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\u2018Howls of laughter drowned Mme Jenkins\u2019s celestial efforts. Where stifled chuckles and occasional outbursts had once sufficed at the Ritz, unabashed roars were the order of the evening at Carnegie.\u2019 This was Newsweek<\/i>\u2019s review, from 6 November 1944, of the concert performance by soprano<\/a><\/strong> Florence Foster Jenkins, at New York’s Carnegie Hall two weeks previously, on 25 October 1944. <\/p> Harsh stuff indeed – but was it warranted? Just who was Florence Foster Jenkins, and how had she come to this point – making her Carnegie Hall debut in her mid Seventies (and selling out the venue), while also drawing withering criticism like the above?<\/p> Florence Foster Jenkins’s story is as fascinating as it is tragic. Read on… <\/p>