Sunday Evening Concert: 7th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Manager / Director:
Lafayette F. Harrison

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $1 reserved

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 December 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  Bertha Johannsen
4)
aka Drommebilleder; Drømme Billeder fantasi; Traumbilder potpourri; Traumbilder selections; Traumbilder fantasie; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter
Composer(s): Lumbye
5)
Participants:  Eduard Heindl
6)
aka Work, flute, unidentified
Participants:  Eduard Heindl

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 October 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 14 October 1866, 5.

“The seventh sacred concert will take place this evening at Irving Hall. Madame Johannsen, soprano; Mr. Heind’l, flute; Mr. Colby, pianist, and Mr. Thomas’ orchestra will appear in a splendid programme.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 October 1866, 7.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 15 October 1866, 5.

“Sunday Concert--Irving Hall.

The best proof of the popularity and success of Mr. Harrison’s concerts was the immense attendance last evening, in spite of the inclemency of the weather. Beethoven’s symphony in D No. 2 was played by Mr. Thomas’ orchestra in excellent style. Madame Johannsen sang an aria from Flotow’s stradella [sic] in the artistic style that has characterized all her renditions at these concerts. In Lumbye’s ‘Vision in a Dream,’ Mr. Heind’l played a zitter [sic] solo, and again a flute solo, and was vehemently applauded in both. The only thing wanting in the sacred concerts at Irving Hall is a sufficient number of instrumentalists to do full justice to the extraordinarily heavy orchestral programmes. No other orchestra in the city but that of Mr. Thomas could render those works so well with from thirty to forty performers.”

5)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 17 October 1866, 168.

Thomas’s Sunday concerts are thriving. The programs and performances are honorable.