Schmelz Christmas Concert and Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1873, Evening

Program Details

The review only lists “Mr. Brandt” and “Mr. Werner” without giving their first names. It is difficult to ascertain their identities. Music in Gotham assumes it is the cellist Charles Werner, since he performed in several events in December 1873. Music in Gotham provides two possibilities in the performer list for Brandt.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  New York Männerchor;  Charles [cellist, composer] Werner;  Adolph Sohst;  Ferdinand von [pianist] Inten;  Mr. [cellist] Brandt;  Anna [soprano] Simon;  Hermann Brandt;  Reinhard Schmelz
2)
Quartet, piano and strings, unidentified
Composer(s): Beethoven

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Times, 25 December 1873, 8.

“Among the Germans the day [Christmas] was generally celebrated as a holiday. The head-quarters of the numerous societies and clubs were extensively decorated with Christmas trees and pine foliage… The New-York Maennerchor gave a concert at Terrace Garden last night, for which a programme composed of some choice composition had been prepared, in the rendition of which several trained soloists assisted. The affair was wound up by a ball.”

2)
Review: New York Herald, 28 December 1873, 3.

“Mr. Reinhard Schmelz, a distinguished violinist and director of the New York Männerchor, gave a very interesting concert on Christmas night at Terrace Garden. In the andante and rondo ([illeg. – klavier?] quartet of Beethoven) he was assited by Messrs. Van Inten, Brandt and Werner. The solo vocalists on the occasion were Miss A. Simon and Herr Sohst. The Männerchor sang selections from Hoffmann, Abt and Billeter.”