Carrie Goldsticker Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Apollo Hall

Price: $1

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 August 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Jun 1870, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The citations do not attribute the aria from Romeo and Juliet that Goldsticker sang, but Music in Gotham assumes it to be that by Gounod.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Carrie Goldsticker
3)
aka Flower song; Flower aria
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Carrie Goldsticker
4)
Composer(s): Mozart
5)
Composer(s): Weber

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 May 1870, 9.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 June 1870, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 02 June 1870, 5.

“Miss Carrie Goldsticker, a pupil, we believe of Mr. Carl Anschutz, gave a vocal and instrumental concert last evening at Apollo Hall. The room was comfortably filled, and Miss Ggldsticker’s [sic] singing afforded decided pleasure. The lady is young, evidently endowed with good musical ability, and gifted with a ringing soprano voice. Signor Lotti, Signor Randolfi, Signor Christiani, a pianist of fair executive skill, and Herren Richter and Weinlich assisted her, and Herr Anschutz presided at the piano.”

4)
Review: New York Post, 02 June 1870, 2.

“A concert of unusual excellence was given last evening at Apollo Hall by Miss Goldsticker, under the musical pilotage of the veteran artist, Mr. Anschutz. Fourteen pieces of German and Italian masters were performed vocally and instrumentally, with a completeness and finish in every way creditable to all the artists. Such a concert was a very appropriate and beautiful introduction to the leafy month of June, and all who heard it will treasure up its artistic aroma, as they will the perfume of this month’s flowers.

“Miss Goldsticker is young, handsome, modest and graceful. Her voice is sweet, mellow and flexible, and her method is unexceptionable. Her musical education has been too good to admit of any vocal sensationalism, but the oftener she is heard, the more public ear will be taught to appreciate her properly. In the Swiss song, the aria from ‘Romeo,’ and Siebel’s garden song from ‘Faust,’ the delicacy, sweetness and fertile flexibility of her voice were chastely and most admirably bodied forth.

“Of Lotti and Weinlich, so well known to the public, we scarcely need add anything, except that they sang up to their highest standard and were very acceptable to the audience. Signor Randolphi [sic] was in splendid voice, and sang with an earnestness and a fine sense of vocal requirement which elicited the heartiest applause. There is something so fresh, full and magnetic in his voice, that the ear is most sympathetically drawn to it.

“The piano was musically eloquent to the skilled fingers of Mr. Adolfo Christiani, and appealed most effectively to the cultivated, but his selections were of too high an order to meet the popular taste.

“Noll’s celebrated quintet, under the leadership of Mr. Anschutz, gave the overtures to ‘Oberon’ and ‘Figaro’ in the most perfect manner, and well deserved the applause which was so freely given.

“The pianoforte used on this occasion as the first grand piano built by Decker & Brothers, and received much praise for its brilliancy and power of tone.”