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
4)
aka Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
8)
aka Drommebilleder;
Dromme Billeder ;
Traumbilder ;
Visions in a Dream;
Pictures of dreams;
Frambileter;
Fraumbileter;
Cloud pictures;
Dissolving views;
Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
12)
Composer(s): Wittmann
13)
aka Potpourri from Martha
Composer(s): Flotow
14)
Composer(s): Fahrbach
Citations
1)
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.”
2)
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.