Program: Program for "First Concert of M'lle Jenny Lind" at Tremont Temple, Boston
September 27 1850 (Date manufactured/created)
Program for Jenny Lind's first concert in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 27, 1850. The program is printed on yellow paper. It is titled, "Tremont Temple/ First Concert of M'lle [Mademoiselle] Jenny Lind/ on Friday evening, September 27th." The program follows, which in addition to selections from operas, also includes the piece that had won Barnum's musical competition, titled "Greeting to America" by author Bayard Taylor.
Jenny Lind was a Swedish opera singer who achieved high praise and acclaim for her extraordinary voice in Europe in the 1840s. Though not having heard her sing, P. T. Barnum engaged her to do a tour in America in 1850 to 1851, certain that it would be successful with advance promotion of her personal qualities. Lind was known for her generosity as she gave liberally to charities, especially institutions that benefitted women and children; she also founded a school in Stockholm. She arrived in New York City on September 11, 1850, and was greeted by a crowd of thousands, anxious to get a glimpse of the famous Miss Lind.
Her first performances were held at Castle Garden in New York; Boston was her second venue. This program lists the music to be performed, and notes those pieces in which Signor Belletti would also sing. Jules Benedict was the Conductor and accompanist on the tour, and he is noted as the composer of some of the pieces as well. The lower portion of the program includes advertising for fine art prints featuring Lind, Belletti, and Benedict, and "the only authorized copies" of the music she would sing. These could be purchased from Geo. P. Reed & Co.'s Music Store at 17 Tremont Row in Boston. Tickets for her second concert could also be purchased from Reed. The program was printed by "White and Potter's 4000 per hour Steam Printing Engine, Spring Lane, Boston."
Jenny Lind (October 6, 1820 - November 2,1887) was popularly known as The Swedish Nightingale. Though she had a disadvantaged childhood, the exceptional quality of her voice was recognized when she was young, and she received training at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She became famous in Europe, and eventually P.T. Barnum engaged her for a one-year tour. Lind was previously unknown in the U.S., but Barnum's advertising created "Lindmania," an insatiable desire for concert tickets and the innumerable consumer products that were manufactured with her name. Halfway through the tour, Lind married her replacement pianist, Otto Goldschmidt, and she broke her contract with Barnum, though the couple continued the tour on their own. The Goldschmidts had three children, and Lind became a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London. She is buried at the Great Malvern Cemetery in Malvern, Worcestershire, England.
Jenny Lind was a Swedish opera singer who achieved high praise and acclaim for her extraordinary voice in Europe in the 1840s. Though not having heard her sing, P. T. Barnum engaged her to do a tour in America in 1850 to 1851, certain that it would be successful with advance promotion of her personal qualities. Lind was known for her generosity as she gave liberally to charities, especially institutions that benefitted women and children; she also founded a school in Stockholm. She arrived in New York City on September 11, 1850, and was greeted by a crowd of thousands, anxious to get a glimpse of the famous Miss Lind.
Her first performances were held at Castle Garden in New York; Boston was her second venue. This program lists the music to be performed, and notes those pieces in which Signor Belletti would also sing. Jules Benedict was the Conductor and accompanist on the tour, and he is noted as the composer of some of the pieces as well. The lower portion of the program includes advertising for fine art prints featuring Lind, Belletti, and Benedict, and "the only authorized copies" of the music she would sing. These could be purchased from Geo. P. Reed & Co.'s Music Store at 17 Tremont Row in Boston. Tickets for her second concert could also be purchased from Reed. The program was printed by "White and Potter's 4000 per hour Steam Printing Engine, Spring Lane, Boston."
Jenny Lind (October 6, 1820 - November 2,1887) was popularly known as The Swedish Nightingale. Though she had a disadvantaged childhood, the exceptional quality of her voice was recognized when she was young, and she received training at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She became famous in Europe, and eventually P.T. Barnum engaged her for a one-year tour. Lind was previously unknown in the U.S., but Barnum's advertising created "Lindmania," an insatiable desire for concert tickets and the innumerable consumer products that were manufactured with her name. Halfway through the tour, Lind married her replacement pianist, Otto Goldschmidt, and she broke her contract with Barnum, though the couple continued the tour on their own. The Goldschmidts had three children, and Lind became a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London. She is buried at the Great Malvern Cemetery in Malvern, Worcestershire, England.
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