Philharmonic Society of New York Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jan 1868, 2:30 PM

Program Details

Rehearsal for the third concert of the series.

Orchestra comprised of one hundred musicians.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York
2)
Symphony, no. 9, op. 125, D minor
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Jessonda, overture
Composer(s): Spohr

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 January 1868, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 January 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 January 1868.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 January 1868, 8.
5)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 17 January 1868.

“To Philharmonic Rehearsal this aftn. and heard the Ninth Symphony, down to the Tempo di Marcia section of the Fourth Movement, and Spohr’s Jessonda. The overture is a beautiful piece of artistic work.  I do not see that it is anything more. The symphony grows on me every time I hear it, especially it’s most noble third movement-- serious rather than sad--quite matchless in its way. As to the Introduction to the 4th movement, it seems to me utterly vertiginous—flighty—daft—non compos—crack-brained, incoherent and bedlamitic.”