Harmonic Society Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Unknown

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jan 1863

Program Details



Date, time and venue of the rehearsal are unknown. There was only a very brief mention in DJM 01/17/63, p.334.

Could not find an actual performance of Last Judgment in the month of April 1863. [Good Friday was on April 3, 1865.]

The New York Harmonic Society did perform on April 7, 1863, at the Academy of Music, during a meeting of the Knights of St. Patrick in aid of the suffering poor of Ireland.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  New York Harmonic Society
2)
Letzten Dinge, Die
aka Last Judgment;
Composer(s): Spohr
Text Author: Rochlitz
Participants:  New York Harmonic Society

Citations

1)
Announcement: Dwight's Journal of Music, 17 January 1863, 334.
“The Harmonic Society are rehearsing Spohr’s ‘Last Judgment’ to sing on Good Friday.”