Ole Bull Farewell Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $1; $1.50 reserved

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 June 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Jun 1868, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Hoffman
Participants:  Egbert [pianist] Lansing
3)
Composer(s): Albites
Participants:  Gustavus F. Hall
4)
aka Mountain vision, A; Sennenbesuch, Ein; Saeterbesoek
Composer(s): Bull
Participants:  Ole Bull
5)
aka Muto rimase il labbro
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Jenny Landsman
6)
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Ole Bull
7)
Composer(s): Lefébure-Wély
Participants:  George Washbourne Morgan
8)
aka Fenerezza, La
Composer(s): Brambilla
Text Author: Brambilla
Participants:  Jenny Landsman
9)
Composer(s): Parish-Alvars
Participants:  Egbert [pianist] Lansing
10)
aka Come into the garden Maude
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Tennyson
Participants:  George [tenor] Weeks
11)
Composer(s): Bull
Participants:  Ole Bull

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 June 1868.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 June 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 02 June 1868, 5.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 03 June 1868, 4.

“The course of three farewell concerts of Ole Bull at Steinway Hall was finished in last evening’s entertainment. The house, in numbers, was like one of Dickens’ audiences, with apparently a large proportion of ladies, and so it has been at all of these Ole Bull concerts. The programme last night was a very good one, embracing Ole Bull and his matchless violin—Miss Jenny Landsman, a young lady ‘fair to look upon’ and delightful to listen to as a singer; Mr. G. F. Hall, a good vocalist; Mr. G. W. Morgan, the popular organist; Mr. George S. Weeks, a fine singer of sentimental music, and Mr. E. Lansing, a thorough master of the piano. Here were varieties without the Hamlet of the play; but with him and his miraculously musical fiddle it was something extra; and, what’s more, the audience were [sic] so well satisfied not only with the head centre, but also with his well chosen satellites, that nearly double the bill of fare contracted for was exacted from them. As the great Norwegian violinist is quite as entertaining before the public, and can show a better record in practical works of humanity than the great Cockney novelist, we have only to say, wherever he may go in his wanderings, ‘Good luck to Old Bull.’”

5)
Review: New York Post, 03 June 1868.

“Ole Bull’s last concert in this city previous to his departure for Europe, took place at Steinway Hall last night. The absorption of this great artist in his instrument is communicated always to his audiences, who listen in deep silence and sympathy. The large audience last night was enchanted by the usual spell.

“Mr. George W. Morgan played an organ solo with his usual effect. Mr. Egbert Lansing performed exquisitely on the piano a fantasia from ‘Dinorah’ and the ‘Danse des Fees’ of Alvars. Mr. Hall showed his fine tenor to advantage in two songs, and a duet with Miss Jenny Landsmann, and this young lady gave in addition, ‘La Separazione’ from Rossini, and ‘La Fenerezza’ of Brambilla, with the most enthusiastic applause. She has a very fine and highly cultivated contralto voice and sings correctly. Her apparent fault is a tendency to occasional throat notes.

“Each artist was encored.”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 03 June 1868, 5.

“The first concert of Mr. Ole Bull’s present series took place last evening at Steinway Hall. The attendance was simply overwhelming. The large and the small halls were, as they frequently are, united; and there was barely standing room at that. The orchestra platform where the choral forces usually ‘simmer out,’ was on this occasion also occupied by the public. Mr. Ole Bull, to whose performances we only now refer—leaves for Europe in a few days, but will return in November next. As a gentleman he is esteemed by every one; as an artist there may yet be something to be said. The task seems almost impossible after the yards of fulsome flattery with which he has of late been treated; but Mr. Ole Bull’s claims are so great that he will, we are sure, be the first to appreciate a just, and not a ridiculous estimate of them. In the interim, we record his last success with pleasure. It will cheer his passage across the ocean and, we trust, hasten his return hitherward. She was encored and bouqueted last night in the most approved manner. The Roman mother said to her unfortunate but tentatively heroic son, ‘Come back with the shield, or upon it’—showing—as a witty writer has remarked—that she cared more for the shield than for her own natural offspring. We do not desire Mr. Ole Bull to come back with one of the bouquets we encountered last night, although he might readily be accommodated upon it. It was much bigger than a Roman shield. This flower business has been carried to excess, and excites suspicion. We are gradually proceeding from the dimensions of a cart-wheel to the superfices of a pond, and it is evident that if the mania continues, a popular artist like Mr. Old Bull will deprive the entire city of its blossoms; greenhouses will be in vain, and tube-roses a dream of Norway.”

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1868, 70, 3d col., top.