Gustavus Geary’s Annual Ballad Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Price: $.50

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Nov 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Concert in two parts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Oh Maritana
Composer(s): Wallace
Participants:  Gustavus Geary;  Mina Geary
3)
aka Thou art so near and yet so far ; Beloved star; Thou art so near
Composer(s): Reichardt [composer]
Text Author: Oxenford
Participants:  Gustavus Geary
4)
aka Elly Mavourneen
Composer(s): Crouch [composer-cello]
Participants:  Mary E. Hawley
6)
Composer(s): Macfarren [composer]
Participants:  Mina Geary
7)
Composer(s): Moore
Participants:  Gustavus Geary
8)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Gustavus Geary;  Mina Geary
10)
Composer(s): Fioravanti
11)
Composer(s): Morgan
Participants:  George Washbourne Morgan
12)
aka Letzte Rose
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Moore
Participants:  Mina Geary
13)
aka Twas a cold winter night; Katie Avourneen
Composer(s): Johnson
14)
aka The Three fishers;
Composer(s): Hullah
Text Author: Kingsley
Participants:  Mary E. Hawley
16)
aka Harp that once thro' Tara's halls, The
Composer(s): Stevenson
Text Author: Moore
Participants:  Gustavus Geary

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 October 1863, 1.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 November 1863.
Program and performers
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 November 1863, 7.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 November 1863.
“Grand annual ballad concert.”
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 November 1863.

“G.W. Morgan will perform on a Steinway grand pianoforte a FANTASIA on Irish airs.”

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 November 1863, 7.