Mason-Thomas Chamber Music Soirée: 1st

Event Information

Venue(s):
Dodworth's Hall

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 August 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Dec 1862, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Mason's performance of Schumann's Fantasy Pieces included "Warum?' and one or two other pieces.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra];  William Mason;  George Matzka;  Frederick Bergner;  Charles Preusser;  Joseph Mosenthal;  August F. Zeiss [violin]
2)
Quartet, strings, no. 1, op. 18, no. 1, F major
Composer(s): Beethoven
Participants:  Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra];  George Matzka;  Frederick Bergner;  Charles Preusser
3)
Quintet, piano, strings, op. 87, E-flat major
Composer(s): Hummel
Participants:  Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra];  William Mason;  George Matzka;  Frederick Bergner;  Charles Preusser
4)
Quintet, strings, K. 516, G minor
aka Quintet, strings, no. 3, G minor
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra];  George Matzka;  Frederick Bergner;  Joseph Mosenthal;  August F. Zeiss [violin]
5)
Fantasiestücke, op. 12
Composer(s): Schumann
Participants:  William Mason

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 December 1862, 5.
Gives programs for all six soirées.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 15 December 1862.
“The artists are talented and the programme varied, rendering the soirees attractive, the music being of a high order.”
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 17 December 1862, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 December 1862, 7.
“Eighth Season of Six Soiree of Chamber Music.”
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 December 1862, 2.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 22 December 1862, 3.
7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 22 December 1862, 5.
Program, time.
8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 December 1862, 7.
9)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 03 January 1863, 318.
“In these sad, cloudy days, music, to those who love it, is a true comfort and solace, and never have I felt this more than at Mason and Thomas’s first Soirée last Tuesday. A Quartet of Beethoven, Quintets of Hummel and Mozart, and two or three of Schumann’s lovely Fantasie Stücke, (among them the mysterious ‘Warum?’) were so finely interpreted that the listener could enjoy their beauties without alloy, and be wonderfully cheered by what he heard.”