Amateur Philharmonic Society of New York Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
De Garmo Hall

Conductor(s):
Johann Heinrich Bonawitz

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 June 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Apr 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Amateur Philharmonic Society of New York;  Pauline Nininger
2)
Symphony, no. 2, op. 36, D major
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Cosi fan tutte, overture
Composer(s): Mozart
4)
Pikovaya dama, overture
aka Pique dame; Queen of spades
Composer(s): Tchaikovsky
5)
Tannhäuser, selection
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Semiramide, aria
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Pauline Nininger
7)
Fantasia on Bellini's La Sonnambula
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 April 1872, 2.

First concert of the society, which has been in existence for more than five years.

2)
Review: New York Post, 29 April 1872, 2.

“The Amateur Philharmonic Society of New York gave their first public concert on Saturday evening at De Garmo Hall on Fifth avenue, only complimentary tickets being issued. They number about twenty-five members, and are conducted by Mr. John Henry Bonawitz. The programme embraced [see above]. The orchestra showed very careful training, and especially in the symphony their rendering was marked by great delicacy and expression. Their solo players are remarkably proficient, a fantasia from ‘Sonnambula’ on the flute being perhaps the most successful effort of the evening in this line. Miss Nininger was warmly encored. It is to be hoped that the society will before long allow themselves to be heard in a hall better adapted to the purpose.”