858.
The return Of Madame Anna Bishop, after more
than ten years wanderings in search of artistic
honour and profit, has restored a genuine vocalist
to our musical circles. OF such an acquisition the
metropoli. has long stood in need; and is no lit
tie TO be able to say of her that she has rather
advanced than retrograded in her art. A mistress
Of her ait was undeniably before us last night;
and the oftener she sang, the stronger became the
conviction that true feeling and expression, which
constitute the essence of music, were there, no
less than art.
From the Morning Post, Dec. l4th, 1855.
Well, Madame Anna Bishop re-appeared last
night at Exeter Hall, and not only delighted us
by the rare excellence of her execution, but also,
we must be permitted to add. astonished us by
the display of physical powers still unfmpaired by
time.
From The London Express same date.
From a slim, girlish-looking person, looking
even younger than she really vas. she has come to
be an exceedingly fine woman, still looking re-
markedly young, with a full rounded figure, and
a face which, without exaggeration, may well be
called beautiful. She is ten times the singer she
was when we last heard her. Her voice does not
betray the slightest sign of decay 1t is a mag
nifcent organ; rich, mellow, flexible, of extensive
compass, end d~elicately in tune. She is, in short,
in the fullest possession of her powers, and in nll
prob bility will continue to be so for a long time
to come.
Madame Bishop returned to New York
last month, and gave four concerts, each of
which was a great success. She has since
sung in Montreal and Quebec, and now
stops in Burlington for a night on her return
to New York. Her name alone would fill
the Town Hall. Madame Bishops assis-
tants are fully worthy of her-and
form a remarkable attraction in them
selves. Our readers will remember the
frequent notices in the n. Y. Press and in
our own musical correspondence, of a young
Englishman who came unheralded from Leip-
sic to New York, and leaped at once to fame,
fortune, and a place in the front rank of liy-
ing pianists. Mr.. Mills is the man, and we
know of no pianist whom we would more
gladly hear. OfSignor Morino, We know
nothing but in such company he can hard
ly fail to be good. The programme is Il cap
ital one, and includes a song (to be sung by
Madame Bishop composed by our gifted
young townsman, that used to be. Mr..
Charles Jerome Hopkins. Altogether this
concert will be ranked among the great mu-
steal events in Burlington, and we shall be
heartily sorry for any lover of music who is
detained from the Town Hall tomorrow
evening.