October 6 - Jenny Lind (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 6th are here: Karol Szymanowski; Jenny Lind (2019) and Paul Badura-Skoda; Oscar Sonneck (2020)

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Jenny Lind "The Swedish Nightingale" (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887) was a Swedish singer who became so famous that her name is still a synonymous with "opera singer". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Missed Opportunities

On Lind's American tour she gave 93 large-scale concerts and earned more than $350,000 (equivalent to $10,887,800 in 2020). -- adapted from Wikipedia

Jenny Lind, the singing Swede,

Caused a great to do, indeed.

Her concert tour of the nation

Was a cultural sensation.

She earn, for this, enormous fees,

And would have earned much more than these,

But no one bought her tour tees,

Or purchased souvenir EPs.

 

 

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