Private Soir�e Musicale

Event Information

Venue(s):
Residence of Mrs. Paran Stevens

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jan 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ellen Ruggles Strong;  Fanny Reed Tate [vocal]
2)
Elijah, "Lift thine eyes"
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 17 January 1870.

“Then to Mrs. Paran Stevens’ soirée musicale, with Ellie in crowd—enormous temperature. Rooms most gorgeously draped & furnished, so that in them music sounds as if sung through a wall of cottonbales. Ellie took part in Mendelssohn’s “Lift Thine Eyes” with Miss Fanny Reed & Mme. Anderson very well indeed. I expressed platitudes to sundry people, including beautiful Miss Fanny & Miss Mamy Smythe, Mme. von Hoffman, Mrs. Talboys, Mrs. Murray, etc. Miss Fanny S. is a Hebe, with her fine coloring & her look of vigorous health.”