Article on the opening of the new Steinway Hall

“The new music hall erected by the Messrs. Steinway in the rear of their marble building on Fourteenth street will be opened for the first time on Monday, October 29, by Mr. Bateman’s excellent troupe of artists. Signor Brignoli, Madame Parepa, Signors Ferranti and Fortuna, Messrs. Carl Rosa, S. B. Mills and J. I. Hatton, and Theodore Thomas’ splendid orchestra will be the leading attractions at this hall at its opening. Messrs. Harrison and Bateman purpose inaugurating this winter a series of tri-weekly popular concerts at Steinway Hall, Irving Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. These, with the weekly concerts of the Cecilian Choir, it might be supposed, would furnish enough popular concert and oratorio music even for the demands of the metropolis, but they do not represent all the attractions in music which those gentlemen contemplate for the season. With opera comique at the French theatre, American opera at the New York theatre, the symphony soirees, Philharmonic concerts, the musical festivals of Messrs. Harrison and Bateman and the probable production of William Vincent Wallace’s immortal Lurline, which we hope will be brought out this season in a style worthy of such a great work, the present season will undoubtedly be the most brilliant one ever witnessed in New York.”