Concert and Laughing Gas Exhibition

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Price: $.15; .25 for 2

Event Type:
Band, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 August 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 January 1863, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 February 1863, 7.
“Dr. C. has the pleasure to announce that, for this occasion, he has engaged Grafulla’s full SEVENTH REGIMENT BAND, who will commence the entertainment with A GRAND CONCERT of ravishing music. Dr. C. pays this magnificent band ONE DOLLAR PER MINUTE for their performances.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 February 1863, 7.
Two ads, one specifically for Seventh Regiment Band.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 04 February 1863, 8.

“Music with Laughter.—The full band of the Seventh regiment has been engaged by Dr. Colton to give a concert at the Cooper Institute this evening, introductory to his exhibition of the laughing gas. This entertainment filled the Academy of Music on Saturday evening.”

COMMENT: There is no mention in any ads of the Seventh Regiment Band at the Saturday performance.  Only Colton.