Philharmonic Society of New York Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jan 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York
2)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber
3)
Christus, "Hirtengesang an der Krippe"
aka Song of the shepherds at the manger
Composer(s): Liszt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 January 1873, 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., 03 January 1873.

“Philharmonic rehearsal—Ellie, Lucy [Derby] & the three boys. Overture to Oberon came out magnificently. Beethoven himself could not have written that particular thing. The other two orchestral works are small beer in my judgment. At the directors’ meeting, after the rehearsal, we considered the expediency of suppressing that miserable, long-winded ‘Hirtengesang’ by Liszt, & reluctantly decided that we could not drop it after it had been produced at a public rehearsal. Its laborious inanity is exasperating. Souvenirs occur in it of the Pastorale in the Messiah, The Notturno in the Midsummer Night’s Dream, & that delectable melody of the ‘Carnival of Venice.’ Its production is a disgrace to the society.”