New York Conservatory of Music Sacred Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $1; $.50 extra, reserved seat; $8 and $12 boxes; $.50 family circle

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 November 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Postponed from December 27.

Donadio, Maresi, Bassini, and Fiorini perform courtesy of Max Strakosch.

The first part of the program comprised six selections from Rossini’s Stabat Mater: Cujus Animam, Quis es Homo, Pro Peccatis, Fac ut Portem, and Inflammatus).

The program also contained various works that the citation does not identify specifically (an aria, a concerto movement, a march, etc.). Music in Gotham lists here only works that the citation identifies by composer and/or title.

Music in Gotham does not include here the names of the students that performed; for a full list, see the advertisement in the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung of 12/26/74.

The selection from Donizetti’s Lucia is described as a “rondo,” and the unidentified Liszt work seems to have been a concerto (or at least part of one).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified; New York Conservatory of Music pupils; Unidentified Mollenhauer; G. [pianist] Morosini; Alice Maresi; [bass] Fiorini; Bianca Donadio; Alberto de Bassini; Adelaide Randall

2)

Stabat Mater, selections

Composer(s): Rossini

3)

Theodora, "Angels, ever fair and bright"

aka Angels ever bright and fair

Composer(s): Handel

Text Author: Morell [librettist]

4)

Composer(s): Vieuxtemps

Participants: Orchestra, unidentified

5)

ProphÃ¨te, Le, "Oh! ma me?re ombre si tendre"

aka prayer

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

6)

Martha, "Letzte Rose"

aka Last rose of summer; Qui sola virgin rosa

Composer(s): Flotow

7)

aka Alpine echoes

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: Unidentified Mollenhauer

8)

Lucia di Lammermoor, selection

aka Lucy of Lammermoor

Composer(s): Donizetti

Participants: Bianca Donadio

9)

10)

Work, vocal, unidentified

Composer(s): Mozart

11)

Mignon, "Je suis Titania"

aka Polonaise; Polacca

Composer(s): Thomas

Participants: Alice Maresi

12)

Work, piano, unidentified

Composer(s): Liszt

Participants: G. [pianist] Morosini

13)

Mignon, "Connais-tu le pays?"

aka Kennst du das Land?; Kennst du meine Heimat?; Do you know the land?; Mignon's romance; Non conosci il bel suol

Composer(s): Thomas

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 December 1874, 7.

For December 27; selections from the sacred and classical works of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn, Meyerbeer, Verdi, and others.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 December 1874, 2.

Programme as it was to be given on Dec. 27.

3)

Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 December 1874, 6.

Program and list of professional and student performers.

4)

Announcement: New-York Times, 27 December 1874, 11.

Postponed until Jan. 3.

5)

Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 December 1874, 5.

“The concert that was to take place under Maretzek’s direction at the Academy of Music has been postponed until next Sunday.”