English Glee Concert: 2nd

Event Information

Venue(s):
De Garmo Hall

Price: $1.50

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  English Glee Club;  George E. Aiken [bass];  George G. [tenor] Rockwood;  Henrietta Beebe;  William H. [baritone] Beckett;  Louisa [alto] Finch;  Charles G. [tenor] Bush
2)
Frühlingslied, voice, piano, unidentified
aka Fruhlingslied; Swiss spring song
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Henrietta Beebe
3)
"Day is done, The"
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Longfellow
Participants:  Louisa [alto] Finch
4)
"Moine, Le"
aka Monk, The; Mönch, Der
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants:  George E. Aiken [bass]
5)
"Ye spotted snakes"
Composer(s): Stevens
6)
"See the chariot at hand here of love"
Composer(s): Horsley
7)
"Queen of the silver bow"
Composer(s): Hindle
8)
"O will who will o'er the downs so free"
Composer(s): Pearsall
9)
"O hush thee my babie"
Composer(s): Sullivan

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 March 1874, 7.
2)
Review: New York Post, 19 March 1874, 3.
“De Garmo’s Hall was last night the scene of a very pleasant entertainment—another of those charming concerts in which a few of our best resident singers have given so much pleasure to their friends and to the musical public this season. The programme on this occasion was almost entirely new, while for encores old favorites were substituted. The soloists were Miss Beebe, who sang Mendelssohn’s Spring Song; Miss Finch, who gave a most intelligent and refined interpretation of Balfe’s setting of Longfellow’s lines ‘The Day is done’; and Mr. Aiken, who sang ‘The Monk,’ by Meyerbeer.
 
The part singing was among the best which this admirable group of vocalists have ever given us. Stevens’s ‘Ye Spotted Snakes’ was perfect in all respects. Horsley’s brilliant composition ‘See! the chariot at hand,’ received admirable treatment. Hindle’s ‘Queen of the Silver Bow,’ and Pearsall’s ‘Who will o’er the Downs?’ also deserve mention. For an encore, Sullivan’s ‘Hush thee, my baby,’ was sung, and was received with all the favor usually commanded by this popular little part-song.”