Hampton Institute Students Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $.50; $.25 extra for reserved seat

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Mar 1873, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Hampton Institute Students

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 March 1873, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 March 1873, 8.

“They sing many of the peculiar slave-songs, as well as pieces of a higher character. The Hampton Institute was founded for the purpose of fitting colored people for teachers of their own race, and the buildings are so much too small for the number of students that many of the pupils are spending the Winter in tents or temporary wooden barracks.” 

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 March 1873, 4.

“Specimens of the ‘old-time melodies’ of the colored race are, with pieces of a higher character, to make up the programme.” 

4)
Review: New-York Times, 08 March 1873, 7.

“The nineteen students in question have admirable voices, and they use them, not with a skill calling for criticism, but with sufficient art to give a very fascinating coloring to the eccentric negro melodies selected for recital. Twelve pieces, almost all of that kind, were sung, and several of them were repeated.”