Philharmonic Society of New York Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Feb 1874, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York;  Henryk Wieniawski
2)
Concerto, violin, op. 64, E minor
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski
3)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Bach
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 February 1874, 7.
2)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 13 February 1874.

“Philharmonic rehearsal 2:30 p.m. In my box were Rosalie [Ruggles], Mrs. Newman (who was Miss Ellen Rogers), Mrs. De Neufville, Mrs. Harry Parker, Charles Carroll, and Temple. Wieniawski did a brilliant & beautiful Mendelssohn concerto, & a dry, hard, scrapy something by Bach.

Then a directors’ meeting. The projected performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the C. M. A. chorus seems likely to fall through. The two hundred members of that chorus want two reserved seats each. We have not a quarter of that number to give them. Were this difficulty got over, two of the directors (at least) are unwilling to give the 9th symphony at all. It will involve expenses, and they think, moreover, that the C. M. A. chorus cannot do it. Possibly they are right.”