Ellie Strong Reception

Event Information

Venue(s):
Residence of George Templeton Strong

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Feb 1870, Afternoon

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Marietta Gazzaniga;  Henri [pianist] Kowalski;  Emily [soprano] Davison
2)
Nozze di Figaro, Le, "Dove sono"
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Emily [soprano] Davison
3)
Fantasia on themes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Henri [pianist] Kowalski
4)
Lieder, op. 48. Busslied
Composer(s): Beethoven
Participants:  Marietta Gazzaniga

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., 24 February 1870.

“It was an afternoon of extensive music. Mrs. Davison sang. Extremely effective in English ballad, but her tremolo does not suit (“Dove sono”). Her voice is beautiful & sympathetic & a little training may make her a singer of very high grade. Kowalski played a sort of fantasia from Don Giovanni, first playing each lovely melody clearly & simply, & then rending it limb from limb, as it were, with exhibitions of dexterity & “finger,” or rather degrading it into a subject for the display of his own clever manipulation. A newly-imported Spanish violinist with a brown sherry face, a friend of Lansing’s, did very well indeed. Mme. Gazzaniga sang Beethoven’s “Busslied” magnificently.”