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
_German Song_,--"My heart's on the Rhine," Herr Pischek, Speyer.
_Cavatina_,--"Bell raggio,"--(Semiramide) Mdlle. Rita Favanti, Rossini.
_Duetto_,--"Tutto di te sollecitto,"--Miss Louisa Pyne and Signor
Gardoni. (Adelia) Donizetti.
_Ballad_,--"Sweet Home,"--Miss Stabbach, Wrighton.
_Song_,--"Good bye, sweetheart,"--Mr. Sims Reeves, J. L. Hatton.
_Fantaisie_,--Violoncello--Signor Piatti, Piatti.
_Aria_,--"Ernani,"--Mrs. Wokie, Verdi.
_A Fireside Song_,--(by desire)--Miss Greenfield, Wallace.
_Solo_,--"Contra Basso," Signor Bottessini, Bottessini.
_German Song_,--(by particular desire) "The Standard Bearer," Herr
Pischek, Lindpainter.
_Scotch Song_,--"Heigho, Janet,"--Miss Dolby, Dolby.
_Song_,--(by desire) "When stars are in the quiet sky,"--Miss
Greenfield, accompanied by herself on the piano-forte.
_Finale_,--"Wedding March," Mendelssohn.
The London Morning Post says,--A large assemblage of fashionable and
distinguished personages, assembled by invitation at Stafford House, to
hear and decide upon the merits of a phenomenon, in the musical world.
Miss Elizabeth Greenfield, better known in America as the "Black Swan,"
under which sobriquet she is also about to be presented to the British
public. This lady is said to possess a voice embracing the extraordinary
compass of nearly three octaves; and her performances on this occasion
elicited the unmistakable evidence of gratification. She is, without
doubt, deficient in science and cultivation, but she displays remarkable
intelligence, and is gifted with feeling and the capacity of conveying
it to her auditors.
In the hackneyed song of "Home, sweet home," she produced, by the pathos
and expression she contrived to throw into the music, a very decided
impression; nor was she less successful in other music of a different
character.
Again, the London Observer remarks--"A concert of vocal music was given
in the past week, at Stafford House, the residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, to test and make known the powers and merits of
the American vocalist, Elizabeth Greenfield. She is now about
twenty-five years of age, and has come to England to perfect herself in
singing, in the hope of elevating the popular estimate of her
unfortunate race, by the development and display of any artistic talent
she may possess. Her _début_ was in the highest degree favourable; Her
voice was at once declared to be one of extraordinary compass. Both her
high and low notes were heard with wonder by the assembled amateurs, and
her ear was pronounced to be excellent."
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