Clara Louise Kellogg Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Eastside Hall

Conductor(s):
E. [pianist, conductor] Marzo

Price: $1.50 reserved; $1

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Sep 1873, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mathilde Toedt;  Clara Louise Kellogg;  Lina Luckhardt [piano];  Giorgio Ronconi;  Wilford [tenor] Morgan
2)
Linda di Chamounix, cavatina
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Clara Louise Kellogg
3)
"Schlaf wohl, du süsser Engel du"
aka Sleep well, sweet angel; Sleep well, dear angel
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Wilford [tenor] Morgan
4)
"Pretty girl milking her cow, The"
aka Valley lay smiling before me, The; Pretty girl milking her cow, A
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Clara Louise Kellogg

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 September 1873, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 September 1873, 3.

“Miss Kellogg, before she plunges into the maelstrom of English Opera, proposes to devote one evening to a New York concert. [Lists performers.] The name of Miss Kellogg ought to be sufficient to bring on Tuesday evening next a number of admirers.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 September 1873, 7.

Lists performers.

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 28 September 1873, 6.

“Miss Clara Louise Kellogg’s concert, at the East Side Association Hall next Tuesday evening, is looked forward to with much interest by the fashionable of Yorkville and Harlem. It is so seldom that our uptown people have an entertainment all to themselves that it is quite natural a first class concert by an artiste of Miss Kellogg’s rank, assisted as she will be by several others not unknown to fame, should cause a great flutter and excitement. The affair promises to be a great success. By the way, why don’t the Yorkvillers and Harlemers establish some permanent place of amusement for themselves?”

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 September 1873, 11.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 01 October 1873, 8.
“The handsome, well ventilated and well lighted hall of the East Side Association, at the corner of Third avenue and Eighty-sixth street, was graced with the presence of Miss Clara Louise Kellogg last evening in concert. She sang with that purity of tone, breadth of expression and thoroughness of artistic style that augurs well for the coming season of English opera, since much depends on the condition of the prima donna’s voice. The sparkling cavatina from ‘Linda,’ with which her name is inseparably associated, and a fantastic song, half Hungarian, half Scandinavian by Pease, brought an encore each time, and in the duet with the new tenor of the English opera, Mr. Morgan, whose voice is like linked sweetness long drawn out, exceedingly small in tone, a musical snuff box, the voice of Miss Kellogg was charming to a degree. The tenor sang a couple of solos, Abt’s ‘Sweet Angel,’ and a puerile effusion of Claribel, and Ronconi rattled off some of his characteristic pieces. Miss Matilda Toedt proved that she was entitled to the position of one of the most popular violinists in New York, her style of playing being greatly matured within the last year.
 
Miss Luckhardt played a piano solo which was rather ambitious for a young artist. This is the second time that Miss Kellogg has sung at this hall and her popularity seemed to be on the increase last evening. The encore, ‘The Pretty Girl Milking her Cow,’ with which she responded to the applause of the audience, was exquisitely delivered, as might be looked for from a Catharine Hayes. The concert season of the East Side Association has commenced under favorable auspices.”