Mr. Dempster's Musical Entertainment

Event Information

Venue(s):
Dodworth's Hall

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Songs from Tennyson’s The Princess (“The Bugle Song,” “Tears, Idle Tears,” “O, Heard through Rolling Drums,” “Home they Brought Her Warrior Dead,” and “Ask Me No More”)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  William Richardson Dempster
2)
Princess, The, songs
Composer(s): Unidentified
Text Author: Tennyson
3)
"Rainy day, The"
Composer(s): Dempster
Text Author: Longfellow
4)
"Oh, why does the white man follow my path"
aka Song of the Indian hunter
Composer(s): Dempster
Text Author: Cook [lyricist]
5)
May Queen, The
Composer(s): Dempster
Text Author: Tennyson

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 October 1863, 9.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 29 October 1863.

“[P]resenting an attractive programme of songs and ballads.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 October 1863, 1.
Last night.