Menands PDF Download

Author: H. P. Phelps
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332084067
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Excerpt from Menands: The Garden Suburb of Albany and Troy The concert-room was crowded, for the gifted prima-donna was in the full tide of her great popularity. No matter who it was: it might have been Titiens, with a method as grand as the ocean of which she sang; or it might have been Jenny Lind, with a voice more like that of the Seraphim who stand before the Throne than anything we shall hear again on earth; it might have been Parepa, combining in her superb vocalism the excellencies for which all other singers have been praised; it might have been Patti, the perfection and the despair of operatic artists; or it might have been Nilsson, or Nevada, or our own Albani. You were there and you remember when she sang that grand aria from "Norma," how we shouted and waved our handkerchiefs; and when she gave the Jewel Song from "Faust," how we went wild with delight, and showered upon her bouquets and adulation. And you remember, too, when at last, in response to a thundering encore, she came to the footlights, and once more lifting up her wonderful voice, discarding entirely the language and methods of grand opera, and of foreign music, she sang: "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." There was no shouting then. The moment of tumult had gone by. The homage which expressed itself in noise had ceased. Even the flowers we laid at her feet could not say all we felt, and then and there, amid silence broken only by the old familiar strain, we rendered, one and all, the tribute of our tears. The triumph was complete; but it was not her's alone. The years go by; her name may have passed from memory, and we may question which of the great artists it was that so moved us, but "Though we may forget the singer, We do not forget the song." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.