Schillerbund Musical Soirée and Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Germania Assembly Rooms

Conductor(s):
Charles Mangold [cond./piano/comp.]

Price: $1 for a man and woman

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 January 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The Thomas Orchestra was not used in full; advertisements note that members of it were hired to comprise the orchestra for this performance.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Schillerbund Gesangverein
2)
Gazza ladra, La, overture
aka Diebische Elster, Die; Thieving magpie
Composer(s): Rossini
3)
Gesänge, men's voices, op. 192. Stille Wasserrose, Die
aka Gesange, men's voice, op. 192
Composer(s): Abt
4)
"Hymne an die Musik"
aka Hymne an die Tonkunst
Composer(s): Billeter
5)
Fantasia on Offenbach's La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
8)
"Einkehr, Die"
Composer(s): Zöllner [composer]
9)
Hermannsschlacht, Die, "Bachus Chor"
Composer(s): Mangold [composer]
10)
Lucrezia Borgia, finale
Composer(s): Donizetti

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 October 1868, 6.

Preliminary announcement; little information.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 October 1868, 8.
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 October 1868, 6.

Program. Notes orchestra is comprised of musicians from the Thomas Orchestra.

4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 24 October 1868, 8.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 October 1868, 8.
6)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 31 October 1868, 202.

The musical soiree of the Schillerbund at the Germania Assembly Rooms [on the 25th] offered a diverse and satisfactory program. The performance of Rossini’s overture from Diebische Elster, the overture of Dichter und Bauer, and the finale from Lucrezia Borgia satisfied. We missed the first part of the vocal performances; however, we were told the “Stille Wasserrose” and also Billeter’s “Hymne an die Musik” were done with precision. The vocal performances of the second part were the splendid “Einkehr” by Zöllner and the “Bachus Chor” from Mangold’s “Hermannsschlacht”. We would have wished for a different bass solo; however, all in all, the concert was very satisfactory. The event was overcrowded.