Promenade Concert and Soir�e Dansante

Event Information

Venue(s):
Twenty-Second Regiment Armory

Conductor(s):
Patrick S. Gilmore

Price: $1

Event Type:
Band, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 May 1874, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Also included an illegible waltz by an unidentified Strauss.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Twenty-Second Regiment Band;  Matthew Arbuckle;  Edward A. Lefebre
2)
Grand camp
Composer(s): Lindpaintner
3)
Variations on Bellini’s Casta diva from Norma
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Edward A. Lefebre
4)
Africaine, L', selection
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
5)
Chant d'amour
Composer(s): Forestier
Participants:  Matthew Arbuckle
6)
Lovely Laura
Composer(s): Gilmore
7)
Paraphrase über Die Loreley nach Silcher
Composer(s): Nesvadba
8)
Garde d’empereur
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
INTERMISSION
10)
Adelia
Composer(s): Wiegand
11)
Carnevalsbilder, op. 357
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Windspiel, Das
Composer(s): Herrmann
13)
Jubilee lanciers
Composer(s): Weingarten
14)
Bei uns z’Haus
aka At home
Composer(s): Strauss
15)
Schalbenflug
Composer(s): Wiegand
16)
Constellation lancers
Composer(s): Wiegand
17)
Twenty-Second Regiment galop
Composer(s): Herta

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 May 1874, 7.

Includes program; dancing at 10 pm, following intermission. 

2)
Review: New York Post, 25 May 1874, 2.

“At the Twenty-second Regiment Armory last Saturday night Mr. Gilmore began a series of summer concerts. His large and well trained band played a selection of operatic and other music in which Strauss figured largely. After the concert there was dancing, the music provided by a string band. The Armory is an excellent place in which to hear the powerful strident music in which Mr. Gilmore delights; and its floor is admirably adapted for dancing purposes, and was well tested on Saturday. It is intended that these agreeable entertainments shall be given weekly; and to the young people of New York—especially those who are at the period when the fancy

‘—lightly turns to thoughts of love’

--the Gilmore concerts offer the irresistible charms of good music, chances for chat, unlimited dancing and excellent company. To take the beloved one to a Twenty-second regiment concert ought to be considered by the well-regulated youth of New York as the highest culmination of human happiness.”