Columbia College Student's Semi-Annual Concert: 3rd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 December 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Feb 1863, 11:00 AM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Helmsmüller's German Orchestra
2)
Lucrezia Borgia, duetto and chorus
Composer(s): Donizetti
3)
Lucia di Lammermoor, act 1, finale
Composer(s): Donizetti
4)
Upidee galop
Composer(s): Helmsmüller
5)
Frühlingsklaegle
aka Fruhlingsklaegle; Frauling’s krier; Frühlingslier ; Spring sounds
Composer(s): Gung'l
6)
Pardon de Ploërmel, Le, cavatina
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
7)
"Stella, La"
Composer(s): Arditi
8)
Allez toujours
Composer(s): Helmsmüller
9)
Ernani, introduction and chorus
Composer(s): Verdi
Text Author: Piave
10)
Pardon de Ploërmel, Le, Hoel's aria
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
11)
Tutti frutti
Composer(s): Mašek
12)
Aroldo, duet
aka duetto
Composer(s): Verdi
13)
"Ehestands Freuden"
Composer(s): Bachelor
14)
Lucia di Lammermoor, sextet
Composer(s): Donizetti

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Times, 18 February 1863, 2.

      "The third "Semi-Annual" of the Students of Columbia College was celebrated yesterday, at Wallack's Theatre--which, notwithstanding the storm, was comfortably filled long before 11 o'clock, the holur at which the exercises were announced to begin. A brighter, or more cheerful, or more intelligent audience is rarely seen in New-York. Composed in good part of the friends and relatives of the students, of course it was prepared to be pleased, and not even the fifteen or twenty minutes' delay at the commencement was potent enough to destroy its good humor,--which was further aided by some excellent music by the orchestra, under the direction of Helmsmuller. At length the curtain rose, and disclosed a semicircle of gowned students, among whom was seated the Chaplain, Rev. John Murray Forbes, an Alumnus of Columbia, who opened the order of exercises with a brief prayer. The presiding officer, Mr. H. A. Nazro, of the Senior Class, a manly-looking and well-mannered youth, now stepped forward and delivered, in clear and measured tones, a neat and tasteful address, in which he said that when, two years ago, the Faculty and Trustees of the College came to the conclusion to dispense with further Semi-Annuals, on account of the expense attending them, and the state of the country, the students resolved to continue them on their own responsibility and at their own expense,--a resolution to which the aforesaid Faculty and Trustees made no decided objection, though they deemed it inconsistent with the course they had decided upon to lend their presence at future celebrations. With a brief and petinent allusion to the war, the speaker drew his address (which was rewarded with a bouquet) to a graceful conclusion, and announced the first orator, Mr. Alfred C. Clark. Before proceeding to notice the successive efforts of the young gentlemen, we will copy, for the benefit of the reader, the list of speakers and titles of their orations: 

[complete list of orations and music]

[description of works and reciters].

     The music by the orchestra was uniformly excellent and appropriate."