Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-12-01
Courtship Like Jenny Lind's

Jenny Lind being in love with her
pianist, and realizing why he hest
tated to tell her of his love for her,
was practically forced to do the court
ing.
1T was in 1867" continued the
greatest bandmaster Of his time, the
late Patrick Sarsfeld Gilmore. that
Euphrosyne Parepa, who had quite as
fine a reputation between 1850 and
1874 as any grand opera singer, and
Carl Rosa, who was regarded as one OF
the great violin players Of Europe,
made tour of the United States,
where Parepa had come two years be-
fore. / saw them in concert i'll Boston.
and 1t did not take me long to become
aware Of the fact that Parepa was cast
ing decidedly kindly glances toward
the young violinist who shared the APP
plause of the audience with her. He
was indeed, a master of the violin.
Before he went on the stage, Pare
pa, who had the blacklist. merriest
eyes l ever saw, would approach Rosa,
whose hair was fair, whose complexion
bluest l ever saw, and ask him In Ger
man how the weather affected his VIC
lin. She would do 1t charmingly, her
eyes dancing, her olive tinted cheeks
suffused with a delicate blush. Then
after Rosa had finished playing and
had sought the wings she would ap-
preach him and say fascinatingly what
IN m
little violinist, you brought the music
of the heavens out of your instru-
ment!' The boyle was then only in
his twenties, while Parepa was in the
thirties-woul blush Hike a school
girl at the compliment and look with
sly, furtive glance at Parepa while he
stammered his thanks for the compll'
ment.
when Parepa's turn came to ap
pear upon the stage she would 1asn
the merriest Of glances at the timld
violinist and say to him that she
wanted him to listen to her singing
because, if she knew that he was lis
tening. then she would be sure to sinS
her best. And again the violinist
would blush furiously and look fur
lively at the great singer. and bis
long, dropping blonde mustache would
tremble in his agitation.
CAS- soon as she had finished her sons
Parepa would seek out Rosa in the
wings and say softly. Well anu
then wait for the compliment which
she had invited. And the embarrassea
boy, blushing red, would say stammer
ingly to her: You will see how you
inspired me when l play my next Sc
lection
ooh, 1t was beautiful case OF yislplo
courtship and Parepa made love mo-
coquettishly, but charmingly. And sue
had to. The fact was that Carl hosS
was so modest and so complete dew
tee of Parepa and admirer of her a.
tistic work that he was afraid to assei.
himself as her lover. Like Jenny Lhu
with Otto Goldschmidt, she had to "
all the counting; she knew that oa''
Rosa's timidity was all that STOOD u
the way of his becoming most w
voted and impassioned lover Al ia',
she limited to him that her hand an'
heart were his for the asking, ana 'p'
next day, have been told, Carl nus
played superbly and Parepa sang o.
never before. !,
"They were married shortly altei =
New York Then they reorganized ~
Parepa.Rosa English opera compaS,
out OF which, after the death OF farv sps
in 1874, grew the Carl Rosa Ensn 81
opera company, the most suceess.s
and the longest lived of all the cop
panies organized to give opera III D''
lish." ID
Copyright 1911, by f. J. Edwards
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