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Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $1 reserved

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Nov 1873, Evening

Program Details

A presentation of readings by J. M. Bellew interspersed with music by the Seventh Regiment Band.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band
2)
"British grenadiers"
3)
White cockade [battlefield music]
4)
"St. Patrick's day"
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 31 October 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 November 1873, 2.

Lists readings programmed, to conclude with “An Original, National and Historical Poem, specially written for Mr. Bellew by W. J. Corbet, Esq., of Dublin, and accompanied with Military March and incidental music.”

3)
Announcement: New York Sun, 03 November 1873, 1.
4)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 November 1873, 2.

“The reading of Mr. Corbet’s ‘Fontenoy’ will be accompanied by appropriate military music.”

5)
Review: New York Post, 06 November 1873, 2.

Brief. The program included “the new poem of ‘Fontenoy,’ the interest of which is greatly enhanced by the appropriate music by the Seventh Regiment Band.”

6)
Review: New York Herald, 06 November 1873, 7.

“…Nothing can be finer than his [Bellew’s] recitation of the climax of the poem [W. J. Corbet’s historical poem “The Battle of Fontenoy”], the bloody meeting between the avenging Irish Brigade and the troops of the ‘Butcher of Culloden.’ In parts of the poem his reading was accompanied with music, or, in the words of the programme, with military march and incidental music, introducing, as they were actually played on the field of battle by the soldiers, the ‘British Grenadiers,’ the ‘White Cockade,’ ‘St. Patrick’s Day.’ The music was well rendered by the band of the Seventh regiment [sic], which also performed at the intervals of the programme.”