Seventy-First Regiment Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Felice J. Eben

Price: $1.50 reserved; $1

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Dec 1873, Evening

Program Details

The Ernani selection featured “solos for clarionet and baritone.”

Gumbert’s Frohsinn was performed as a cornet duet.

The selection of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte was performed by brass instruments only.

The selections from Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots were performed as a potpourri with solos for cornet and euphonium.

Where “drum corps” is indicated in the works list, the corps joined the band for the performance of that work.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventy-First Regiment Drum Corps;  Seventy-First Regiment Band;  Felice J. Eben
2)
Seventy-First Regiment
Composer(s): Eben
Participants:  Seventy-First Regiment Drum Corps
3)
Banditenstreiche, overture
aka Wild pranks
Composer(s): Suppé
4)
Ernani, selection
Composer(s): Verdi
5)
Frohsinn
aka Cheerfulness
Composer(s): Gumbert
6)
Orphée aux enfers, selection
aka Orphee aux enfers, selection
Composer(s): Offenbach
7)
INTERMISSION
8)
Grand camp
Composer(s): Lindpaintner
9)
Lieder ohne Worte. Selection
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
10)
Huguenots, Les, selections
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Deschamps
11)
Caprice de concert
Composer(s): Terschak
Participants:  Felice J. Eben
12)
American guard march
Composer(s): Heinck
Participants:  Seventy-First Regiment Drum Corps

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 05 December 1873, 2.

“Incited, apparently, by the success of Mr. Gilmore’s Twenty-second [sic] Regiment Band concert, Mr. Eben announces a similar entertainment by the Seventy-first [sic] Regiment Band of sixty performers. It will take place at the Academy of Music on Thursday evening of next week.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 December 1873, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 December 1873, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 December 1873, 4.

“[B]and of sixty performers.”

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 December 1873, 7.

Only citation with program.

6)
Review: New York Post, 19 December 1873, 2.

“Some stirring and well-executed military and miscellaneous music was performed at the Academy of Music last night by the band of the Seventy-first [sic] Regiment. The members of the organization, in their quiet but [illeg. – tasty?] uniform, occupied the stage, and under the baton of Mr. Eben played with precision and good effect. A very picturesque overture by Lindpainter was one of the principal features of the evening, and a fantasia on airs from the ‘Huguenots’ was alos well worhty of notice. Mr. Eben played a flute solo on themes from Donizetti, and the concert closed with a dashing performance of the popular Regimental March.”

7)
Announcement: New York Post, 23 December 1873, 1.

Brief. “The rivalry between the bands of the Twenty-second and Seventy-first regiments—Gilmore’s and Eben’s—is inciting the musicians of both organizations to renewed efforts.”