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

was bravura, her expressions far eX-
celled any singer of her time and III
execution she was so remarkable that
the common people of the day could
find an explanation only in miracle.
Thus in Italy it was an ordinary saying
that the saints had endowed her with
miraculous gifts because of her piety,
for she had been brought up in a con
vent and received her musical training
from priest
Voice of Phenomenal Compass.
The notes she sang for Mozart consti-
tute a mere exercise. They have no
value aside from the fact that they dis
play the extraordinary compass of her
voice. which covered three octaves, the
different registers being so united that
she passed from one to another with
most remarkable facility. the 6exlbility
of her vocal organs and their astonish
ing compass deservedly placing her at
the head of all the long list of gifted
| sopranos.
Jenny Lind's Highest Note.
| It is in accordance with the poetry
! of life that the soprano who. accord
! ing 10 record, stands next TO Aguiari
! should be woman Of the same purity
of character and reputation, the noted
Jenny Lind, later Nine. Goldschmidt.
Stories innumerable are told of the
pathos with which she sang the com
mon ballads of her own and other lam
guages, of audiences moved 10 tears by
her rendition of nursery songs, and per
haps, after all, the power to move the
feelings of an audience is the highest
test of a singer 8 genius.
But aside from expression, the fair
Swede had marvellous voice, capable
of executing passages which apparently
set at defiance the powers of the voca
organ. In fexibility and compass, she
was inferior only TO the Italian, but il
seems strange that although Jenny
Lind appeared in concert and opera
in nearly every court in Europe, the
highest notes, so far as recorded, should
have been sung in porkhouse in Gin
cinnati.
1t was during her American visit
begun under the management of Bar
mum, from whom she parted after Civ
ing ninety three concerts. The tour wa
continued at her own risk; she CAV
forty concerts after the dissolution o
the partnership, and one Of these, ut tb
solicitation Of the people of Cincinnati
was given during the Western tour o
1851-52.
Concert in Penthouse.
; Although anxious for the honor of eu
tertaining so famous a singer, the pee
pie of Cincinnati had no hall snited I
, the purpose of Il concert; the churche
were all too small to accommodate a
, audience sufficient to pay the expens
of so rare an entertainment and afte
the invitation had been extended an
the financial guarantee given, the que:
tion Of an audience room became a yer
, serious proposition.
, Fortunately, the burghers of Cincir
: : natl were not TO be daunted by the lac
OF hall or church, At that time Cir
l cinnati was the Western center of tn
3 pork packing industry and on the rive
s front there were enormous packing
: houses. One of these was hastily clcare
, by its public minded proprietor, VIII
i. rendered it for the occasion. a space IL
L dressing rooms was fenced off at or
J. end with uupainted boards. stage WI
n improvised and MT the last moment,
d an ufterthought, was covered with
+ carpet, loaned by an art lover from M
parlor floor.
v An Embowered Tailor.
Z The seats were disposed OF at nuctic
C and the first was purchased by Il loc
n tailor, In order to do honor TO him wi
p was willing TO pay most for the priv
= lege Of hearing Lind, an arch compose
of two hickory poles was erected ov
y this first chair and decorated wit
e | branches OF trees lntersneraad wit