Old Guard Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Price: $3 for a gentleman and lady; $2 extra ladies’ tickets

Event Type:
Band, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Apr 1869, Evening

Program Details

Program included “old quicksteps and marches of light guard and city guard.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dodworth Band;  Dodworth Orchestra

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 April 1869, 7.

Same advertisements as those in the New York Herald.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 April 1869, 5.

Multiple advertisements on the same page, each provides different information. “DODWORTH’S MAMMOTH BANDS.”

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 April 1869, 4.

No mention of music; notes that the floor was crowded with dancers