Bergmann Sacred Concert: 15th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Garten

Proprietor / Lessee:
Paul Falk

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Price: $.15 for men; free for women

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Dec 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Lumbye: “Traumbilder Potpourri” performed for the first time and includes a zither solo.

Weber: “Quartet for four horns” performed for the first time.

Gounod: Faust, selections - by request, seventh time.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
3)
aka Schwer und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Schwerterweihe; Gebet und Waffenweihe; Prayer and Presentation of Weapons; Consecration of the swords; Benediction of the daggers
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Deschamps
4)
aka Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
6)
Composer(s): Adam
7)
Composer(s): Kummer
Participants:  Herr Efler
8)
aka Drommebilleder; Drømme Billeder fantasi; Traumbilder potpourri; Traumbilder selections; Traumbilder fantasie; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter
Composer(s): Lumbye
9)
Composer(s): Weber
11)
Composer(s): Auber
12)
Composer(s): Wittmann
13)
aka Potpourri from Martha
Composer(s): Flotow
14)
Composer(s): Fahrbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 December 1863.

Includes six small ads all the way through pg. 8, all saying that this will be the best concert of the season. This is an uncommon advertising strategy for the NYSZ.

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 December 1863, 8.

“Note to the Public: Because of the great throngs at his Sunday concerts, the undersigned presumes to make the honorable gentlemen accompanied by ladies aware that it is possible to hold seats for ladies only at the beginning of the concert.”