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Show KILSSOX AT NASHVILLE. The "Queen of Song," as the papers sty!ed Nilsson, has honored Nashville with a concert. "For weeks the STash-villeians STash-villeians have looked forward to this great event, and now it is over," writes a correspondent of the Milwaukee Aews, "and it may be years before they will ever see the like again, unless the ' Queen' can see $2,000 in the visit. I love music, and wanted to hear her; but this concert was to be a Tennessee 'ovation,' and people were expected to come far and wide to do honor to the 'Queen;' and these people were so demonstrative, that under the influence of her dulcet notes, there is no knowing what they might do. " I attended, and was jammed into a large hall, with stub of a ticket in my hand calling for a reserved seat, which I never reached, but secured some one else's, and then tried to comprehend the audience assembled. The Union says the avdienee was a bouquet of loveliness culled from the middle counties of Tennessee. So it was. One bouquet right in front of me must have been six feet high. I had only one glimpse of Nils?on during the entire en-tire evening the bouquet obstructed the view somewhat. Thj concert was a great success and every one of the performers was eneo.ed two and three times. Once the 'Queen,' after singing sing-ing everything on the programme and a half dozen ballads thrown in, came out and shook her head in a negative manner. But Middle Tennessee was relentless, they yelled like a set of Comanche . Indians, and, as this was an ovation, the 'Queen' came out once moio and guvo 'Home, Sweet Home, inaheavonly manner. But tho effect was lost, for it touched one poor fellow's fel-low's heart so much that he lost his balance sitting on the rail of a bench, and fell sprawling to tho floor with a uoiso that was astonishing. After the concert a fine baud serenaded the 'Queen' who was a guest of Maxwell. I fell asleep while the band was playing play-ing 'Put mo iu my Littlo Bed.' " |
