Mendelssohn Glee Club Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Conductor(s):
Joseph Mosenthal

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Dec 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mendelssohn Glee Club;  Sebastian Bach Mills;  Henrietta Beebe

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., 10 December 1870.

“Tonight with Ellie, Miss Nelly Smythe, & Diccon [Richard Henry Derby, Strong’s nephew] to Mendelssohn Glee Club concert, Irving Hall. Miss Nelly is a most superb young lady, with kind simple manners. The club is a chorus of 30 or 40 bassi & tenori, with Mösenthal as leader. Jem [James Francis Ruggles, Ellie’s brother] is much interested in it. They do songs—‘choral scenas,’ etc., by Abt, Märschner, Schumann, Wagner, & others, & do these most effectively, with evidence of careful study, good taste, & good drilling. A Miss Beebe—amateur, sang nicely, & Mills degraded himself & his art—a fine instrument, by the most brilliant admirable meaningless prestidigitation on the piano. Enthusiastically encored—of course. Audience large & ‘select,’ the club being sustained by subscription.”