Light Guard Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $2 (a gentleman and ladies)

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Feb 1863, Evening

Program Details

R: NYP 02/13/63, p.2 says there were two bands, one for dancing and a brass band for the promenade.

There are several interesting elements to this program. Two pieces are based on minstrel works (“Raw recruits” and “Black brigade”). Several pieces are related to the war. And there are ten pieces by Dodworth or Downing.

Fourteen pieces in all are performed for the “first time.” They include:
Kochkeller: March, “Academy” (1st time)
Bilse: March, “Grand Triumph” (1st time)
Downing: March, “71st Regiment Quickstep” (1st time)
Dodworth: March, “Central Park” (1st time)
Downing: March “McClellan's Quickstep” (1st time)
Verdi: March, “Un Ballo Maschera” (1st time)
Downing: March, “General Burnside” (1st time)
D. Lorenz: March, “Irish Brigade” (1st time)
Donizetti: March, “Vivandiere Quick Step” (1st time)
Foster: March, “Gay and Happy” (1st time)
Downing: March, “The Adieu” (1st time)
Emmett: March, “Black Brigade” (1st time)
[Henry] Russell: March, “Cheer, Boys, Cheer” (1st time)
Downing: March, “La Skedaddle” (1st time)

Program as advertised:
Opening, “National Melodies”
Overture, Herzog: Hamburg Wallhalle
Kochkeller: March, “Academy” (1st time)
1. Bosisio: Quadrille, “Il Giuramento” (Mercadante)
Verdi: March, Sicilian Vespers
2. Unknown: “American” Lancers
Bartholomews: March, “Prussian”
3.[Labitzky] Labitsky: Polka and Galop, “Juliet”
[Albert, Charles Louis Napoléon d'] D'Albert: March, “War Galop”
4. Johann Strauss I: Quadrille, “Mode”
Bilse: March, “Grand Triumph” (1st time)
5. Kuhner: Redowa, “Spring Song”
Downing: March, “71st Regiment Quickstep” (1st time)
6. Dodworth: Quadrille: “Arline”
Dodworth: March, “Central Park” (1st time)
7. Ascher: Polka, Redowa, and Schottische, “Merry Sleigh Bells”
G.W. Morgan: March, “Light Guard”
8. Weingarten: Lancers, “Union”
Downing: March “McClellan's Quickstep” (1st time)
9. [Peter] Hertel: Galop, “Flick Flock”
Verdi: March, “Un Ballo Maschera” (1st time)
10. Dodworth: Quadrille, “Gems from the German”
C. Wels: March: “Josephine Galop”
11. [Weissenborn] Weisenborn: Redowa and Polka, “Parting”
Downing: March, “General Burnside” (1st time)
12. Meyerbeer: Quadrille, “Dinorah”
Mercadante: March, “Il Guiramento”
13. [Christian] Koppitz: Polka Redowa, “Tiger Leap”
D. Lorenz: March, “Irish Brigade” (1st time)
14. Lancers, “The Irving”
Strauss: March, “The Coronation”
15. Dodworth: Quadrille, “Raw Recruits”
Donizetti: March, “Vivandiere Quick Step” (1st time)
16. Pilodu: Varsovienne and Esmeralda, “L'Elite”
[Composer] Foster: March, “Gay and Happy” (1st time)
17. Weingarten: Lancers, “Clarendon”
Downing: March, “The Adieu” (1st time)
18. H. Sanderson: Schottische and Galop
Emmett: March, “Black Brigade” (1st time)
19. Strauss: Quadrille, “Satanella”
[Henry] Russell: March, “Cheer, Boys, Cheer” (1st time)
20. Lanner: Redowa, “Romantic”
Herzog: March, “Louis d'Or” (polka)
21. [Philippe] Musard: Quadrille, “Genevieve d'Brabant”
Donizetti: March, “Il Poliuto”
22. Weingarten: Lancers “Saratoga”
Strauss: March, “Liberty”
23. [Grisar] Geissar: Polka Redowa, “Les Porcherons”
Strauss: March, “Camp Quickstep”
24. Weingarten: Polka and Galop, “Monitor”
Downing: March, “La Skedaddle” (1st time)
25. Dodworth: Quadrille: “Stag Set”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dodworth Band
2)
American national airs
aka National melodies; National medley; national songs; National airs
3)
Hamburg Wallhalle, overture
Composer(s): Herzog
4)
Academy
aka Academy march; Academy promenade
Composer(s): Kochkeller
5)
Quadrille sur l'opera Il Giuramento de Mercadante
aka Giuramento quadrille
Composer(s): Bosisio [composer]
6)
Vêpres siciliennes, Les, march
aka Vepres; I Vespri siciliani; Sicilian vespers, The
Composer(s): Verdi
7)
"American lancers"
Composer(s): Freeman
8)
"Prussian"
Composer(s): Bartholomäus
9)
Juliet polka and galop
Composer(s): Labitzky
10)
"War galop, The"
Composer(s): Albert [composer]
11)
Mode-Quadrille, op. 138
aka "La mode" quadrille; La mode
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Siegesmarsch
aka Victory; March of victory; Friedrich Carl Siegesmarsch; Grand triumph
Composer(s): Bilse
13)
Frühlingslieder
aka Spring song; Fruhlingsklange; Fruhlingslieder
Composer(s): Kühner
14)
Seventy-First Regiment
aka 71st regiment promenade; Seventy-first regiment quickstep
Composer(s): Downing
15)
Arline quadrille
Composer(s): Dodworth
16)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
17)
"Grelots, Les"
aka Merry sleigh bells; Sleigh bells
Composer(s): Ascher [comp.]
18)
"Light guard [march]"
Composer(s): Morgan
19)
Union
Composer(s): Weingarten
20)
McClellan's quickstep
Composer(s): Downing
21)
Flick und flock
aka Feuerwehr-Galopp; Flick flock; Flick and flock; Flick et flock; Au feu!
Composer(s): Hertel
22)
Ballo in maschera, Un, march
Composer(s): Verdi
23)
Gems from the German
aka Gems of German song
Composer(s): Dodworth
24)
Josephine galop
Composer(s): Wels
25)
"Parting"
aka Redowa and polka, "Parting"; Scheiden (Parting) waltz
Composer(s): Weissenborn
26)
"General Burnside march"
Composer(s): Downing
27)
Dinorah, op. 224
Composer(s): Strauss
28)
Giuramento, Il, march
aka Quickstep
Composer(s): Mercadante
29)
"Tiger leap"
30)
"Irish brigade [march]"
Composer(s): Lorenz
31)
Irving
Composer(s): Dodworth
32)
Krönungs-Marsch, op. 183
aka Coronation March; Kronungs-Marsch
Composer(s): Strauss
33)
Raw recruits (Quadrille)
34)
Fille du régiment, La, "Vivandiere"
aka Vivandiere promenade; Daughter of the Regiment, The ; Figlia del reggimento, La; Child of the Regiment, The; Regimentstochter, Die
Composer(s): Donizetti
35)
Varsovienne and esmeralda, L'élite
Composer(s): Pilodu
36)
Gay and happy
Composer(s): Dodworth
37)
Clarendon
Composer(s): Weingarten
38)
Adieu, The
aka Adieu; Adieu march; Adieu promenade
Composer(s): Downing
39)
Schottische and galop
Composer(s): Sanderson
40)
"Black brigade [march]"
aka Black brigade march
Composer(s): Emmett
41)
Satanella, op. 123
Composer(s): Strauss
42)
"Cheer, boys, cheer [Russell]"
aka Southern cheer boys; Southern boys, The
Composer(s): Russell
Text Author: Mackay
43)
Romantiker, Die, op. 167
Composer(s): Lanner
44)
Louis d'or
Composer(s): Herzog
45)
"Geneviève d'Brabant"
aka Genevieve d'Brabant
Composer(s): Musard
46)
Poliuto, march
Composer(s): Donizetti
47)
"Saratoga [lancers]"
Composer(s): Weingarten
48)
Freiheits-Marsch, op. 226
aka Liberty march
Composer(s): Strauss
49)
Polka redowa on Grisar's Les Porcherons
Text Author: Unknown playwright
50)
Camp, The
aka Camp quickstep; Camp quick step
Composer(s): Strauss
51)
Monitor
aka Monitor; Monitor polka and galop
Composer(s): Weingarten
52)
Skedaddle, La
Composer(s): Downing
53)
Stag set
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 01 February 1863, 8.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 February 1863, 7.
“Dodworth’s Mammoth Bands.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 February 1863, 7.
Several small ads. “Dodworth’s mammoth Bands.”
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 February 1863, 5.
“[T]he Light Guard Ball – familiarly known as the Tiger Ball . . . That it will be the most brilliant affair of the season; that women who are all fair, and men who are all brave, will mingle as in poetry, and make the hours extatic [sic]; that the music will drop like blessed balsam on the stiffened limbs of aged beaux, compelling them to dance again . . . that the Ball, in a word, will be up to the standard of past years, and perhaps taller, is beyond reasonable doubt, or rational peradventure.”
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 February 1863, 7.
Full program.
6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 February 1863, 2.
“The Academy has been newly and handsomely decorated, and orchestras of extra magnitude have been engaged.”
7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 February 1863, 7.

8)
Review: New York Post, 13 February 1863, 2.
“The Academy of Music was never more completely filled than last night on the occasion of the annual ball given by the members of the Light Guard (Seventy-first regiment); and never did the admirers of the ‘light fantastic’ (although usually not ever-fond of a crush), enjoy themselves more thoroughly. The music of the cotillion band (for dancing), which was stationed at the left of the first tier, and that of the regimental brass band (for promenade), on the right of the second tier in the galleries, was excellent and inspiring. . . . . . . The numerous canary birds in cages hung around the balcony lent their piping songs to the music of the bands.”
9)
Review: New-York Times, 13 February 1863, 8.

“The Light Guard Ball.

            In spite of the unfavorable weather of yesterday, the Light Guard Ball, which was held last night at the Academy of Music, was attended by a very large number of ladies and gentlemen. The decorations of the room were chaste and elegant. At the east end, suspended from an American shield, were the colors of the company, entwined with the war-flag of the Seventy-first Regiment. Below, in gas-jets, occupying the centre [sic] of the stage, was an uplifted arm wielding a battle-axe, and beneath this a scroll, with the words, ‘Light Guard;’ and again another, containing the figures 1827. Under this design was placed a brass field piece, with pyramids of shot on either side, and stacks of muskets, surmounted with the bear-skin cap of the ‘Tigers.’ Suspended from the first tier were light wire cages with canary birds, who chattered away at each other like as many well-behaved idiots. Reaching to the dome from all parts of the ceiling were red, white and blue streamers. The order of dancing comprised twenty-five selections, and an equal number of marches, the music being performed by Dodworth’s Brass Band.”

10)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 14 February 1863, 3.
“The ball was a complete success.”