Word: lind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaithersburg, Md., Shady Grove Music Fair: Mary Healy asking Peter Lind Hayes Who Was That Lady I Saw You With...
...Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale, by Gladys Denny Schultz. Though the author oversentimentalizes her heroine and all but drowns her out with petty detail, this account of the cold, superbly gifted soprano who became P. T. Barnum's greatest exhibit is absorbing for its large store of remarkable anecdotes...
...Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, by Gladys Denny Schultz. Though the author oversentimentalizes her heroine and all but drowns her out with petty detail, this account of the cold, superbly gifted soprano who became P. T. Barnum's greatest exhibit is absorbing for its large store of remarkable anecdotes...
...When he begged her to marry him, she silently handed him a mirror. That night, he wrote The Ugly Duckling. (Author Schultz offers a modified version of this famous anecdote: she claims that Jenny really meant to impugn her own appearance, arguing that it is beyond belief that Jenny Lind could be that cruel...
...Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died...