Blind Tom Concert
Event Information
Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Price: $.75 reserved; $.50; children under 9 half price
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
11 April 2025
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
17 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM19 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
20 Dec 1873, 1:30 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Includes long and rather fanciful explanation of Bethune’s musicianship: “…his melody lives in the soul. It needs no extraneous aid. It spurns rules and gamuts as useless and cumbersome. It repudiates the tyranny of forms and lessons, just as a cherub would call into question the celestial purity of its plumage…”