Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $1

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

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Composer(s): Haydn
Participants:  Armin Schotte
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Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Isabella Brush
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aka See the pale moon; Luna bianca; Una sera d’amore; Sweetly the moonlight gleaming
Composer(s): Campana
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Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
Participants:  Leopold Damrosch
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Composer(s): Servais
Participants:  Frederick Bergner
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Composer(s): Suppé

Citations

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Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 January 1874, 7.
2)
Review: New-York Times, 30 January 1874, 5.

The concert included excerpts from works by Haydn, Beethoven, Suppé, and Vieuxtemps.

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Review: New York Herald, 30 January 1874, 6.

“The audience last night at Steinway Hall, for the benefit of this noble charity, was the largest assembled this season at any concert, and the programme was correspondingly interesting. Mr. Armin Schotte played an organ solo, the first movement of Haydn’s symphony in D major, as an introduction to the concert, and displayed powers of no ordinary standard in the skill, taste and expression which were combined in his interpretation. Miss Isabella Brush, an American élève of the Conservatoire of Milan, sung an aria from ‘L’Elisire d’Amore,’ and a volkslied as an encore. Her voice is rich, flexible and well trained. In the duet of Campana, ‘Mira la Bianca Luna,’ which she sung with the Liederkranz basso, Mr. F. Steins, Miss Brush was no less satisfactory. The other artists were Messrs. Mills, Damrosch and Bergner, who gave a choice rendering of a selection from Beethoven’s trio in E-flat, opus 1. Mr. Mills also contributed two of the most popular piano works in his répertoire, Dr. Damrosch an adagio of Vieuxtemps and Mr. Bergner one of Servais’ inimitable compositions for the ‘cello. Mr. Steins, in the curious song of Suppé, ‘Ländlich, sittlich,’was warmly applauded, and for an encore gave a beautiful melody of Feschka. It was a thoroughly enjoyable concert from beginning to end.”