Frédéric Louis Ritter Lectures on the History of Music: 2nd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Young Men's Christian Association Hall

Price: $.50 per lecture; $2 “for the course” (of five lectures)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 January 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Apr 1870, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Music in Gotham assumes the venue and time based on the first and third lectures, as the citations for this event do not provide that information. Topic: “The old Flemish, German, English, Italian and Spanish schools (the great epoch of Catholic church Music and the madrigal), from the latter part of the Fourteenth Century to the death of Palestrina, 1591.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Frédéric Louis Ritter

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 05 April 1870, 2.

Provides information for the first lecture. “The second lecture will be delivered next Saturday evening, and will discuss the old Flemish, German, English, Italian and Spanish schools (the great epoch of Catholic church Music and the madrigal), from the latter part of the Fourteenth Century to the death of Palestrina, 1591.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 April 1870, 8.

At the conclusion of a review of the first lecture in this series. “The second lecture of the course will be given on Saturday evening, and will cover the period of Catholic Church music and the madrigal.”