Sheltering Arms’ Vocal and Instrumental Benefit Concert

Article describing the mission and building of the Sheltering Arms. (No mention of music.)

This concert preceded the inauguration of “the Bazaar, which will open on the following day, at 2 P. M., at the Thirty-seventh [sic] Regiment Armory.”

"A concert of unusual excellence is to be given this evening at the Academy of Music, in aid of that most praiseworthy charity, the ‘Sheltering Arms,’ an asylum for crippled, incurable, and destitute children. Surely, if anything could appeal strongly to the sensibilities and sympathies of the compassionate, it is such an object as this. [Lists performers.] [They] will insure [sic] a more than usually fine concert.”

“The most noticeable of coming concerts is that to be given next Monday night at the Academy of Music, for the benefit of the ‘Sheltering Arms.’ List of vocalists includes Miss Kellogg, Miss Sterling, Mr. Candidus, Mr. Remmertz, and the Arion Society. Miss Mehlig and Mr. Mills will be the pianists, and Senor Sarasate, of the Patti troupe, the solo violinist. Besides all these attractions, the Philharmonic Society, under the direction of Carl Bergmann, will lend its aid. Such a concert as this is seldom given in this or any city; and as it is moreover for the benefit of a most worthy charity, it appeals with double force to the musical community.”

Only citation with program. Lists “Philharmonic Orchestra” amongst performers and does not suggest it is reduced in size. Notes that the “grand pianos used on this occasion are from the celebrated manufactory of A. Weber, New-York.”

“On Monday the eager world of fashion will divide itself between the Academy of Music, where nearly all the most popular artists now within reach—Miss Kellogg, for instance, Miss Mehlig, Mr. Mills, Miss Sterling, Mr. Werner, and Señor Sarasate—with the Arion Society and the Philharmonic orchestra [sic], are to appear for the benefit of the Sheltering Arms Asylum; and the Union League Theater, where all the fortunate people who can buy or borrow good clothes are going to the full dress performance of ‘Maria di Rohan’ by Signor Ronconi, with the assistance of Mrs. Gulager and other amateurs.”

“The concert that is to be given at the Academy of Music is for the benefit of one of our noblest charities, the Asylum of the Sheltering Arms, for sick and crippled children. The programme is one of unusual excellence, combining an amount and variety of talent and an admirable selection of music, such as is rarely offered in America. The orchestra of the Philharmonic Society, the chorus of the Arion, Miss Anna Mehlig, Mr. S. B. Mills, Signor Sarasate, and others, instrumental soloists, and Miss Kellogg and other favorites as vocalist appear together on one platform. We trust that the result will be not only a rich musical festival for a crowded house, but a substantial contribution to the permanent efficiency of the asylum.”

“The very worthy charity known as the Sheltering Arms, is likely to find its funds considerably augmented ere the fortnight ends. To-morrow it will benefit by a grand concert at the Academy of Music, and Thursday evening and Tuesday week [sic] by two amateur dramatic entertainments at the Union League Club Theater. [Lists participants.]”

“A grand concert will be given at the Academy of Music this evening for the benefit of the Sheltering Arms.”

At the close of the review of the Steinway Hall Popular Concert on 04/17/70: “Miss Mehlig and Mr. Mills repeat the duet [Hexameron] at the concert at the Academy of Music tonight, and we hope for the sake of their hearers that they will be as full of spirit as they were last evening [reference to event entry of 04/17/70: Steinway Hall Popular Concert: 1st].”

“The concert by which the Sheltering Arms benefits takes place at the Academy to-night. The programme—a magnificent one—invites perusal, and is printed in full elsewhere.”

Brief.

“There are several musical performances to be given the present week of much more than ordinary excellence.

“Foremost in the amont of talent enlisted, as well as in the object to be attained, is doubtless the concert to be given at the Academy of Music this evening in aid of the asylum for poor, incurable, crippled, and destitute children, known as ‘The Sheltering Arms.’ [Lists performers.] No one needs further assurance that the concert must necessarily be one of the best of the season.”

Includes program.

“It would be difficult to match this concert in artistic merit, and as a pecuniary success it was indisputable. The programme had on it the names of Miss Kellogg, Miss Sterling, Miss Anne [sic] Mehlig and the unapproachable Mills, Sarasate, the great violinist, the picked members of the Philharmonic Society and a superb chorus. Miss Kellogg sang divinely in her usual clear, sympathetic, light soprano style. The Philharmonic Society, Miss Kellogg and Miss Sterling were the principal soloists. We have rarely heard Miss Kellogg sing better. The Philharmonic orchestra and a large and efficient chorus from the Berge Choral Union appeared at both services.” (Unclear what is meant by “both services,” as only one concert is ever advertised.)

“The concert in the Academy of Music last evening, in aid of the Sheltering Arms, was a great success. Miss Kellogg, Miss Mehlig, and Messrs. Mills, Remmertz, Candidus, and Savasti [sic] sang solos, and the Philharmonic Society and the Arion did the chorusing.”