Männergesangverein Arion Summer Night’s Festival

Event Information

Venue(s):
Belvedere Lion Park

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Price: $2 for one gentleman and ladies

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 November 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Aug 1867, 6:00 PM

Program Details

This concert was to have taken place on 08/15, but was postponed because of bad weather to 08/16; included two unidentified orchestras.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Arion Männergesangverein;  Orchestra, unidentified
2)
Astorga, baccarola
aka Barcorola
Composer(s): Abert
3)
Rienzi, selection
Composer(s): Wagner

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 August 1867, 3.

“Grand Summer Night’s Festival, on which occasion the GREAT PARIS EXPOSITION, with all the royal visitors and the Great Prize Distribution by Napoleon I will be seen. SPLENDID DECORATIONS AND ILLUMINATION. BRILLIANT FIREWORKS. TWO GRAND ORCHESTRAS. Conductor—Carl Bergmann."

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 August 1867, 7.

For Thursday, Aug. 15.

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 14 August 1867, 2.

For Thursday, Aug. 15.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 August 1867, 7.

For Friday, Aug. 16.

5)
Review: New York Post, 17 August 1867, 2.

“The summernight’s festival of the Arion Society, announced for Thursday evening, was put off until last night, in the vain expectation that the skies would relent or the water supply run out. The Arions, like all the rest of us who have counted on fair weather, were somewhat disappointed, but bravely went through what they could of their programme, in spite of mist, threatening clouds and actual rain.  The spacious pavilion of Lion Park was brilliantly lighted and filled with a crowd of people as gay as could be expected under the circumstances.  The music was excellent, the dancing generally enjoyed, and the refreshments abundant for the occasion.”

6)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 August 1867, 5.

[Emphasis on describing carnival atmosphere, not music.]

7)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 24 August 1867, 41.

The attendance was affected by inclement weather; however, the joyous atmosphere was not. Bergmann’s orchestra opened the event, followed by Arion’s performance of two not-known pieces: a barcarola by Abert, the composer of the opera Astorga, and chorus and orchestra from Wagner’s Rienzi. Both pieces were excellently performed. (…) The audience was enthusiastic. Currently the chorus is rehearsing a rather challenging piece by Wagner: “Das Liebesmahl der Apostel” [“The love feast of the apostles” or “The Feast of the Pentecost”].