Mrs. Jarley’s Wax-Works

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 April 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 May 1870, Evening

Program Details

To benefit the Sheltering Arms.

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 May 1870, 7.
2)
Review: New-York Times, 04 May 1870, 4.

“…Music was furnished by an itinerant organ-grinder and an Italian fiddler. The whole performance was decidedly amusing. The figures in the different history, horrors and beauty and the classical chamber, were wound up in turn and went through their parts with great solemnity and vast mechanical precision…”

3)
Review: New York Post, 04 May 1870, 2.

No mention of music.