Irish Diamonds Lecture and Songs

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $.75 reserved; $.50

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 June 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 May 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Jennie [vocalist] Hughes;  S. B. Whiteley;  Josephine Schimpf
2)
Irish songs
aka Irish melodies; Popular, national, and Irish airs; Hibernian songs
Participants:  Jennie [vocalist] Hughes;  Josephine Schimpf

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 May 1870, 9.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 May 1870, 5.

“Mr. Charles W. Brooke, one of the best dramatic readers that has appeared before the New York public for many years, will deliver one of his best lectures, ‘Irish Diamonds,’ at Steinway Hall, this evening. Mme. O’Connell Schimpf and Miss Jennie L. Hughes will illustrate the lecture with some choice Irish songs, and Mr. S. B. Whitely [sic] will be the pianist on the occasion.”