Sacred Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Atlantic Garden [8/67 and after]

Proprietor / Lessee:
William [proprietor] Kramer

Conductor(s):
Karl Kerssen

Price: $.10

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 January 2026

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Feb 1868, 2:00 PM
23 Feb 1868, 7:00 PM

Program Details

Orchestrion concert, 2 pm; orchestral concert, 7 pm. The La muette de Portici fantasie is erroneously attributed to Auber in NYSZ ad. The work is probably by Kerssen, since the program includes other works by him.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Atlantic Garden, orchestra [8/67 and after]
2)
Kriegers Abschied
Composer(s): Lang
3)
Martyrs, Les, selection
Composer(s): Donizetti
4)
Herbstblätter
Composer(s): Kerssen
5)
Fantasie on Auber's La muette de Portici
Composer(s): Kerssen
6)
Helenen-Quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
Fliegende Blätter
aka Fliegende Blatter
Composer(s): Kerssen
8)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
9)
Provinzialen, Die
Composer(s): Bilse
10)
Sonnambula, La, selection
Composer(s): Bellini
11)
Pirata, Il, overture
Composer(s): Bellini
12)
Gruss ans Liebchen, op. 25
aka Gruss ans Liebchen galopp; Gruss aus Liebchen; Greetings to my love galop; Love's greeting; Greeting from love
Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]
13)
Vorwärts
aka Forward march
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 February 1868, 6.

“With 20 of the best musicians in New York.”