Mason and Thomas Chamber Music Soiree: 3rd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway's Rooms

Price: $1.50

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 August 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Musical Gazette, February 1867, 5.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 March 1867.

“The third soirée of Chamber Music will occur March 21, at Steinway’s, when Beethoven, Mozart, and Schumann will be represented by a quartet, a quintet, and a Sonata (for piano and violin, A minor, op. 106.) ‘Fit audience but few’ attend these concerts; so much the more reason, therefore, to praise them. Their executants are the well-read and able musicans William Mason, the pianist; Mosenthal, the violoncellist; and Thomas, Bergner, and Matzka, the violinists. We have no quintet like them—their instrumental autograph is con amore; nothing they over do ill-done. For many classic novelties we owe them thanks.” Goes on to review previous concert.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 March 1867.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 March 1867, 4.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 March 1867.

Includes program.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 22 March 1867.

“The third soiree of chamber music was given last night in Steinway’s small hall. The place was comfortably filled with a select audience, which, by its discriminate applause, seemed highly to appreciate the beauties of the selections performed. The night was not one to tempt the dilletanti to leave their cosey firesides to attend the concert, but those who did so and braved the slush and mud of the streets were amply recompensed by the manner in which the entertainment was conducted. The programme comprised Mozart’s quintet in C minor; Schuman’s [sic] sonata, for piano and violin, A minor, op. 105, and Beethoven’s Quartet, D, op. 18, No. 3.”

7)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 March 1867, 2.

“At a recent soirée of Messrs. Mason and Thomas in Steinway’s rooms, Mozart’s String Quintet in C minor, and Beethoven’s similar work in D, op. 18, were discussed with excellent appreciation and executive agreement. For the next and last soirée [provides program]. In the effort of the quintet or sextet of able musicians, headed by the two we have named, there is as sincere a tribute to music itself as almost any we have to chronicle in the happenings of a year.”