Grand Musical Festival: 8th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Manager / Director:
Lafayette F. Harrison

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz
George Matzka
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Price: $1; $.50 reserved

Event Type:
Band, Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Jun 1867, Evening

Program Details

Oratorio and symphony festival. Selections from Meyerbeer's L'Étoile du nord arranged for four pianos by Pease.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Seventh Regiment Band; Orchestra, unidentified; John Nelson Pattison; Alfred Humphries Pease; Euphrosyne Parepa; George W. Colby; Marie Gilbert; William Castle; Felice J. Eben

2)

Fidelio, (1806), overture

aka Leonore overture, no. 3; Leonora overture, no. 3

Conductor: Anschütz, Carl

Composer(s): Beethoven

3)

Lieder, op. 34. Mädchen von Juda, Das

aka Jewish maiden

Composer(s): Kücken

Participants: Sherwood C. Campbell

4)

Étoile du nord, L', selections

aka Etoile du nord, L', selections

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Participants: John Nelson Pattison; Alfred Humphries Pease; George W. Colby; Marie Gilbert

5)

Giovanna d'Arco, romanza

Composer(s): Verdi

Participants: Euphrosyne Parepa

6)

Africaine, L', selections

aka Africaine potpourri

Conductor: Grafulla, Claudio Solomon

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

7)

Marche marocaine

Composer(s): Meyer

8)

aka Look me in the face, dear

Composer(s): Graham

Text Author: Graham

Participants: William Castle

9)

Lombardi alla prima crociata, I, romanza

Composer(s): Verdi

10)

aka Enclume; Amboss

Composer(s): Parlow

11)

"Lo! Hear the gentle lark"

aka Gentle lark; Lo! Here the gentle lark

Composer(s): Bishop

Participants: Felice J. Eben; Euphrosyne Parepa

12)

Fackeltänz, military band, unidentified

aka Marche aux flambeaux; Torch song; Torch dance; Fackeltanze

Conductor: Anschütz, Carl

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 June 1867, 4.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 June 1867, 7.

Includes performers and program.

3)

Article: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 08 June 1867, 696.

Festival has been very successful economically. The revenue was $2000 to $3000 per concert. However, artistically the concerts were less satisfactory. There was not enough time and care given to rehearsals; thus only the older and often performed orchestra and vocal pieces were decently performed. (…)

4)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 June 1867, 6.

5)

Announcement: New York Post, 08 June 1867.

6)

Announcement: New-York Times, 08 June 1867, 5.

7)

Article: New-York Times, 09 June 1867, 4.

Commends Harrison’s very successful “daring experiment” for this series, which required a major upfront outlay of cash, took place late in the season, and “appealed to the sensibility and the intellect rather than the passions” (included no ballet, live animals, or scenery).

8)

Review: New York Musical Gazette, July 1867, 68.

“On Saturday there were again presented two miscellaneous programmes. The violent rain storm in the evening did not prevent the usual crowd. The audience was scarcely smaller than it had been during the rest of this remarkable series of entertainments.”