New York Free Academy Eleventh Annual Commencement and Literary Exercises with Musical Interludes

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 November 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Oct 1863, 6:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dodworth Band
2)
Alessandro Stradella, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
3)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
4)
Nabucco, "Immenso Jehova"
aka Nabuco
Composer(s): Verdi
5)
Violette, La
aka Violetta
Composer(s): Faust
6)
Satanella; or, The power of love, selection
Composer(s): Balfe
7)
Quickstep on Lucia di Lammermoor
aka March on Lucia di Lammermoor
Composer(s): Dodworth
8)
Caledonian melodies
aka Caledonian airs
Composer(s): Jullien
9)
Attila, selections
Composer(s): Verdi
10)
Enchantress, The, quickstep
Composer(s): Balfe
11)
Rigoletto, "Bella figlia dell'amore"
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
12)
Postillon de Lonjumeau, Le, selections

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Times, 07 October 1863, 8.

Includes full program. 

“The Eleventh Annual Commencement of the New-York Free Academy took place last evening . . . before an immense concourse of people, a vast majority of whom were ladies. . . .

[The exercises were interluded] by the fine performances of Dodworth’s Band.”