Thomas Sunday Concert: 17th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

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

Price: $.75 reserved; $.50

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 April 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Frederick Letsch; Hugo Bussmeyer; Elena [soprano] Lanari

2)

Suite in canon form, op. 10

Composer(s): Grimm

3)

Fantasie on Bellini's La sonnambula, op. 46

Composer(s): Thalberg

4)

Danao, Il, aria

Composer(s): Persiani

5)

Hebriden, Die, op. 26

aka The Hebrides; Fingal's Cave; Staffa, Fingal’s Cave; Fingalshöhle; Ouvertüre zur einsamen Insel

Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

6)

Fantasia on Verdi's Ernani

Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Participants: Frederick Letsch

7)

Nocturne, op. 12

Composer(s): Bussmeyer

8)

Banjo, The, op. 15

aka American sketch

Composer(s): Gottschalk

9)

Morceaux de salon, op. 22. Rêverie

Composer(s): Vieuxtemps

10)

Freischütz, Der, "Und ob die Wolke"

aka Freischutz, Der. Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle; And even if clouds; Agathe’s prayer; Preghiera

Composer(s): Weber

11)

aka Schiller fest march

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 March 1869, 2.

2)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 March 1869, 3.

“Theodore Thomas’s orchestra will repeat at the Steinway Hall concert to-morrow the first and second movements of the suite by Grimm, which they played at the last Symphony Soiree. The vocalist of the occasion will be Signora Lanari.”

3)

Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 March 1869, 1.

“At Theodore Thomas’s Concert last Sunday the principal attraction was, as usual, the orchestra, which played, among other good things, a part of the Suite, by Grimm, which was so much admired at the last Symphony Soirée, and a capital arrangement of airs from ‘Ernani.’ In the latter there was a fine trombone solo by Mr. Letsch. Signora Lanari was the vocalist of the evening. She is an artist of remarkable culture, and on this occasion developed more richness of voice than she has hitherto exhibited.”