Otto Hoym Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Oct 1866

Program Details

Benefit and last appearance of Otto Hoym.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater, orchestra;  J. H. Pollack;  Bertha Johannsen
2)
Schlechter mensch, Ein
Text Author: Rosen
3)
Alessandro Stradella, selection
aka Selection from Stradella
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  Bertha Johannsen
4)
Lieder, op. 4. In dunkler Nacht
aka In darkening night
Composer(s): Luther
Participants:  J. H. Pollack
5)
"Trost in der Ferne"
Composer(s): Krebs [composer]
Participants:  Bertha Johannsen
6)
"Walzer von Bonzana"
Participants:  Bertha Johannsen

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 October 1866, 6.
2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 October 1866, 8.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 24 October 1866, 185.
4)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 October 1866, 8.

Pollack possesses a round, full, and resonant voice and performed with warmth and finesse.