Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
27 Oct 1872, 8:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Introduction
Composer(s): HeÌrold
3)
aka Romanza
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
4)
aka Romanza
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
7)
aka Daughter of the Regiment, The ;
Figlia del reggimento, La;
Child of the Regiment, The;
Regimentstochter, Die
Composer(s): Donizetti
8)
aka Morgenblatter;
Melodische Depeschen;
Morning flowers
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
aka Serenade;
O come to the window
Composer(s): Mozart
12)
aka Letzte Rose
Composer(s): Traditional
13)
Composer(s): Donizetti
15)
aka Introduction and chorus to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
Citations
1)
Announcement: New York Post, 26 October 1872, 2.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 October 1872, 2.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 30 October 1872, 7.
“Popular concerts and classical music never went well together; but the stillness which reigned at the Grand Opera House on Sunday evening while Signor Padovanni was playing ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ and other commonplaces showed a most perverse disposition on the part of unmusical people to be pleased with what musical people condemn.”