The Black Swan at Home and Abroad: or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American VocalistAnonymous
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The Black Swan at Home and Abroad: or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American Vocalist
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Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor, approximately 1819-1876
At the presentation of the Inkstand, by the ladies of Surrey Chapel to
Mrs. Stowe, Miss Greenfield was present and sang some songs. At the
Stafford House Mrs. Stowe showed to her grace a note which Miss
Greenfield had sent for her to correct. The Duchess said, "O, give it
me! it is a great deal better as it is. I like it just as she wrote it."
Mrs. Stowe thinks people always like simplicity and truth better than
finish.
Tuesday, May 31, 1853.
Miss Greenfield's first public morning concert took place at the Queen's
Concert Rooms, Hanover Square. She came out under the immediate
patronage of her grace the Duchess of Sutherland, her grace the Duchess
of Norfolk, and the Earl and Countess of Shaftsbury. It commenced at
three o'clock and terminated at five. Mrs. Stowe says, Miss Greenfield
did very well, and was heard with indulgence, though surrounded with
artists who had enjoyed what she had not--a life's training. I could not
but think, remarks Mrs. Stowe, what a loss to art is the enslaving of a
race which might produce so much musical talent. Had Miss Greenfield had
culture equal to her voice and ear, _no_ singer of any country could
have surpassed her. There could be even associations of poetry thrown
around the dusky hue of her brow were it associated with the triumphs of
art.
The following is the bill of her second grand concert at the Queen's
Concert Rooms, Hanover Square. She was assisted by the following eminent
artists.
PROGRAMME.--PART FIRST.
_Overture in C Minor_,--"Peace and War," Duggan.
_Duetto_,--"Dunque io son,"--(Barbiere) M'lle. Rita Favanti and Mr.
Charles Cotton, Rosini.
_Song_,--"I arise from dreams of thee,"--Miss Ursula Barclay, Alfred
Mellon.
_Cavatina_,--"Adelaide"--Signor Gardoni, Beethoven. "The Cradle
Song,"--Miss Greenfield, Wallace.
_Grand Fantasia_,--Piano Forte--Miss Rosina Bentley, (pupil of Miss
Kate Loder) (Prophiete) Lutz.
_Aria_,--"Sorgete,"--Mr. Cotton (Maometto) Rosini.
_Cavatina_,--(by desire) "Non Piu mesta"--Mdlle. Rita Favanti
(Cenerentola) Rosini.
_Song_,--"The Slave's Dream," Herr Brandt, Hatton.
_Song_,--"When the thorn is white with blossom" Mrs. Wokie, (late Miss
Fanny Russell, pupil of Mr. Henry Philips,) Weber.
_Variations, Violin_,--"Hilli Milli Puniah," and East Indian air, M.
de Valadares, Valadares.
_Song_,--"The Vision of the Negro Slave," Miss Greenfield.
_Aria_,--"Di pescatore ignobile,"--Mr. Sims Reeves, Donizetti.
_Grand Concertante Duette_,--Violoncello and Contra Basso, Signori
Piatti, and Bottesini, (I Puritani,) Bellini.
_Air_,--"Diamans de le Couronne,"--Miss Louisa Pyne, Auber.
_Solo Tenor Sax Tuba_,--Mr. Henry Distin, Distin.
_Scena_,--"Joan of Arc in Prison," Miss Dolby, Lindsay Sloper.
_Overture_,--"Fra Diavolo," Auber.
PART SECOND.
_Grand Duett for Two Piano-fortes_,--Mrs. Henry Thompson, (late Miss
Kate Loder) and her pupil Miss Rosina Bentley, (Huguenots,) Osborne.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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