Deutscher Liederkranz Sommernachtsfest
Event Information
Venue(s):
Terrace Garden
Price: $3 for one gentleman and one lady; $1 extra ladies’ tickets
Event Type:
Choral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
29 December 2024
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
06 Sep 1873, 8:00 PMPerformers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“With that admirable obstinacy and dogged disregard for petty obstacles which characterizes the ordinary Teuton when he has ‘made up his mind,’ as the saying is, the German Liederkranz announces a ‘Summer Night’s Festival,’ to occur at Terrace Garden, on the corner of Fifty-eighth street and Third avenue, on Saturday evening next, September 6. There will be music, orchestral and vocal, including, doubtless, some of those grand German choruses sung by men’s voices, and there will probably be lager.
To commend the affair to the attention of our musical public would be unnecessary, further than to note its promised occurrence, suggesting as it does adequate interpretation of composers from Meyerbeer to Faust.”
“Admission for non-members, only if introduced by a member.” States price is “$2 for one gentleman and one lady,” which contradicts the rate of $3 for the same advertised in the New York Herald.
“The Liederkranz Society last evening held one of their pleasant summer festivals…These summer reunions, partly indoors and partly without, are among the pleasantest festivities of the summer season, and are attended not only by the élite of the German population, but also by a large number of Americans. In spite of a low price of admission last night the society was most select, and what with the excellent orchestra of the Society and the choir—than which there is none better—the evening passed away on wings, as it were. The oceans of lager and the seas of Rhine wine which were drunk without an unpleasant word being spoken, were quite a commentary on native reunions of the kind. The ladies, of whom many were very beautiful, kept up the dance without cessation, and went on with a gusto for those pleasant Strauss waltzes and quadrilles without which all balls are nowadays vain shows, without meaning. Much, no doubt, of the decorum which was observed, was due to the excellent committee arrangements. A select body of men stood at the door like so many Oerberi, ready to forbid entrance to all suspected parties. In this manner, and amid a buzz of voices and languages which would have done credit to the Tower of Babel, the night passed on.”