Recitation by Gertrude Kellogg; Benefit of the Gospel Chapel

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 July 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Jan 1870, Evening

Program Details

Musical intermezzi by Frederick Fielding, organist.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Frederick [organist] Fielding
2)
Martha, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
3)
Trovatore, Il, selections
aka Poptpourri from Il Trovatore
Composer(s): Verdi
4)
Faust, selections
aka Grand Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
5)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, "Hochzeitsmarsch"
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
Review: New York Herald, 01 February 1870, 10.

“ … and the music furnished by Mr. F. Fielding, which included some very popular operatic selections, considerably enhanced the pleasure of the evening.” 

2)
Review: New-York Times, 01 February 1870, 5.

“Musical intermezzi to the entertainment, which had abundant marks of approval, were supplied by the organ performance of Mr. Frederick Fielding.”

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 01 February 1870, 5.

“The performance began with the overture to ‘Martha,’ which was extorted from a rather reluctant organ, by Mr. Frederick Fielding.” “Mr. Fielding played selections from ‘Trovatore,’ and ‘Faust,’ and Mendelssohn’s ‘Wedding March.’”