Songs of Scotland

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Manager / Director:
Lafayette F. Harrison

Price: $.50

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Apr 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Mr. Kennedy recited Burns's "Tam o'Shanter."

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  David [Scottish singer] Kennedy;  Helen Kennedy [piano-soprano]
2)
"Tam o’ Shanter"
Text Author: Burns
Participants:  David [Scottish singer] Kennedy
3)
"Ye banks and braes of bonnie Doon"
aka Ye banks and braes a bonny Doon
Composer(s): Traditional
4)
"John Anderson, my Jo"
Composer(s): Kozeluch
Text Author: Burns
5)
"Of a’ the airts the winds can blaw"
aka Of a' the airts the wind can blow
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Burns
6)
"Afton water"
aka Aften water
Text Author: Burns
7)
"Man's a man for a' that, A"
Composer(s): Dempster
Text Author: Burns
8)
"Highland Mary"
aka Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Burns
9)
"Last May a braw wooer"
aka Last May a braw moor
Composer(s): Traditional
10)
"Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled"
aka Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Text Author: Burns
11)
"Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad"
aka Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad
Text Author: Burns
12)
"Green grow the rushes, O"
Composer(s): Traditional
13)
Fantasia, piano, unidentified
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Helen Kennedy [piano-soprano]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 April 1867, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 April 1867, 2.
3)
Review: New York Post, 18 April 1867.

“…Mr. Kennedy’s farewell concert at Irving Hall last evening was a most flattering success, there being hardly enough standing room for his audience.”

4)
Review: New York Herald, 18 April 1867, 6.

“Mr. D. Kennedy gave his farewell concert in this city last night, at Irving Hall, which was so crowded that many persons had to be content with standing room. The Caledonian Society was present in full tartan array, ‘wi kilt and bonnet an [?],’ and its pipers played some stirring Scotch airs between the parts. Familiar as many of Mr. Kennedy’s ballads are in the concert room, they receive new charms from the genuine spirit and feeling with which he sings them.”