Jenny Lind's American Tour, 1850 to 1852



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Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1850/08/19 Opera singer Jenny Lind, conductor Julius Benedict, baritone singer Signor Belletti and company leave Liverpool on the American paddle steamer "Atlantic".
1850/09/01 Jenny Lind's troop arrives in New York, near Canal St where a crowd of 30,000 to 40,000 waited. They are whisked away by carriage to Irvine House hotel at Broadway and Chamber St.
1850/09/01 Twenty companies of New York Fireman bearing torches escort 200 musicians to Irvine House to serenade Ms Lind in front of 20,000 spectators
1850/09/09 Genin, the hatter, purchases at auction for $225 the first ticket sold in America for Lind's tour. A total of 1,429 tickets were sold for an average price of $6.38 on the first day.
1850/09/11 P T Barnum debuts singer Jenny Lind with a selection of classical music at Castle Garden Castle Clinton National Monument, New York City
1850/09/13 Jenny Lind performs her second concert at Castle Garden.
1850/10/09 Marcus Aurelius Root, the daguerreotypist, purchases at auction the first ticket for the Lind's Chestnut Street Theater performance for $625
1850/10/10 Jenny Lind performs at the Chestnut Street Theater (at 6th St, Philadelphia, demolished) 'singularly ill constructed for the voice'
1850/10/13 Jenny Lind attends services and sings "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" from the organ loft of Gloria Dei Church Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA
1850/10/18 Jenny Lind performs in two concerts, October 18 and 19, at Musical Fund Hall, netting $19,000 Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1851/07/00 Jenny Lind sings for an audience in the Old First Church on 129 Main St, Northampton, MA (burned down 1876). First Churches of Northampton, Northampton, MA

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