Carlotta Patti Concert: 2nd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $2, $1.50 reserved depending on location; $1

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 September 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Sep 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

See also event entry of 09/21/69: Articles on Carlotta Patti and her new concert series.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Carlotta Patti
3)
Composer(s): Ritter
Participants:  Carlotta Patti
4)
aka Laughing song; Eclat de rire
Composer(s): Auber
Participants:  Carlotta Patti
5)
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Théodore Ritter
6)
Composer(s): Ritter
Participants:  Théodore Ritter
7)
aka Poacher's song
Composer(s): Ritter
Participants:  Théodore Ritter
8)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Frantz Jehin-Prume

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 September 1869, 9.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 September 1869, 9.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 September 1869, 12.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 27 September 1869, 7.

Merely lists dates of all Patti concerts.

5)
Review: New York Herald, 28 September 1869, 3.

“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.”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 28 September 1869, 5.

“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.”

7)
Review: New York Post, 28 September 1869, 4.

“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.”