Event Information
Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 July 2022
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 Aug 1870, All Day
31 Aug 1870, All Day
01 Sep 1870, All Day
Program Details
The organization was formed last year in Boston under the leadership of Eben Tourjée. Thursday: visit to St. George’s Church for an organ concert.
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Moonlight;
Quasi una fantasia
Composer(s): Beethoven
4)
aka Mendelssohn's Wedding march;
Fantasie on Midsummer night's dream
Composer(s): Liszt
7)
aka Harmonious blacksmith;
Harmonische Grobschmied;
Forgeron harmonieux
Composer(s): Handel
8)
aka Guglielmo Tell;
William Tell;
Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
Citations
1)
Announcement: Dwight's Journal of Music, 27 August 1870, 302-03.
Programme of exercises for the three days; includes names of speakers and titles of their papers. To be “interspersed by vocal and instrumental music of a high order by leading artists.”
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 29 August 1870, 4.
3)
Article: New York Post, 30 August 1870, 4.
4)
Article: New York Post, 31 August 1870, 4.
5)
Article: New York Post, 01 September 1870, 4.
6)
Article: New York Clipper, 10 September 1870, 182.
Brief report on the congress; election of officers.
7)
Article: Dwight's Journal of Music, 10 September 1870, 309-10.
First day, Aug. 30th. Papers by Messrs. Henry C. Watson, L. H. Southard, and James Pech. Second day, August 31st. Papers by Messrs. T. F. Seward, S. D. Tillman, C, Petersilea, and J. O’Neill. Third day, September 1. Papers by S. A. Emery, John P. Morgan, and others—resolutions and officers (Reprinted from NYTr, no date cited)