Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-02
3THE MAZY RUNNING SOUL OF
MELODY.

MELODY
The Nilsson Concert at Masonic
Hail Wednesday EVeniUg.-SaIc OF
Tickets Yesterday.
Probably nothing approaching the came
character has ever created such tremendu-
GUS sensation among the denizens of
Nashville, as has the announcement that
Mile Nilsson was coming. The excl E.
ment reached its hight yesterday, at the
sale of tickets by r Dorman, at his mu-
sic emporium, on Church street. The
crowd commenced early, and during most
of the day the jam was wonderful to be-
hold-too wonderful to be properly pic
tured by lead pencil. In the rear of the
fine establishment where they were for
sale, and the diagram of seats was kept,
Mr.. Dorman has business Office, hand
somely fitted up with half glass front, and
the press was so great as to burst in the
glass framework, and almost the whole
front. Some piano boxes bad to be placed
upright along the front, to preserve the
Office from, possibly, utter demolition, and
two or three clerks were kept bnsy to their
utmost in serving tickets and seats. Many
persons IN their anxiety to get ''the best
seat, or lot of seats, actually Skinned it
up the walls Of the Office and flung their
greenbacks over by handfulls, with earnest
plea for seats--four. dollar seats-the best
seats-the highest price sests-ten dollar
seats if they had them-seats, seats, seats,
tickets, tickets, tickets, and darn the ex-
penses. Premiums of ten, fifteen and
twenty dollars we're freely offered, bat of
course were not accepted. The entire
number of 81 90 seats were sold, except
about forty, and many of the So 90 seats.
The sales amounted to about Sl.700 at the
regular rates, although If premiums which
were offered had been accepted, no telling
how high the gross receipts would have
went. Many seem TO be under the i'm
preston that Mile. Nilsson will remain
two nights; this is delusion, however,
as it is positive that she will remain but
one night. All who would, therefore, hear
the Swedish Nightingale, should purchase
their tickets to-day.
Asan indication of what nay be exp ctsd
Wednesday evening, We copy from the
Charleston Neacs of April "a, an account
Of Mile. Missions concert in that city, as
follows:
Nile. Nilsson has a stately presence,
and manner which is indiscribably fasci-
mating. The luminous dawn gray eyes,
the fair bright face, the wealth of golden
hair, the coy poise of the head, the won
drous mobility of feature, the winning
smile and queenly bearing, make up as
charming a picture as arti-t ever drew,
and establish her at once in the good
graces of her public. Ia this lies
one secret of Mile. Missions success. Half
her audience are in love with her before
a note is sung. But her voice needs no
apology, and compels the applause of the
most hypocritical amateur. 1t is Of large
compass and sufficient power, rich in tone,
and wonderfully soft and clear in the low
breathing notes, which, even now, linger
in the ear of those who heard them on |
last Saturday night.
Nile. Nilssons voice is highly cultivat- |
ed, and enables Der 10 produce those Won |
derful effects Of light and shade, The |
dainty Torture and massive defamation,
which give 10 her singing, even in the |
concert room, so much dramatic force. |
There are, doubtless, singers who have as |
pure voice, or as much artistic skill, or |
Is much personal grace, or as much fer |
vor Of expression; but we do not believe |
that there is any other singer on the ope-
ratio stage, here or in Europe, who COM !
bipes all those rare qualities in the exalted |
dcgIee in which they are possessed by
Nilsson. No wonder, then, that Paris srd |
London placed the fairhaired Swede on |
the pedestal with Patti, and that we ''out-
side barbsriens" are ready to fall down |
and worship at the shrine Of musical di- |
vinity.
The three songs allotted in the |
programme to Mile. Nilsson were all |
encored, and, had they had the con-
science, the audience would have en- |
eored them again and again, The we'll |
known Una V0ce was splendidly sung.
This caVatina has been sung many time; |
but Mile. Nilsson gives to it meaning and |
q poetic grace which it never had before. ]
The encore song-a bright ballad-was |
almost plaintive in spite of its lifting |
melody. The cavatina from the ITGDiGtG |
an f0rse e tuiO was well chosen for ii en-
abled Nile. Nilsson to display, in happy |
contrast, the compass and power Of her |
voice, as well as her SURPRISING h1ency /
and precision of vocalizstion.
As an encore, Mile. Nilsson sang Home,
Sweet Home" This was a little gem. We |
NAV remark en- PEASANT, that Mile. Nilsson
has very slight accent, and speaks SO dis
tinctly that every word Of her English
songs is easily understood. 1t was with
ballads ike "Home, Sweet Home, and
the ''Old Folks at Home" that La DtUd
took the Western States by storm. The
scene from Lucia with flute obligato by
NJ. Vieuxtemps) WIS, in its dramatic in
tensity and truth of expression, the es-
thetic event of the evening. 1t was, as
usual, encored, and Mile. Nilsson gave in
its place, lively aria, which made the
audience plead for more. Mile. Nilsson
bowed her thanks aud shook her head
instead of three pieces she had already
sung six.
We confess that We cannot justify the
practice of demanding repetition Of
songs with which an audience may be es-
pecialIy pleased. But, in this Instance
there are extenuatiDg circumstances.
Mile. Nilsson is a new revelation IN
and the public are tempted to
presume upon her evident good nature
aud kindly feeling. Who can blame them?
Showers of choice boquets were bestowed
upon Mile. Nilsson during the evening,
and if the fair lady is only one-half as well
pleased with Charleston as Charleston is
with her, we shall have an opportunity of
hearing her again before she returns to
that Sweet Home, whose praise she sings
so tenderly.
COTrDN NTOVrmENy.ES