Sunday Concert: 18th; Benefit of the Ninth Regiment Band

Event Information

Venue(s):
Jones's Wood Coliseum

Proprietor / Lessee:
J. Fr. Schultheis

Conductor(s):
David L. Downing

Price: $.25, ladies free

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Sep 1874, 3:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band;  Benjamin C. Bent
2)
Reine d’un jour, La, overture
Composer(s): Adam
3)
Nautilus waltz
Composer(s): Cooney
4)
Operas. Selections
Composer(s): Bellini
5)
Festmarsch
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
6)
Excelsior polka
Composer(s): Levy
Participants:  Benjamin C. Bent
7)
Roméo et Juliette, selections
aka Romeo et Juliette, selections
Composer(s): Gounod
8)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
"Lofsöngur"
aka Iceland's millennial hymn; Lofsongur
Composer(s): Sveinbjörrnsson
10)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selection
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
I think of thee
Composer(s): Downing
12)
Wiener Blut, op. 354
aka Viennese blue blood
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Southern life galop
aka Plantation galop
Composer(s): Cassidy [composer]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 September 1874, 4.

Includes program. “Last grand concert of the season.”