Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Price: $.50
Event Type:
Band
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
3 September 2010
“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.”