Colossal Sunday Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Jones's Wood Coliseum

Proprietor / Lessee:
J. Fr. Schultheis

Conductor(s):
David L. Downing

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 May 1875, 3:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band;  Benjamin C. Bent
2)
Tambour der Guard, Der, overture
Composer(s): Titl
3)
Am schönen Rhein, op. 83
aka Am schonen Rhein; On the beautiful Rhine
Composer(s): Kéler
4)
Fille de Madame Angot, La, selection
Composer(s): Lecocq
5)
Fackeltänz, military band, no. 1
aka Torch dance, no. 1
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
6)
Excelsior, [polka]
Composer(s): Frewin
Participants:  Benjamin C. Bent
7)
Macbeth, selection
Composer(s): Verdi
8)
Rosamunde, overture, D. 797
Composer(s): Schubert
9)
Carnival of Venice, The
aka Carnival de Venice
Composer(s): Kerssen
10)
Don Pasquale, selection
Composer(s): Donizetti
11)
Fairy palace, [arr. Godfrey]
Composer(s): Levy
12)
Tannhäuser, "Pilgerchor"
aka Pilgrim's Chorus; Tannhauser, Pilgerchor
Composer(s): Wagner
13)
There is no harm in kissing
Composer(s): Downing

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 May 1875, 11.

“Third season; grand monster concert; a double military band the the full Ninth Regiment Drum Corps; over 150 musicians.”

2)
Review: New York Herald, 24 May 1875, 7.

“Mr. Schultheis, the proprietor of Jones’ Wood Colosseum, the largest musical resort in the city, had a preliminary concert there yesterday afternoon, at which Downing’s Ninth Regiment Band appeared. The programme consisted of the following selections [see above]. The band has lost none of those qualities of brilliant, artistic rendering and homogeneity of expression that years ago made it renowned among our military organizations. In Mr. Bent one will find a cornet player second only to Levy in effective and telling style of playing, and he was enthusiastically recalled after the ‘Excelsior Polka.’”