Event Information

Venue(s):
Bryant's Opera House (W. 23d St.)

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
18 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
19 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM
20 Jun 1874, 2:00 PM
20 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant;  Nelse Seymour;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  James Unsworth;  [minstrel singer] Eugene;  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph;  Karl [cellist] Steele
2)
"We sat by the river"
aka You and I
Composer(s): Barnard
Text Author: Barnard
Participants:  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph
3)
School, [burlesque]
aka Spelling match
4)
Cello solos
Participants:  Karl [cellist] Steele
5)
Fooling with the wrong man
6)
Uncle Eph's dream
aka My old Kentucky home
Text Author: White

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 June 1874, 2.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 June 1874, 102.

“The season closes at Bryant’s Minstrels on Wednesday next [June 24]. As a whole, it may be pronounced one of the most prosperous ever known during their career of eighteen years in this city…Lovers of classical music were delighted with violoncello solos by Karl Steele.”