Philharmonic Society of New York Rehearsal for the 4th Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Feb 1871, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York
2)
Symphony, no. 3, op. 97, E-flat major
aka Rhenish symphony
Composer(s): Schumann
3)
Overture to Medea, op. 22
Composer(s): Bargiel
4)
Alladin
aka Aladdin
Composer(s): Reinecke

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 February 1871, 7.
2)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 17 February 1871.

“Philharmonic rehearsal this afternoon. Mrs. Gulager, Mrs. D’Oremieulx, Mrs. Thorndyke sat with us. There is vigor in Bargiel’s overture (Medea) & in the second movement of Schumann’s E-flat symphony, but it will be a second rate concert, though Miss Kellogg is to sing for us, & charge us $350.00 for the favor. I fear she is a somewhat rapacious young prima donna.”

3)
Review: New York Herald, 18 February 1871, 5.

“The lower part of the Academy was pretty well filled at the first rehearsal yesterday afternoon, but there were very few in the boxes. The two overtures are extremely difficult, and Bergmann will have considerable work in getting his orchestra to give a fair interpretation of them. The programme, in which the names of these works were printed, consisted, as usual, of a small strip of paper, on the back of which was a warning to those who enter the house during the actual performance of the music.”