Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek
Price: $2, $1.50 reserved depending on location; $1
Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
13 September 2020
“A repetition of the efforts of this extraordinary artist last night only strengthened the opinion so universally expressed on the first evening that Miss Patti is a marvellous [sic] songstress, such as we have not been favored with for many years. Her reception at Steinway Hall last night was quite as cordial and enthusiastic as that of Saturday, when she made her first appearance after an absence of six years. A fortunate absence it was for the New York musical public, because she has returned to them with a voice cultivated to the finest point of excellence, the result of careful study and untiring practice; a result, too, which the leading musical minds of Europe learned to appreciate before we had the opportunity of pronouncing upon it. That we are content and glad to welcome a singer of such great merit is sufficient for us. Last night Patti was very fine in the cavatina from ‘Traviata,’ in which she brought all the full and delicate capacities of her voices into play. She was equally happy in the valse composed for her by Ritter—the accompaniment of which was delicious—and in Auber’s famous laughing song, where the versatility of her voice, the delicacy and the power combined to have ample display. We had a better opportunity of judging the great talents of Mr. Ritter last night than on the first occasion. His playing of Mendelssohn’s concerto in G minor, and his own exquisite composition, the Nocturne and ‘Poacher’s Song,’ established his reputation, not alone as a performer of rare merit, in fineness of touch and unexceptionable execution, but as a composer of considerable talent. Mr. Prume, too, excelled himself on the violin, and proved himself in the Freyschutz fantasie of Weber especially, a master of his instrument and fully deserving of the applause bestowed upon him.”
“The second of the series of Carlotta Patti [sic, no small caps] concert was given at Steinway Hall last evening, in presence of an audience more numerous and brilliant than attended the first. To-night Mlle. Carlotta Patti sings, and MM. Ritter and Prume play, at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. They reappear in this City on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.”
“Another crowded concert at Steinway Hall last night showed that the Patti excitement is a genuine one, widely pervading the musical public. Patti sung [sic] with all her usual skill and dazzling brilliancy, and was most warmly applauded. This evening she gives a concert in Brooklyn, and to-morrow night will be again at Steinway Hall.”