Ballad Concert: 5th: Chicago Fire Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Manager / Director:
George Dolby

Price: $1; $.50 & $1 extra, reserved seat

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 October 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Oct 1871, 8:00 PM

Program Details

See also separate event entry of 10/13/71: Articles on benefit entertainments for victims of the Chicago fire.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dolby English Ballad Troupe;  Edith Wynne;  Mme. Patey;  W. H. [tenor] Cummings;  Charles Santley;  J. G. Patey;  Lindsay Sloper
2)
Acis and Galatea, "O ruddier than the cherry"
Composer(s): Handel
Participants:  Charles Santley
3)
"Vallon, Le"
aka Valley, The
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Charles Santley
4)
"Vagabond, The"
Composer(s): Molloy
Participants:  Charles Santley

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 October 1871, 7.

Proceeds to be donated to the fund for victims of the Chicago fire, all members of the company having agreed to donate their services.

2)
Review: New-York Times, 19 October 1871, 4.

“A special entertainment intended to aid the people of Chicago, brought back to Steinway Hall Mr. Dolby’s artists. A hearty welcome awaited them, and their conscientious and finished interpretation of a programme full of interest, but of less variety than might be asked, had cordial recognition. Mr. Santley sang ‘O, Ruddier than the Cherry,’ ‘The Valley,’ by Gounod, and Molloy’s ‘Vagabond,’ with his wonted earnestness and success.”