Mrs. J.E. Thomas’s Annual Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Conductor(s):
Pedro de Abella

Price: $.50; $1 reserved

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 August 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jan 1863, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  William Castle;  Sherwood C. Campbell (role: baritone);  Sebastian Bach Mills (piano);  Mrs. J. E. [soprano] Thomas (role: soprano)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1863, 7.
Abella mentioned. Prices.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 January 1863, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 January 1863, 5.
AN: NYT 01/26/63, p.5 – “She has summoned to her assistance an amount of talent that might put more pretentious concert-givers to the blush. . . . [C]oncert-goers may possibly have the pleasure of seeing and hearing Mme. Currere [sic], a beautiful pianiste not indigenous to this Continent. . . . The programme is excellent and varied; opera music from those whose facile fingers can master it, and old Scotch and English ballads which Mrs. Thomas promises to sing.” COMMENT: “Mme. Currere” is probably Erminia Carrere. We don't know if she performed. K: Scottish music; English music
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 January 1863, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 January 1863, 7.
6)
Review: New-York Times, 29 January 1863, 4.

[Bad weather.]

     "Mrs. Thomas' assistants and subordinate officers lent her their best efforts, and neither urged postponement nor really threw obstacles in the way, while ostensibly lending loyal cooperation. Messrs. Castle and Campbell sang, and Mr. Mills played, as well as though the walls of Irving Hall were bursting with an audience, and the [illeg.] giver of the concert brought her best voice and talent upon the stage. But what magic summons can bring people out from their warm firesides when rain and snow fill the air and mud carpets streets and crossings? Certainly there was a fair circle of friends present, but not as many as the merits of the occasion demanded, though it is probable that many seats were paid for in advance which were not filled."

7)
Announcement: Dwight's Journal of Music, 31 January 1863, 352.
Notice is dated Jan 27 and says the concert will be “this evening.”
8)
Review: New-York Times, 03 February 1863, 5.
“Mrs. J.E. Thomas [is] a meritorious singer and teacher, who, once a year, meets her friends in this way. The programme was singularly free from mediocrities, being interpreted, and we may add faultlessly, by the lady herself and by [Castle, Campbell and Mills].”