Helvetia Männerchor Concert: Benefit for Swiss Flood Victims

Event Information

Venue(s):
New York Casino

Price: $1 for a man and woman

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 April 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified; Helvetia Männerchor

2)

Dichter und Bauer, overture

aka Poet and peasant overture

Composer(s): Suppé

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified

3)

aka Waldnacht

Composer(s): Abt

Participants: Helvetia Männerchor

4)

Air varié, unidentified

Composer(s): Beriot

5)

"Frülings-Ruhe"

aka Fruhlings-Ruhe

Composer(s): Kreutzer

6)

Grande duchesse de Gérolstein, La, selections

Composer(s): Offenbach

7)

aka Erlkonig; Erlkoenig; Erlking; Erl-king; Erl king; Elf King, The

Composer(s): Schubert

8)

Euryanthe, "Jägerchor"

aka Jagerchor; Thale dampfen, die Höhen glüh’n!; Huntsmen's chorus; Hunter's chorus

Composer(s): Weber

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified; Helvetia Männerchor

9)

10)

Martha, overture

Composer(s): Flotow

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified

11)

Composer(s): Ecker

Participants: Helvetia Männerchor

12)

Fantaisie brillante sur Guillame Tell de Rossini

Composer(s): Beriot, Osborne

13)

"Nur Du Allein"

Composer(s): Abt

14)

Crispino e la comare, selections

aka Crispino potpourri

Composer(s): Ricci, Ricci

15)

"Deserteur, Der"

aka Ballade of Solomon Hermann, Ritter of Mosenthal

Composer(s): Hackel

16)

"Heimath über Alles"

Composer(s): Haydn

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified; Helvetia Männerchor

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 05 November 1862, 6.

Includes programme; “zu Gunsten [on behalf of] der Schweizerlichen Hülfsgesellschaft.”

2)

Article: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 21 November 1868, 251.

The Helvetia men’s chorus recently gave a benefit concert for the flood victims in Switzerland at the New York Casino. It was the best choral concert of the season. The program and the performances of the chorus, soloists and the conductor, Ph. Haffner, left nothing to wish for.