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1. Download and play a recording of "Jenny Lind", a polka from the Library of Congress' California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection; performed by John Selleck (violin) on October 2, in Camino, California. The Sliabh Notes play a few Irish polkas This page was last edited on 2.

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2. One of the most celebrated opera performers of the nineteenth century, Swedish-born Jenny Lind (–) dazzled European and American audiences with her radiant soprano voice and with an image that emphasized wholesomeness and purity.

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3. Even the Editors, usually sedate and sober-minded, appear to have temporarily suffered from "Jenny Lind mania". "Jenny Lind", declares an important weekly, "is the most popular woman in the world; at the present moment, perhaps the most popular that ever was in it." The same paper speaks of the Nightingale's warblings as notes "which she spins.

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4. Jan 20,  · Jenny Lind was a European opera star who came to America in for a tour promoted by the great showman Phineas T. Barnum. When her ship arrived in New York Harbor, the city went crazy. A massive crowd of more than 30, New Yorkers greeted her. And what makes that especially astounding is that no one in America had ever heard her voice.

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5. Mar 28,  · Jenny Lind in , a year before her tour of Mammoth Cave. “Lind Mania” was the term the American press used to describe the immense popularity of Jenny Lind as she traveled through the country on a tour that included Kentucky’s cave region.

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6. Lind mania The first fandom on American ground. Still completely unknown in the United States in , Jenny Lind was already one of the most famous women in America by September She owed this only to her voice and the marketing and sales genius P. T. Barnum.

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7. He heavily promoted her appearances in newspapers, and the country was atwitter in Lind mania. The 93 concerts made $,, about $22 million in dollars. Lind gave most of her share to charity.

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8. Oct 30,  · Jenny Lind was a superstar in the United States even before her arrival, and she was welcomed with great crowds and ceremonies. A week after her entry to the country, the Weekly Herald committed almost a full page to her arrival in New York, reporting on all that had happened during her first six first days in the country. Tickets to her first concert, to be given at Castle Garden during the.

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9. The Jenny Lind mania: a comic song. [W H C West] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Find items in libraries near you.

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