Sacred Concert: 1st

Event Information

Venue(s):
Funk’s Union Park

Proprietor / Lessee:
Adolph Schmidt [comp.-cond.]
Augustus [proprietor] Funk

Price: $.25 for men, $.10 for women

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Jun 1867, 4:00 PM

Program Details

A 30-minute pause for a promenade preceded the final three selections. The composer of Fest-Ouverture is indecipherable; Schmidt’s Emma-Mazurka was being performed for the first time.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  F. Gewalt [horn]
2)
Africaine, L', march
aka Grand march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
3)
Fest-Ouverture
Composer(s): Unknown composer
4)
Industriellen, Die, op. 44
Composer(s): Gung'l
5)
Ton aus deiner Kehle, op. 9
Composer(s): Kéler
6)
Juive, La, finale
Composer(s): Halévy
7)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
8)
Dorfmusikanten
Composer(s): Komzák
9)
Frühlingsklaegle
aka Fruhlingsklaegle; Frauling’s krier; Frühlingslier ; Spring sounds
Composer(s): Gung'l
10)
Grand potpourri
Composer(s): Hamm
11)
Nabucco, overture
Composer(s): Verdi
12)
Emma-Mazurka
Composer(s): Schmidt [comp.-cond.]
13)
"Bild der Rose, Das"
aka Image of the Rose; The Picture of a Rose; I saw a Rose
Composer(s): Reichardt [composer]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 June 1867.

“With an orchestra of 24 men.” 

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 June 1867, 8.

The orchestra is the same one that played at the New Yorker Central Halle.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 June 1867.
4)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 29 June 1867, 744.

Adolph Schmidt gave his first summer concert at Funks Union Park with much success.