Ladies of Sorosis: New Member Event

Event Information

Venue(s):
Delmonico’s

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 January 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Apr 1870, Evening

Program Details

Clara Brinkerhoff “sang admirably a selection of classical music,” none of which is identified by title in the sole citation. The venue is identified as “Ladies of Sorosis Rooms,” but the club’s regular meeting venue was Delmonico’s.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Clara M. Brinkerhoff
2)
"New Year hymn"
Composer(s): Brinkerhoff

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 April 1870, 5.

“…The report of the Executive Committee shows in the list of Sorosis 39 women engaged in literature, 6 editors, 12 poets, 5 musical artists, 25 authors, 2 physicians… The aim of Sorosis this year is to utilize this material as much as possible for the object of personal cultivation as well as entertainment…

“A New-Year hymn, by Miss Pollard, was sung, adapted to music by Mme. Clara Brinkerhoff. ‘In spite of the resolution excluding men from the Society,’ says a humorous member, ‘we are only too glad to have one male name represented. A Weber is always present.’ Not the manufacturer himself. ‘Two-hundred and five-per-cent,’ as his friends call him, but a fine piano, sent to the Society’s rooms by the favor of that gentleman.

“Mrs. Bogert read a poem by Alice Gill, and Mme. Brinkerhoff sang admirably a selection of classical music.”