Thomas Sunday Concert: 16th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 August 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The programs in the citations indicate simply a “cavatina” from Les Huguenots; Music in Gotham assumes it was “Dame noble et sage,” as Hoflé had recently performed it (see event entry of 03/10/69, W. K. Bassford and J. H. Poznanski Concert).

Music in Gotham assumes that Josey Hoflé sang “Voi che sapete,” “Dame noble et sage,” and “Je suis Titania” (she is listed as a performer in the citations but not in association with any particular work on the program).

It is unclear how much of Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus was performed; the citations indicate the whole work, but this seems unlikely given the length of the program.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Josey [soprano] Hoflé;  August [pianist] Arnold
2)
Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Die, selection
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Nocturne, piano, op. 15, no. 2, F-sharp major
Composer(s): Chopin
4)
Stücke aus Tannhäuser und Lohengrin, "Einzug der Gäste auf der Wartburg"
aka March from Wagner's Tannhäuser; Tannhäuser Marsch ; Tannhauser march; Stucke aus Tannhauser und Lohengrin. Einzug der Gaste auf der Wartburg
Composer(s): Liszt
5)
Nozze di Figaro, Le, "Voi che sapete"
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Josey [soprano] Hoflé
6)
Symphony, no. 45, F-sharp minor. Presto-adagio
Composer(s): Haydn
7)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber
8)
Paraphrases de concert on Verdi's Rigoletto
aka Reminiscences of Rigoletto; Fantasia Rigoletto; Rigoletto fantasie
Composer(s): Liszt
9)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 107, D major. Scherzo
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
10)
Huguenots, Les, "Dame noble et sage"
aka Pagenlied; Page's song; Noble seigneurs, salut; Nobil signor; Nobil donna
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants:  Josey [soprano] Hoflé
11)
Mignon, "Je suis Titania"
aka Polonaise
Composer(s): Thomas
Participants:  Josey [soprano] Hoflé

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 March 1869, 3.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 13 March 1869.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 March 1869, 7.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 March 1869, 9.

Includes program.

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 March 1869, 5.

“The noisy entrance of Tammany into the Sunday concert field apparently neither attracted nor repelled any of the patrons of Theodore Thomas night before last. Mr. August Arnold, the pianist, was well received on his second appearance, and Miss Josey Hoflé also met with favor. The scherzo from the ‘Reformation Symphony’ was encored.”

6)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 27 March 1869, 6.

“At Mr. Thomas’s 16th Sunday Concert were performed:

   ‘Die Geschoepfe des Prometheus,’ op. 43…….Beethoven

   2 movements from ‘Departure’ Symphony……Haydn

   Overture, ‘Oberon’…..Von Weber

   Scherzo from ‘Reformation Symphony’…..Mendelssohn

Miss Josey Hofle and Mr. August Arnold (pianist) were the soloists. The former acquitted herself creditably, while the latter hardly equalled his performance at the 13th concert.”