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:
5 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Jan 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

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

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 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., 10 January 1873.

“Philharmonic rehearsal. Ellie, Lucy [Derby], Miss Maud Howe & Temple in our box. That ‘Hirtengesang’ is a deplorable composition, appropriate only to a most sorrowful shepherd—an imbecile & insolvent shepherd, who has mislaid his crook & his tar-box & his breeches.”