Twenty-Second Regiment Band Concert

“The spacious armory of the Twenty-second regiment was crowded last evening by a very brilliant and fashionable audience. The promenade concerts inaugurated by Mr. P. S. Gilmore have already attained a degree of popularity quite flattering, and last night’s programme was interesting not only in the variety of its selections, giving a little of every description of music, but also in the general merit of the performance. Meyerbeer, Rossini, Wagner, Offenbach, Ambroise Thomas, Mercadante, Bellini, Strauss, Gilmore and Helmsmüller present an array of composers of the most opposite schools. Mr. Arbuckle furnished as a cornet solo the beautiful cavatina from Mercadante’s ‘Il Bravo,’ and Mr. Lefebre’s artistic playing on the saxophone was another feature. The selections from Bellini comprised a mélange of airs from ‘La Sonnambula’ and ‘I Puritani,’ in which some of the principal instrumentalists of the band had an opportunity to display their virtuoso abilities.”