Mac Evoy’s Pictorial and Musical Exhibition
Event Information
Venue(s):
Hope Chapel
Manager / Director:
Charles Mac Evoy
Price: $.25 (children .15)
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
24 September 2013
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
23 Mar 1863, 8:00 PM24 Mar 1863, 8:00 PM
25 Mar 1863, 8:00 PM
26 Mar 1863, 2:00 PM
26 Mar 1863, 8:00 PM
27 Mar 1863, 8:00 PM
28 Mar 1863, 2:00 PM
28 Mar 1863, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Mac Evoy, Unidentified: "young Mac Evoy, pf".
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
2)
aka Irish melodies;
Popular, national, and Irish airs;
Hibernian songs
Participants: Kate Mac Evoy
Citations
1)
“The paintings are accompanied by vocal and instrumental music. The vocal illustrations are selected from the immortal Irish Melodies and will be sung Erin’s gifted child of song, Miss Kate Mac Evoy, accompanied on Brown’s grand action harp by her sister, Miss Marie. Master Spaulding Mac Evoy will appear as Barney the Guide, and will sing several comic Irish songs and duets.”
3)
“The MacEvoys are from Erin, and bring with them to this country a really beautiful series of panoramic paintings representing the chief natural and architectural features of their native land. MacEvoy pére explains these paintings in an intensely Hibernian lecture much of which is intelligible only to recent comers from ‘County Tip’ or other portions of the downtrodden isle. MacEvoy pére is so thoroughly permeated with the wrongs of his country that his patriotism is constantly exuding, as it were, from him, and finding expression in belligerent phrases or in disquisitions on Ireland’s past and future glory. The felicitous reminisces of ‘one residence in Dublin’ add a unique charm to the professor’s extremely national remarks.
[Spalding MacEvoy], as Barney the guide, is the next important figure. He is a boy who sings Irish songs with a great deal of spirit and effect, which shows that he has a fair share of genuine Irish humor. There is also another MacEvoy youth, who plays the piano admirably—much better than is usually heard at panoramic entertainments.
Last, and not by any means least, come the three Misses MacEvoy. One of them touches the harp with musical skill and taste, and possesses a rich contralto voice, while another, the soprano of the company, sings Irish ballads sweetly, but allows evident lack of vocal cultivation. The third Miss MacEvoy, who appears so charming as Widow Machree should sing more than the one song allotted to her in the programme.”