National Hall

Event Information

Venue(s):
National Hall [Harlem]

Price: $.75 reserved; $.50

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 May 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Dec 1869, Evening

Program Details

Pope recited Byron’s Manfred as Morgan accompanied him on the organ “with original music illustrative of the poem.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Washbourne Morgan;  E. V. Proudfoot;  William H. [actor] Pope;  Jenny [soprano] Proudfoot
2)
Ballad, unidentified
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Jenny [soprano] Proudfoot
3)
Love in high life
Participants:  E. V. Proudfoot;  William H. [actor] Pope

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 December 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 December 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 December 1869, 6.

“Wm. H. Pope, the ‘recitationist,’ is about starting out on a provincial tour with Byron’s lonely ‘Manfred.’ This evening he recites the entire poem from memory for the edification of the Harlemites, when he will be accompanied on an organ by Morgan, with original music illustrative of the poem.”