Program: Program for Jenny Lind's First and Second Grand Concerts at Tremont Temple, Boston
September 27 1850 (Date manufactured/created)
Program for two of Jenny Lind's concerts at Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts. The program is folded such that the information about the first concert, on September 27, 1850, appears on the back, and information about the second concert appears on the front with the paper fold to the left. The pages are titled, "Tremont Temple/ First Concert of M'lle [Mademoiselle] Jenny Lind/ on Friday evening, September 27th" and "Tremont Temple/ M'lle [Mademoiselle] Jenny Lind's/ Second Grand Concert/ on Tuesday evening, October 1st." The music performed in each program was different. Notably, only at the first concert did Lind sing the piece that had won Barnum's musical competition; the piece was 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. Along the bottom on one side the program includes several lines promoting "Mr. Whipple's Dissolving Views" to be shown at the Tremont Temple. The black and white program was printed by A. Mudge, Printer, 21 School Street [Boston, Mass.]
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. Along the bottom on one side the program includes several lines promoting "Mr. Whipple's Dissolving Views" to be shown at the Tremont Temple. The black and white program was printed by A. Mudge, Printer, 21 School Street [Boston, Mass.]
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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