Annual Charity Ball: 16th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla
J. M. Lander [cond.]

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 December 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Feb 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band;  Lander's Band
2)
Siège de Corinthe, Le, overture
aka Siege of Corinth; Siege of Erwith
Composer(s): Rossini
3)
Africaine, L', selections
aka Africaine potpourri
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
4)
Charity ball
Composer(s): Grafulla

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 January 1872, 7.
2)
Review: New York Post, 02 February 1872, 2.

No mention of music.

3)
Review: New-York Times, 02 February 1872, 5.

Mentions some of the music performed.

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 02 February 1872, 5.

“…dancing or promenading to the sound of excellent music.” “…the potent magic of Strauss’s waltzes.”