Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-23
written expressly for the Dayton EmPirel
. SUMNER IN EUROPE 4.
NO. XIV nv
JENNY LISD-rHE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
eARpENs.

to hear Madame Lind GoIdschmidt sing. The
Advertisement said the concert would begin at
two O'Clock A. M, but l had nov been in
London long enough TO understand that here,
the original divisions Of time mentioned in
the first chapter Of Genesis, are still recog
nized, and that il is "morning" until dark,
and "evening' until dawn. 1t was Madame
Louise Michals concert aud "Jenny' las all
Americans seem to think they have q right to
call hsr) merely lent her services TO her friend.
She has never yet found the people of Lon
don Indifferent or uuappreciative, and even
nov there are no empty seats in the house
when il is known that she is to sing. | did
not hear her when she was in America, and
therefore cannot compare her with her former
self. She is quite thin and does not seem to
be in good health, but her voice is still won
derful, Perhaps it is not quite SO sweet
smooth and flexible as it has been, but there
never cam from the lungs of any other NOR.
tel, such a volume of sound as she can still
send forth. She sang three or four songs,
and all Of them but one, we're those Swedish
airs, for which she has always shown an ex-
eusable partially, but which, even when rem
dered by her, come far short of my ideas OF
good music. l gave her an abundance of
calm admiration, but only in one burst did she
make me feel the true eloquence of music
She wore an elegant, high-necked, blush,
MORE antique dress, and her department was
perfection. Selfpossessed and quiet, she
manifested neither boldness nor trepidation.
She seemed TO fully understand what our ex-
peotations were, and with quiet confidence she
proceeded TO meet them, The lady impressed
me quite as favorably as the singer.
Tho other singers were Madame Michal,
Mademoiselles Trebelli, Yolpini, and Artot,
and Bettini and Santley. Otto Goldschmidt
and Charles Halle alternated at the pianos,
and ayoung Jew named Amer, not apparently
over nineteen years of age, drew from a violin
It's sweetest notes. If his maturity fulflls the
promise of his youth, he will be the peer of
Ole Bull or Pagsnini.
But the most thoroughly enjoyable parts of
the entertainment TO me were the two songs
Of Mdlle. Artot-aG dolce cdRto, by y. Rode,
and Qudnd tn chdRtes, a French serenade by
Gounod. The latter is as exquisite a piece of
simple melody, as ever fell on mortal eRrs.-
In the closing strains of the last verse, whom
my enjoyment was at its climax, | was star
tied by a long drawn NATURALIZATION
everybody, and | found that in this way, the
audience gave vent to the sam feelings of
admiration and delight which were overpow-
ering me. l noticed the same token OF appre-
citation and pleasure afterwards at the opera,
and it struck me as quite an improvement on
the noisy demonstration with hands and feet,
with which we Americans are wont to express
our approval. Artot is q young French girl,
not at all pretty, and has a voice which is re-
markable, not for its extensive range, but for
its depth, truthfnlness and expression.
We went one night to Her Majesty's Thea
tire in the Haymarket TO hear the opera. of
OberoR. We were there by eight O'Clock, but
the house was already so full, that we could
obtain only standing room in the two-shilling
gallery. We we're disposed to grumble, to be
Disguised and to 60 home, until the music
began, but then we had nothing more to say.
The discomforts OF our position we're all for
gotten. We were absorbed, entranced. We
never knew what music was before. Sims
Reeves, an Englishman, was the leading tenor,
and a splendid one he is-better than Brig
noli--and Albony, Titiens, Trebelli and Fricci,
s Ha.L =. ! ~ ~ das;.a ~ ,Sa ,en'
nothing lor US 70 aeslre IN the soprano, con-
ualo anu 1''o; nuns wnose o'eneS.tA, whlch
Is compose O ninety perIorm9Fs' mere was
not one VINO was not mas.eI OF the instrument
ne piayed, ana amoug all .ne ch1rus singers,
OF whom tnere must nays peeh hundred ana
twenty nVe, my ear ooulo not Gslset single
iaise voice Inc opera Is meDers compost,
toni ana Is tne Peerlect'on OF tne sweet ana
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