Charity Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla
J. M. Lander [cond.]

Price: $5

Event Type:
Band, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 August 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Feb 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band;  Lander's Band
2)
Euryanthe, overture
Composer(s): Weber
3)
Guillaume Tell, selections
aka potpourri; William Tell potpourri
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Fort Columbus
Composer(s): Wiegand
5)
Cavotius de la Seim
Composer(s): Sabatier
6)
"God save the Queen"
aka God save the King
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
"Red, white, and blue, The"
aka red white and blue
Composer(s): Unknown composer
8)
"Hail Columbia"
aka The President’s March
Composer(s): Phile
Text Author: Hopkinson
9)
Alpenhorn, Das, op. 18
Composer(s): Proch
10)
Vélocipède, La
aka Velocipede
Composer(s): Faust

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 01 February 1870, 5.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 February 1870, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 February 1870, 5.

“The music was of the first order. Lander led his orchestra of 60 pieces, and the veteran Grafulla, at the head of 40 of his best artists, conducted the music of his military bands; and these two magnificent choruses, like many-mouthed amoebeans, answered one to another the whole night long in strains of most delicious harmony.” Includes titles of some of the music performed at the time of Prince Arthur’s arrival.

4)
Review: New York Sun, 04 February 1870, 1.

“As the Prince stepped to the front, the band choked off a merry polka, and struck up ‘My Country ‘tis of Thee,’ followed by “The Red, White, and Blue.”’

5)
Review: New York Herald, 04 February 1870, 7.

Includes titles of some of the music performed.