Beethoven Männerchor: Cornerstone Ceremony Festival Commemoration

Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 October 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jun 1870, Evening

Program Details

See also related event entry of 06/27/70: Beethoven Männerchor: Cornerstone Ceremony for New Hall.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Beethoven Männerchor;  Mollenhauer's Orchestra

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 June 1870, 2.

Brief. Part of larger announcement for the cornerstone ceremony, which was scheduled to take place in the afternoon. “After the ceremonies there will be a festival, to commemorate the event, held at Terrace Garden.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 June 1870, 7.

“The Beethoven Mannerchor will lay the corner-stone of their new hall…After the ceremony, music, songs and dancing at the Terrace Garden.”

3)
Review: New-York Times, 28 June 1870, 1.

At the close of the cornerstone laying ceremony, “the Society proceeded to the Terrace Garden…where a Summer night’s festival was held, which was spoiled, however, as far as members are concerned, to some degree, by the thunder-storm which occurred toward evening. The evening entertainment consisted of music performed by Mollenhauer’s Band, several choruses sung by the Beethoven Maennerchor, and dancing. The whole festival was a complete success throughout. The Society intends to have their hall erected in time for the celebration of the centenary of Ludwig von Beethoven, on December 17 next, on which occasion they will perform the opera ‘Fidelio,’ and the oratorio, ‘Christ on the Mount of Olives,’ both by Beethoven.”