Event Information
Venue(s):
Irving Hall
Price: $.50
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Choral
Performance Forces:
Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
9 May 2024
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 Jan 1863, 7:15 PM
Program Details
Three choral works:
Verhulst: “Veni Creator Spiritus†four part chorus for male voices
Mendelssohn: “Wandering time†Chorus/quartette for male voices
Rossini: “Tantum ergo†three-part chorus for male voices
COMMENT: “Choruses sustained by: Mr. Camp; Mr. DuClos; Mr. Frisbee; Mr. Goode; Mr. Howe; Mr. Neaves; Mr. Seymour; Mr. Frost and other amateurs of talent.â€
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
3)
Composer(s): Cherubini
4)
aka Fantasie for violin, Norma
Composer(s): Appy
5)
aka 'Tis all for thee
Composer(s): Bassford
6)
Composer(s): Donizetti
7)
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
12)
Composer(s): Donizetti
13)
aka The Three fishers;
Composer(s): Hullah
14)
aka Ah, se il fratel;
Life has no power
Composer(s): Donizetti
15)
aka Tremola;
Tremolo;
Le tremolo
Composer(s): Beriot
16)
aka Kitty Tyrrel
Composer(s): Glover
Citations
1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 19 January 1863, 2.
Johnson is “of Dr. Muhlenberg’s Church.†Berge is “the organist of the church of St. Francis Xavier.â€
“Some students of the General Theological Seminary, who lately gave a successful concert for the benefit of their chapel fund, will [sing]. . . . [Berge] has consented to preside at the piano.â€
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 26 January 1863, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 January 1863, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 January 1863, 7.
Full program, time, price, performers.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 03 February 1863, 5.
“[L]ike all affairs of the kind, [it] was wearisome from the admixture of sacred and secular subjects. There was a great deal of volunteer talent, too, which did not add to the cheerfulness of the occasion. Proprietors of music halls should make it a condition that neither children in arms nor amateurs should be admitted – whereby unpleasant noises would be avoided. The best morceaux were interpreted by artists, namely Made. Clara M. Brinkerhoff, who sang a sacred song by Cherubini, and an interminable piece [by] Alary.â€
6)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 07 February 1863, 357.
Hawley “possesses a fine contralto voice, and sings ballads with much expression. . . . The gentlemen vocalists were, we believe, amateurs; at any rate, we hope they were.—It has always been our opinion, however, in spite of the charitable silence of that dash,--that from the moment an amateur appears on a public stage, however private, he or she must be judged by the same standard as the professional artist. Mr. Appy, the violinist, played a fantasia on themes by Bellini, and De Beriot’s Tremolo, with the elegance and purity of tone, characteristic of the French school, to which he belongs.â€