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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] in America at Niblo’s “Opera-House” It would be difficult to attempt a description of the condition of musical affairs in America at that period, which would be intelligible to one who knows only the standard of the present. Very few celebrated virtuosi, either singers or instrumentalists, had yet visited the “States.” Even the opera was almost a novelty, although at this very period, Madame Laborde, with a meager troupe, was performing in New York. Jenny Lind, who occasioned the earliest general furore in regard to music, did not arrive until nearly three years later. There was not even a decent opera-house in America. Dingy theaters and barren public halls were the sole provision made for accommodating public gatherings. The condition of orchestral music was even still lower than vocal. Twenty-three years earlier, when that greatest of all music teachers, Manual Garcia, with his young daughter, afterward Malibran, the greatest of […]
2023-09-11 09:00:03
On this day in 1850 Swedish soprano Jenny Lind made her American debut at the Castle Garden Theatre in New York City.
2022-06-14 09:18:59
Young Artists performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Opera Holland Park
[…] review Real music-making of the highest standards: the Swiss youth orchestra "il mosaico" is caught on tour in Italy by composer Edward Lambert - concert review Premiered in Norwich in 1936, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival give a celebratory performance of Vaughan Williams' Five Tudor Portraits - concert review A forgotten voice from an earlier era: Mr Onion's Serenade - Mandolin Music of the Edwardian Era - record review What a lovely night: an evening inspired by Jenny Lind's charity concerts in Norwich - concert review Home
2022-06-13 10:28:02
On a highly concentrated scale: Verdi's Macbeth at The Grange Festival
[…] review Real music-making of the highest standards: the Swiss youth orchestra "il mosaico" is caught on tour in Italy by composer Edward Lambert - concert review Premiered in Norwich in 1936, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival give a celebratory performance of Vaughan Williams' Five Tudor Portraits - concert review A forgotten voice from an earlier era: Mr Onion's Serenade - Mandolin Music of the Edwardian Era - record review What a lovely night: an evening inspired by Jenny Lind's charity concerts in Norwich - concert review Enjoyment and discovery: Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players in Bach's Ascension Oratorio at Wigmore Hall - concert review Home
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