“The testimonial concert for the benefit of the Gilbert Library and Prisoners’ Aid Fund was given last evening at Barnum’s Hippodrome. About 3,000 persons were present. The programme consisted of selections from the finest works of Handel, Beethoven, and Wagner.

The Arion Society, New York Oratorio Society, and the Handel and Haydn Society of Brooklyn sang the choruses, and the solo parts were taken by Mrs. Gulager, Miss Drasdil, Messrs. Bischoff and Remmertz, and Mr. S. B. Mills.”

“This lady gave a concert last evening, for the benefit of the Gilbert Library and Prisoner’s Aid Fund, at Barnum’s Hippodrome, the programme being as follows [see above]. This was certainly a very ambitious bill and one calculated to excite interest in the musical mind; but the immense size of the building, the bad location of the stage in an acoustic point of view, and the sparse attendance threw a damper over the concert.”

“The Linda Gilbert concert at the Hippodrome on Tuesday evening, in aid of the Gilbert Library and Prisoners’ Reilief Fund, proved the reverse of the success that was anticipated, the attendance being light, and the excellent artists who took part being placed at a decided disadvantage by the miserable acoustic effect of this immense building. The programme was an admirable one, and would have proved elsewhere, with the artists engaged in its interpretation, a most enjoyable bill. The expenses exceeded the receipts by more than $3,000.”