one day a maid of a famous dancer was passing by open an window in Sweden. she heard the lovely sound of a young girl singing a song for her cat. she went home to tell the woman whom she worked that she had never before heard such beautiful singing. a few days later. the dancer went to see the child and the little girl sang for her.
soon the young girl. whose name was Jenny Lind went to the Royal theater of Stockholm for an audition. when the director of the theater found out how old she Jenny sang tears came to the eyes of the man. here was human being who sang as sweetly as a bird.
the master of the theater paid for music lessons for Jenny and by the time she was twenty years old she was famous in Sweden . Later after she had studied in Paris she toured Europe as a singer . Everyone who heard her was charmed. she was called the "Swedish" Nightingale . In 1850 she went to the United States. Everywhere she was loved . Much of the money she earned was used young people obtain training in music.