[4] Linden made her professional debut on 7 September 1877 in Reading, Pennsylvania, as part of a benefit concert for John D. Mishler, manager of the Swedish Lady Vocal Quartet.

Mishler then hired them to join the Swedish Lady Quartet on a five-week tour of central and western Pennsylvania and upstate New York.

The two were married in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 18 upon hearing that Linden's father had tracked them down and intended to bring her back home.

Bent created the ensemble with soprano Juliet Fenderson to provide work while he was on sabbatical from the Gilmore Band during its European tour.

In addition to their respective solos, the company's programs featured saxophone and cornet duets by Linden and Bent, which received praise from reviewers and audiences alike.

In January 1879, Linden was engaged to play a series of concerts at the Bellevue House, one of four hilltop resorts that overlooked Cincinnati from a high bluff above.

Linden finished the month of February in Cincinnati at the Atlantic Garden, performing a series of "Grand Concerts" with Andy Brand's Full Orchestra.

[8] Throughout the summer of 1879, Linden appeared as soloist with Arthur Bent's Marine Band aboard the steamer Plymouth Rock during its daily excursion cruises to Rockaway Beach, located on the South Shore of Long Island (present-day Queens, New York).

Michael B. Leavitt (1843–1935), an American theater entrepreneur, manager, and producer, named the company after a European tent show called Rentz's Circus.

In the early 1870s, "Leavitt conceived the idea of merging the lady minstrel show, vaudeville, and musicalized travesty into one production which he called burlesque.

An engagement in Ithaca, New York, by Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels deteriorated into a full-blown riot after Cornell students disrupted the show because they became bored with its tameness.

"[13] Leavitt's new Gigantic Vaudeville and Specialty Company featured a diverse combination of variety acts—such as gymnasts, acrobats, rope skippers, comedians, operatic singers, sketch actors, and musicians—"strung together to produce a compete bill of entertainment".

She wears a fashionable corseted dress with a bustle and long train, a cameo necklace, and a ribbon in her elaborately coiffed hair.

The image of refinement projected visually by Linden's poster corresponds to the sophistication that her musical performances would provide to the company's bill in balancing the more entertainment-oriented acts.

The acrobatic Garretta family typically received the greatest attention, but Linden earned numerous positive, albeit brief, mentions in the troupe's reviews.

During the season's opening week in Brooklyn, "Miss Louise Linden, the only lady saxophone artiste in the world, astonished and delighted her audience by the unexpected excellence of her playing.

On 8–9 February 1896, she was a featured soloist with Innes' Band at the Montauk Theater in Brooklyn, receiving encores for her performance of Paganini's Air Varie.

[24] That November, Linden Bent returned to vaudeville, appearing for a week on the bill at Proctor's Pleasure Palace in New York City.

[31]) On 13 January 1878, Linden performed "Variations di Concert" by Paganini at the Grand Opera House in New York City.

[33]) Whether this composition was an arrangement of a piece by Paganini, or a set of variations on one of his musical themes, it likely showcased Linden's technical virtuosity on the saxophone.

Her powers of execution are marvellous and she can play a long and difficult passage, that ordinarily requires from two to three inspirations, without removing the instrument from her lips or taking breath.

Its tones are a mixture of clarionette, saxhorn and bassoon, susceptible of great modulations and flexibility of sound, and resembling somewhat the human voice.

[39] Linden's 1881 performance of The Carnival of Venice at the Summer-Garden Concerts at the Academy of Music in Baltimore, createdmuch interest by her superior execution on the instrument.

"[40]A reviewer from the Rochester, New York, Union & Advertiser pronounced astonishment that a woman could display such capability on a wind instrument:By far the most remarkable performance of the evening, however, was Miss Louise Linden's playing upon the saxophone.