Promenade Concert for the Benefit of the New York City Missions

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band;  Deutscher Liederkranz;  Anna [soprano] Borie;  Dora Steele
2)
Gazza ladra, La, overture
aka Diebische Elster, Die; Thieving magpie
Composer(s): Rossini
3)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber
4)
Africaine, L', selections
aka Africaine potpourri
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
5)
Drømmebilleder
aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
6)
Maometto II, trio
Composer(s): Rossini
7)
"Vorbei"
aka Vorher
Composer(s): Möhring
Participants:  Deutscher Liederkranz
8)
Gesänge, men's voices, op. 192. Stille Wasserrose, Die
aka Gesange, men's voice, op. 192
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Deutscher Liederkranz
9)
Lucrezia Borgia, "“M’odi, ah m’odi”"
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Dora Steele
10)
"Ave Maria," (Vocal version)
Composer(s): Gounod
11)
"Waiting"
Composer(s): Millard
Text Author: Flagg
Participants:  Anna [soprano] Borie

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 April 1874, 5.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 April 1874, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 10 April 1874, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 April 1874, 7.

Includes program listing of very short pieces.

5)
Review: New York Post, 15 April 1874, 2.

“A fashionable audience gathered at the Academy of Music last evening to hear the concert given for the benefit of the above-named society, with the aid of the Liederkranz Society and several eminent artists. Grafulla’s Seventh regiment band, consisting of one hundred men, executed in excellent style [see above]. Both of these choruses [by Mohring and Abt] were loudly applauded, and had to be repeated.

Mrs. Dora Steele, a debutante, made her first appearance in public last night, and sang ‘M’odi, ah M’odi’ from Lucrezia Borgia, and Gounod’s ‘Ave Maria.’ She has a pure soprano voice of large compass. She sings with taste and dramatic expression, evidently belongs to a good school, and may yet become one of our leading singers. She was loudly applauded.

Miss Anna J. Borie sang Millard’s ‘Waiting,’ and was well received. The whole entertainment was, indeed, satisfactory both to artists and audience—or as satisfactory as a promenade concert can ever be.”