Arion M�nnergesangverein Vocal and Instrumental Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Arion Hall

Price: $1

Event Type:
Choral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Arion Männergesangverein;  Hermann [violinist] Brandt;  H. Alexander Bischoff;  Fräulein [mezzo-soprano] Bartholdi
2)
Work, vocal, unidentified
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
"Wehmuth"
Composer(s): Schuberth
4)
"Treue Joahie, Der"
Composer(s): Damrosch
5)
"Mucker und Schlucker"
Composer(s): Rheinberger
6)
Lieder, op. 111. Mainacht
Composer(s): Abt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 November 1874, 6.
2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 November 1874, 5.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 November 1874, 5.

“The Männergesangverein ‘Arion’ had yesterday evening in its hall the first concert for the 1874–’75 season. The concert attracted such a large audience that the limited space of the hall was barely sufficient to accommodate it. The choruses performed by the club were definitely the best part of the concert. Two Mendelssohn compositions; Schuberth’s ‘Wehmuth;’ a Scottish folk song by Dr. Damrosch, which quite happily strikes just the right tone for a folksong; a lively and fresh original composition by Rheinberger, which bears the title ‘Mucker und Schlucker;’ and Abt’s not entirely unknown ‘Maiennact,’ were sung by the society with rare confidence, precision, beautiful expression, and nuance. The violinist Herr H. Brandt and the tenor Herr Wm. Bischoff (who has a wonderful voice but sometimes sings quite ‘wildly’) made a sensation with their solos, while the female singer, who made her concert debut, had to be content with a hardly deserved Aufstands-Erfolge.”