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)
"Waldandacht"
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)
"Erlkönig"
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)
INTERMISSION
10)
Martha, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified
11)
"Rheinsage"
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.