Event Information

Venue(s):
Gilmore's Concert Garden

Manager / Director:
Patrick S. Gilmore

Conductor(s):
Patrick S. Gilmore

Price: $.50; $1 extra, private box

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Jul 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Gilmore's Band;  Jules [cornet] Levy;  Adolph Sohst;  Matthew Arbuckle;  Edward A. Lefebre
2)
Rienzi, overture
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
Elegie
aka Elegy
Composer(s): Proch
Participants:  Edward A. Lefebre
4)
Robert le diable, selections
aka Potpourri on Robert le diable
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
5)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Weber
Participants:  Matthew Arbuckle
6)
Lucia di Lammermoor, selections
aka Lucy of Lammermoor
Composer(s): Donizetti
7)
Puritan's daughter, The, "My own sweet child"
Composer(s): Balfe
Participants:  Adolph Sohst
8)
Polka brillant
Composer(s): Levy
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
9)
Lohengrin, selection
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
"O bitt’euch, liebe Vögelein"
aka Ye merry birds that sweetly sing; Ye pretty birds; Come ye pretty birds
Composer(s): Gumbert
11)
March, band, unidentified
Composer(s): Gilmore
12)
"Star-spangled banner, The"
aka Star spangled banned
Composer(s): Smith
Text Author: Key

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 July 1875, 1.

Includes program; Gilmore’s march introduced Keller’s American hymn and Gilmore’s song, “Sad news from home.”