Grand Orchestral and Vocal Concert
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Conductor(s):
Robert Goldbeck
Price: $1 (subscribers are entitled to choice of reserved seats; subscribers to four tickets are entitled to boxes)
Event Type:
Orchestral
Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 November 2013
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
19 May 1863, 8:00 PMProgram Details
75 person orchestra
Performers and/or Works Performed
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4)
aka Leonore overture, no. 3;
Leonora overture, no. 3
Composer(s): Beethoven
Citations
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Victoria “will be performed for the second time.”
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“[Victoria] was produced with success at Irving Hall a few weeks since [See March, 1863]. . . . Gen. Wool and Staff, who have promised to attend.”
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“So enterprising a thing as a concert on such a scale, for the purpose of presenting in the only way it can now be heard, new American music—as our Societies are devoted to the distant and the dead—ought to meet with an adequately liberal response from the public.”
10)
“[P]romises much enjoyment to those who take pleasure in hearing the performances of a large and well-balanced orchestra. The original works of this young composer will then be heard to good advantage. . . . Holders of subscribers’ tickets can exchange them for secured seats.”
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Time, program. “And a powerful orchestra of seventy-five performers, under the direction of ROBERT GOLDBECK.”
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“Mr. Goldbeck’s concert . . . will be one of superior attractiveness. It opens with his ‘Idylic’ and ‘Scene de Chasses,’ perhaps the most pleasing of his works, in which the piano will be played by Mr. Mills. The main piece of the evening will be Goldbeck’s ‘Victoria’ Symphony for an orchestra of seventy-five performers. Mr. Mills will play a fantasia by Liszt, and Mr. Theodore Thomas will give Schubert’s ‘Tarantelle’ for the violin. Madame Johannsen sings two songs, and the orchestra will bring the concert to a close with the ‘Leonore’ overture No. 3 of Beethoven.”