Beethoven Gemischter Chor Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Germania Assembly Rooms

Conductor(s):
F. [conductor] Lang

Price: $.50 for a man and woman; $.25 per additional woman

Event Type:
Choral

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 September 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Accompaniment provided by Herr Henrichs.

Recitation of poetry interspersed between musical numbers on program.

The selection from La dame blanche is the choral introduction. Krüger's "Abendfeier" was performed by a men’s quartet of the Beethoven Gemischte Chor.

Tanzkränzchen followed the performance.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Wrede
Participants:  Turner Liedertafel
3)
aka Serenade
Composer(s): Lachner
Participants:  Laura [soprano] Haffner
4)
aka Wine chorus
Composer(s): Krüger
Participants:  Turner Liedertafel
6)
Composer(s): Fischer [composer]
Participants:  Beethoven Männerchor
7)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
8)
aka Stay with me
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  G. [singer] Alexander
9)
Composer(s): Fischer [composer]
Participants:  Herminiusverein
11)
Composer(s): Boieldieu
12)
aka In diesen heil’gen Hallen; Qui sdegno non s'accende; Within this sacred dwelling
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  [bass] Flugrath
13)
aka Im Wald
Composer(s): Möhring
Participants:  Turner Liedertafel
14)
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Fraulein [singer] Hiller
16)
Composer(s): Krüger
17)
Composer(s): Romberg
Text Author: Schiller

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 05 October 1868, 6.

Program to follow in Sunday’s paper. “With the participation of several New York singing societies and members of the Stadttheater.”

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 10 October 1868, 8.

Almost impossible to read after first two lines.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 October 1868, 8.

Only citation with program.

4)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 October 1868, 8.
5)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 17 October 1868, 169.

The Beethoven Mixed Chorus gave an evening entertainment last Sunday, which was well attended. Neither the supporting choruses, Turner Liedertafel and Beethoven Men’s Chorus, nor the mixed chorus gave outstanding performances...