The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-12

flowers and foliage. Here sat the
tailor. n small parsonage with his legs
crossed and making an earnest effort
to look AS though he were not the most
important person in the house,
The historian of this memorable oc-
casion was the late Augustc Waldauer,
who died not long ago IN 81. Louis,
which for many years had been his
home Mr. WaIdaucr, who was solo
yiolinist for the Lind company, was
fond of telling the story.
1t was curious sight, The ladies or
the company were dumfounded at be
ing expected to sing in porkhouse,
and could scarcely believe their eyes
when their carriages were driven up TO
the entrance and they were forced 10
alight in the porkhouse yard and to
enter door which the Cincinnatlans
had forgotten TO scrub. They contem-
plated with amaZement the dressing
room. on two sides n black, grimy wall,
the other being Of unpainted plno
boards They walked about horrifed
at the odors, holding their handker-
chiefs TO their faces and laughing in
spite OF themselves at the idea of sing
ing in a porkhouse. Some of them
wished to terminate the engagement
then and there and leave the town by
| the next boat The gentlemen of the
party strongly favored the suggestion,
! for no more than the ladies did they
relish the idea of concert in such sur
/ rouudings
Lind's Wonderful Cadenza.
But Jenny Lind said no. "We have
promised to give concert and we shall
! do ii. even ii the place does smell bad
W. SO the gentlemen lighted their
cigars in their dressing-room to help
them to endure the odors, and the la
dies poured more perfume on their
handkcrchiefs and suppressed as well
as they could their looks of disgust at
| the smell, and their smiles Of merrlment
at the little tailor in his embowered
chair Just in front of the stage. with
its borrowed carpet, and the concert
was given.
1t was closed with solo from the
| cantatrice. who rendered ooh, Grola
Che 81 Senti,' from Lucia dI Lammcr
moor, in inimitablc style, though evil
IDENTIFY coDyulsed with merriment ut
her unique surroundings, and Just be-
fore the conclusion Of the ARA, as
THOUGH In mere playfulness. she burst
into one of those cadenZas as spontane-
Gus as the trilllng of n lark, and yet the
most wonderful evidences of her taste
and skill in execution The little party
of musicians in the porkhouse green
room was electrified as the Swedish
songstrcss gave out . ripping melody,
varied with embellishments, and dis
playing TO the utmost the powers, fcx-
| lDlllly ana cOUpuSS OF ncT WOnucIIuI
voice. Mr.. Waldauer hastily caught up
n sheet of note paper from his portfolio
and, finding u blank page, noted down
the concluding cadenza. On returning
TO the hotel he comphmented the prima
donna on her performance, and showed
her his notation Of the cadenZa, with
request that she verify its accuracy
So far MS she could remember, 1T was
correct and It's highest notes are sec
ond only to those sung by AguJari,
Voice Compass Of Great Singers
Among the cantatrices who held the
boards in the seventeenth and eight
ccnth centuries there were many little
inferior either to AGujari or Lind il
range of voice, power of execution OF
dclicacy Of expression, Anastasia Rob
, | ins0n, CuzZoni, Bordoni, Gabrielle. Ma
,, ra, Ellington, Catalan, Pasta and scv
cral others were by many of their tim,
reckoned the equals of La Agujari, bu
.. the records so far as made do not beal
; out the popular belief ln the compass:
, ! Of their voices.
: The sopranos OF our own day, too
can bear favorable comparison with any
of those mentioned, save the first two
The voice of Melba easily reaches E.
n on the third line above the stave; tina
] of Nordica attains Csharp, Calvc sing
D B-nat, Gadski sings to d, Eames an,
: Sembrich each easily attain Il above
4 only two notes below the highest not,
r of Lind and four below that OF AGuiari
b Emma Abbott, when ut her best, SAM
h 10 u Eaw exceeds even this whiIa Pat