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...coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took her out to supper on their shoulders; Jenny Lind -50 brilliant, chilly young men pulled her carriage up Fifth Avenue. Now Galli-Curci, who recently made her first English appearance before the coldest, the shiniest audience in the land. They did not even wait to hear her sing but met her steamer, conducted her to London with what the British press termed...
...first honorary Philharmonic member elected since 1900, wrote: "Entertaining, as I long have, a high opinion of the contributions of this splendid organization to the cause of American musical culture, I am delighted to accept." Other honorary Philharmonic members have been: Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Vieuxtemps, Jenny Lind, Edwin Booth, Theodore Thomas. ¶ The President tentatively accepted an invitation to speak in Philadelphia on July 4. Exercises are to be conducted in Independence Square under the auspices of the American Bar Association. Accompanied by Senator Pep- per, Harold B. Beitler, Philadelphia attorney, marched to the White House to deliver...
Conservation of the helium resources of the U. S. as an American monopoly for both war and peace purposes is the object of bills to be introduced at the present session of Congress. Dr. S. C. Lind, newly appointed chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, sponsors the movement. Dr. Lind and his predecessor, Dr. Richard B. Moore, two of the country's leading authorities on rare gases and earths, speaking last week before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Washington, out lined the probable future developments of helium and the Government's program...
Lady Rose's father was successively Ambassador to Berlin and Vienna before he decided to retire to his country estates at Apthorpe. In Berlin account is made of King Frederick William IV; the Prussian royal children, with whom Lady Rose used to play; Prince Hohenlohe; Count Halzfeldt; Jenny Lind, singer; Meyerbeer, composer; Mendelssohn, famed pianist. In Vienna reference is made to the Emperor Franz Josef; the Empress Elizabeth; Prince Metternich. Journeys from Berlin to Calais, made by post, entailed crossing Belgian territory, and even here Lord and Lady Westmoreland were received with open arms by the Belgian Royal Family. Mention...
Music in the United States was advanced many years by Barnum's unique exploitation of Jenny Lind. The lovely Swedish Nightingale was the first European artist to brave "the American Jungle." Barnum said: " Her whole life was a song," and from it he made half a million...