Memoranda of the Life of Jenny Lind
Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 302
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Published: 1851
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 268
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Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781230317755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... should, properly, have been no class in New York--at least none that could afford the price of attendance--that was not proportionately represented at that Concert. The songstress, herself, as is easy to see, prefers to be the 'People's choice, ' and would rather sing to the Fifty Thousand than to the Five Hundred--but she touches a chord that should vibrate far deeper than the distinctions of society, and I hope yet to see her as much 'the fashion T as 'the popular rage' in our republican metropolis. "Jenny's first coming upon the stage at the Concert has been described by every critic. Several of them have pronounced it done rather awkwardly. It seemed to me, however, that the language of curtsies was never before so varied--never before so eloquently effective. She expressed more than the three degrees of humility--profound, profounder, profoundest--more than the three degrees of simplicity--simple, simpler, simplest. In the impression she produced, there was conviction of the superlative of both, and something to spare. Who, of the spectators that remembered Steffanoni's superb indifference to the public--(expressed by curtsies just as low when making her first appearance to sing the very solo that Jenny was about to sing)--did not recognize, at Castle Garden, that night, the eloquent inspiration there might be, if not the excessive art, in a curtsy on the stage? I may as well record, for the satisfaction of the great Good-as-you--(the ' Casta Diva' of our country)--that Jenny's reverence to this our divinity, the other night, was not practised before kings and Courts. I was particularly struck, in Germany, with the reluctant civility expressed by her curtsies to the box of the Sovereign Grand Duke, and to the audience of nobles and...
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Published: 2022-10-27
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780795027987
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Published: 2015-02-18
Total Pages: 242
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Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781293232965
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Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-23
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780484495837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Biographical Memoranda of Jenny Lind It was she again - our poor, plain, neglected little girl of former days - who now came back in triumph to her fatherland. But no more poor, no more plain, no more neglected. She had become rich; she had in her slender person the power to charm and inspire multi tudes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ernest Albert Spångberg
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 84
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