Ball in Aid of the New York Infant Asylum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Price: $5

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Jan 1873, 10:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band
2)
Infant asylum march
Composer(s): Unknown composer
3)
Conte d’Essex, Il, overture
Composer(s): Mercadante
4)
Luisa Miller, selection
Composer(s): Verdi
5)
March, unidentified
Composer(s): Grafulla

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 12 January 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 January 1873, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 January 1873, 5.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 January 1873, 5.
5)
Review: New-York Times, 17 January 1873, 5.

“The music, furnished by Grafulla, with two bands, one for dance and the other for promenade music, gave great satisfaction, and the programme of dancing was certainly one of the most varied and agreeable on record.” 

6)
Review: New York Sun, 17 January 1873, 1.

“Grafulla’s full band of seventy-five pieces was in attendance, and at 10:07 P. M., at a signal from Mr. Scott, the leader, the band pealed forth the ‘Infant Asylum March.”

7)
Review: New York Post, 17 January 1873, 1.

No mention of music. 

8)
Review: New York Herald, 17 January 1873, 7.

Includes a list of the twenty-four dances.