Amateur Philharmonic Society of New York Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Robinson Hall

Conductor(s):
Leopold [violinist, conductor, minstrel] Meyer

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Dec 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Amateur Philharmonic Society of New York;  Alfred Humphries Pease;  Clementine [soprano] Lasar
2)
Symphony, no. 2, op. 36, D major
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
"Ave Maria," (Vocal version)
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Clementine [soprano] Lasar
4)
Reverie, string orchestra
aka Reve, Le
Composer(s): Meyer
5)
Fantasia, piano, unidentified
Composer(s): Pease
6)
Semiramide, overture
Composer(s): Rossini
7)
Blättlein im Winde
aka Blattlein im Winde; Leaves in the wind
Composer(s): Faust

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., 19 December 1872.

“With Ellie & Louis after dinner to ‘Robinson Hall’ & the Amateur Philharmonic. Room more than full: audience lively & good-natured. Among them Mrs. Ruggles, Mrs. Dinsmore, Mrs. Parker, Rev. Cooke & wife, little Wetmore, etc. Second symphony; song by Miss Clementine Lazare, prettily rendered, & (on an encore) Gounod’s Ave Maria; ‘Le Rêve,’ for strings alone, by Meyer, the conductor (poor & thin); Piano fantasie, A. H. Pease (trash); Overture to Semiramide; violin solo by D. De Mainville, most admirable as an amateur performance, & quite up to the average professional standard. Finale, waltz, ‘Blättlein im Winde’ (orchestra) by one Faust. Rather commonplace.

The orchestra did itself very great credit. On both these occasions Johny was ‘cello (first ‘cello of the latter) & Temple the Indomitable, 2nd oboe. It was funny to watch him this evening, with his eyes as big as saucers, or as soup tureens, & with his whole being concentrated upon his work. I am well pleased with their devotion to music. It may be somewhat excessive, & draw them off a little from books, but it tends to keep them out of mischief, & it secures them for all their lives a source of most intense & healthy enjoyment. The faculty of appreciating in some moderate degree the music of Handel & Beethoven—or Haydn & Mozart—of Weber & Mendelssohn—is no less a subject of profound thanksgiving than the sense of sight. It is among the greatest of earthly blessings.”