Matthew T. Brennan Barbecue and Promenade Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Belvedere Lion Park

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Sep 1873, 3:00 PM

Program Details

The unidentified Beethoven work is a song, the title of which is illegible in the citations.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band
2)
Overture, unidentified
Composer(s): Suppé
3)
"Mollie darling"
aka Molly darling; Molly dancing; Don't go, Mollie darling
Composer(s): Hays
Text Author: Hays
4)
Orphée aux enfers, selections
aka Orphee aux enfers selections
Composer(s): Offenbach
5)
Pandekten Walzer
Composer(s): Gung'l
6)
Husaren Polka-Mazurka
Composer(s): Parlow
7)
Kikeriki-Polka, op. 290
Composer(s): Fahrbach
8)
Consortien, op. 260
aka Consorten
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Work, vocal, unidentified
Composer(s): Beethoven
10)
Bahn frei!, op. 45
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
Périchole, La, selections
aka Perichole, La, selections
Composer(s): Offenbach
12)
Am schönen Rhein, op. 83
aka Am schonen Rhein; On the beautiful Rhine
Composer(s): Kéler
13)
Brennan Association march
Composer(s): Grafulla

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 September 1873, 13.

At 3pm, “grand opening by Grafulla’s Seventh Regiment Band of sixty pieces” and “promenade Concert.” Oration and barbecue follow. From 5pm to 7pm, “promenade concert.” Fireworks follow. From 8pm to 2am, “dancing and general enjoyment.”

2)
Review: New York Herald, 17 September 1873, 5.
“Nearly 2,000 persons visited Lion Park yesterday afternoon and evening, the occasion being the celebration of the third annual barbecue and promenade concert of the Matthew T. Brennan Central Association…The programme was as follows:—3 P.M. Grand opening by Grafulla’s Seventh Regiment band [sic] of sixty pieces; 3 to 4 P. M. promenade concert, with the following selections [lists program].
From five to seven o’clock the promenade concert was resumed, at eight o’clock the fireworks were set off, and from eight until three o’clock there was dancing and various other amusements, in which the vast number of persons of both sexes heartily participated.” Goes on, includes list of “prominent persons present,” but no further mention of music.