Concert for the Benefit of the Yale Boat Club
Event Information
Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Price: $.75; $1, reserved seat
Performance Forces:
Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
1 May 2025
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
02 Apr 1874, EveningPerformers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Dutchman's lee-tle dog;
Where has my little dog gone;
With his ears cut short and his tail cut long
Composer(s): Winner
Citations
2)
“The concert of the Yale College Glee Club, given in aid of the Boat Club of the Alma Mater, at Steinway Hall, last evening, was quite largely attended. The selections appealed, of course, most strongly to persons familiar with college life, but there were few listeners unmoved to laughter by the ‘nonsense verses’ set to well-known tunes, and two or three pretty pieces of concerted music were rendered with a precision denoting taste and practice. The club is fifteen members strong.”
3)
“The Yale College Glee Club gave one of their characteristic entertaiments at Steinway Hall last evening, to a respectable and appreciative audience. The object of the entertainment was to raise funds for the Yale Boat Club. The solos, duets and quartets showed that the club has many admirable voices, and the college songs developed the careful training to which they have been subjected. The feature of the affair was in the rendering of the comic songs and the travesty of familiar airs. Most notable among these were the warble, ‘Oh! Where has my little dog gone?’ the ‘Swiss Song and Warble,’ the ‘Wein Galop,’ and ‘Bohunkus.’ Throughout the entire second part, the delight of the audience was manifested in double and treble encores. In response, the ‘Old Dog Tray’ and the imitation of the bagpipe were specially amusing. The ‘hit’ of the evening, however, was ‘Bohunkus.’ This is a recitative song after—
‘There was a man who had two sons,
And these two sons were brothers.’
One of the club, who acts as director, reciting a couplet, and then shouting ‘Sing,’ whereupon they do sing in the most approved camp-meeting style. The story goes on—
‘Bohunkus was the name of one,
Josephus of the other.’
‘Sing!’
The story is long’ and ends in the death of the twain, and their epitaph ran
‘Bohunkus then to heaven went,
Josephus to---.’
The entertainment closed with the waltz song, ‘Hark! Hark!’ by the whole club, which is one of their best.”