Grand Concert of Military Music in aid of the Vosburgh Monument Fund

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Promenade concert.

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 13 February 1863, 2.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 February 1863, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 February 1863, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 February 1863, 7.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 16 February 1863, 8.
“It does not often happen that the Academy of Music can be seen to such advantage as it was on Saturday night, when the Light Guard Band gave a grand concert of military music. . . . The attendance, we are glad to say, was without limit, every nook and corner being crowded, and hundreds leaving the Academy from the bare impossibility of entering. We need scarcely add that the music by Dodworth’s full band was thoroughly delightful. It is expected that $2,000 will be raised by this concert toward the Fund.”
6)
Review: New-York Times, 17 February 1863, 5.

“The chirruping and twittering of a thousand canaries; the mellifluous strains of a half a hundred of Dodworth’s best musicians, led by the immortal Harvey B.; the Academy of Music, resplendent with illumination and gorgeous with manifold decorations, and the 5,000 attentive representatives of the youth, beauty, wealth and fashion of the metropolis, made the promenade concert of the Seventy-first Regiment, on Saturday evening, a memorable success. . . .

Seldom has the Academy presented so brilliant a spectacle, for as many could gain admission thronged the building during the concert, crowding even the upper tiers, while at all the doors the later-comers were content if they could but catch a glimpse of the festive scene within…

Nevertheless, the promenade concert was, as we have said, a success. The decorations of the room comprised many military arms, equipments [sic], and colors; the visitors were, many of them, in military costume; and most of the musical selections were of a military character.”