Harrison Sunday Concert: 12th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Manager / Director:
Lafayette F. Harrison

Conductor(s):
George W. Colby

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Dec 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Leopold de Meyer;  George W. Colby;  James Caulfield;  Annie Kemp;  Signor Fortuna;  Wenzel Kopta
2)
Improvisation on Offenbach’s Grande Duchesse
Composer(s): Meyer
Participants:  Leopold de Meyer
3)
Introduction and variations on Rossini's Non più mesta
aka Non priu mesta; Bravour variations; Variations on the G string
Composer(s): Paganini
Participants:  Wenzel Kopta

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 December 1867.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1867.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 December 1867, 4.
4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 December 1867, 8.
5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 December 1867, 4.

“There was an average house at Steinway Hall last evening. Mrs. Anna Kemp Bowler, and Signor Fortuna sang acceptably. Mr. Wensel Kopta played the violin as feelingly as usual, introducing Paganini’s G string variations. Mr. James Caulfield presided at the organ, and Mr. Leopold de Meyer delighted the audience with his piano inspirations. Mr. De Meyer was in fine musical humor. During one of his brilliant incantations, in response to an encore, he threw in the airy gems of ‘The Grand Duchess,’ which were received with almost boisterous expressions of delight. The Sunday concerts evidently lose none of their charms for the public.”