Arion Society Annual Masquerade Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Price: $2 (one gentleman and ladies)

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 August 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Feb 1863, Evening

Program Details

Two unidentified bands.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Band, unidentified
2)
Murmures aeolichiens, Les, [musical farce]
Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 January 1863, 5.
“The programme includes a little of everything and a great deal of dancing.”
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 February 1863, 2.
“The Arion Society – one of the largest and best musical societies in the city.”
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 February 1863, 5.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 February 1863, 7.
Ball Committee includes Henry Steinway, 52nd St., near Lexington Ave. “The principal feature of the evening will be a Grand Procession, on which occasion PRINCE HARLEQUIN declares himself DICTATOR Of the Disunited States; reestablishes under his scepter, through mirth and fun, THE UNION AS IT OUGHT TO BE; (At least for that evening).”
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 February 1863, 7.
6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 February 1863, 5.
Describes what will take place at the ball and decorations in the theater. “[P]romises to be the grandest affair of the kind ever undertaken in America, and already agitates the community with the scale of its splendor.”
7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 February 1863, 7.
8)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 February 1863, 2.
9)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 February 1863, 3.
R: NYTr 02/13/63, p.3 – “[T]he most brilliant entertainment of the season.”
10)
Review: New-York Times, 16 February 1863, 8.
“[M]ore than a success, so far as the attendance was concerned. Niblo’s Theatre (floored over as at the Japanese Ball) and the numerous halls connected with it, were literally overflowing. . . . There was no Floor Committee that could be detected with the naked eye; and very inefficient regulations prevailed in the cloak-room. On these subjects and also anent the supper-room we have been overwhelmed with letters of complaint.” COMMENT: Ball sponsored by Beer and Schirmer, Henry Steinway, Firth, Pond, and others.