Seventh Regiment Charity Ball; For the Benefit of the Poor of the City of New York

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jan 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band

Citations

1)
Article: New York Herald, 28 December 1873, 4.

Previewing “four great charity balls” to take place in the coming six weeks, all at the Academy of Music.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 January 1874, 7.

Includes names of committee members.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 04 January 1874, 5.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 06 January 1874, 5.

“…Grafulla’s 7th Regiment Band, increased to 100 performers, will furnish the music. The band will be stationed at the rear of the stage—an innovation, as heretofore the bands have been placed in the third tier…”

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 January 1874, 7.

Includes program performed by the band for the dancers.

6)
Review: New York Post, 07 January 1874, 2.

“…Grafulla’s band discoursed most excellent music selected from the works of Suppe, Rossini, Strauss, Grill, Hohmann and Wiegand…”

7)
Review: New-York Times, 19 January 1874, 5.

“…But at a given signal up flew the baton of Mr. Grafulla, the well-known conductor  of the Seventh Band, and the quickstep march composed by him and dedicated to the gallant Col. Emmons Clark, pealed forth with brilliant effect. Then began the opening march, headed by the commander of the Seventh and his fair wife. Three times the promenaders made the circuit of the floor. Then the band, making division of itself, one-half retreated to the back of the stage, and the other ascended to the right-hand gallery, the former to play the dance music, the latter the airs for the promenade, which were to succeed each other like the strophe and anti-strophe of a Greek play.” Includes program of the twenty dances performed.