Musical Soirée: 2nd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Chickering's Rooms

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 August 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Apr 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Weber Quartet;  A. Randolfi;  Jennie [mezzo-soprano] Bull;  William H. [baritone] Beckett;  Charles [tenor] Fritsch;  Marie Krebs;  William J. [tenor] Hill;  James W. [violin] Pirsson;  Antoinette Sterling;  Henrietta Beebe
2)
Faust, "Je ris de me voir si belle"
aka Jewel song; Air de bijoux; O Dieu! Que de bijoux
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Henrietta Beebe

Citations

1)
Review: New York Post, 18 April 1871, 4.

“A brilliant audience filled Chickering’s Hall last evening, on the occasion of Miss Henrietta Beebe’s second Soirée Musicale. The artiste was in good voice, and sang her numbers with her usual care and good taste. She was assisted by Miss Jennie Bull, always a pleasing contralto; by Mr. Fritsch, and excellent tenor, and by the Weber Quartet, which did itself great credit.

Miss Beebe is an artiste who is growing rapidly in public favor, and her warm reception last evening was but one of the evidences of it.”

2)
Review: New-York Times, 21 April 1871, 5.

“Miss Heniretta Beebe, a young artist whose merit is quite in excess of that possessed by singers more frequently heard in the concert-room, gave the second of two very successful musical soirees at Chickering Hall, on Monday evening. Miss Beebe sang the jewel song from ‘Faust’ and the air from ‘Roberto,’ and repetitions of both pieces were exacted. The performers assisting her were Messrs. Fritsch, Beckett, Hill, Randolfi and Pirsson, and Misses Antoinette Sterling, Krebs and Bull.”