Academy of Music

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Jerome Ravel

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 February 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
30 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Mildenhall’s comedy preceded the gymnastic performance.

American debut of gymnast and athlete Leotard; originally from Paris and lately from the various European capitals, he is giving limited engagements in all of the principal American cities where sufficient capacity may be obtained. No performance took place Saturday because of Leotard’s indisposition.

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 17 October 1868, 222.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 October 1868, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 October 1868.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 October 1868, 6.

“Jerome Ravel will have the honor to present Leotard to the American public…an awesome, original piece.”

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 24 October 1868, 230.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 26 October 1868, 2.
7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 October 1868, 7.
8)
Article: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 27 October 1868, 8.

Leotard’s band caused a public disturbance.

9)
Announcement: New York Post, 28 October 1868, 2.
10)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 October 1868, 6.
11)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 October 1868, 8.
12)
Review: New York Post, 30 October 1868, 2.

No mention of music.

13)
Review: New York Sun, 30 October 1868.

No mention of music.

14)
Review: New-York Times, 30 October 1868, 7.

No mention of music.

15)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 31 October 1868, 238.
16)
Announcement: New-York Times, 31 October 1868, 4.
17)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 31 October 1868, 2.

No mention of music.

18)
Review: New-York Times, 02 November 1868, 5.

Part of review of Kellogg opera performance. “Miss Kellogg will sing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday and thereafter will travel East under the direction of Mr. Max Strakosch. We may be sure that she will meet with a hearty welcome. Upon her return to New-York we hope once more to hear her in opera but with different support to that which has been recently vouchsafed to her. We trust, too, that no gymnast may have possession of the ‘principal art establishment in America.’ An opera on the trapeze with the guys and wires and platforms of M. Leotard’s apparatus in the body of the house and upon the stage, is a sorry sight and is apt to recall the downward career of the Astor-place Opera House, when the muses were succeeded precipitously by M. Donezetti’s monkeys. There is one comfort, however; the fumbler has met with a distinct failure, while the prima donna has been received with acclaim.  We mean no disrespect to M. Leotard, who is as graceful as anything turning round in the air can be, and gets as near breaking his neck as any person of regular habits can be expected to get without great personal discomfort. Only the beer garden or concert saloon is his proper sphere, not the Academy of Music. And it may be added that, under the peculiar circumstances of Miss Kellogg’s return, it was not only vexatious, but spiteful, that, for the sake of a few dollars, she should be involved with the fag end of a circus—for on each night the Academy of Music had that appearance.”

19)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 November 1868, 247.

“A greater failure has seldom been witnessed in this country.”  No mention of music.