Ye Ancient Musick

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Price: $.25; $.50 reserved; $.15 children

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 April 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM
03 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

"1776. Ye Ancient Musick. 1864."

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Brother Jonathan's Old Folks;  Orchestra, unidentified;  Anne E. Robinson;  Frank Lamb;  William R. Moses

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 February 1864, 7.

“Wednesday and Thursday evenings, March 2 and 3.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 29 February 1864, 5.

“[F]irst appearance.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 March 1864.

Performers’ names.  “Brother Jonathan’s Old Folks.  Thirty ladies and gentlemen in costume of ye olden time, including their grand orchestra. . . . Good old fashioned music, sacred, patriotic, sentimental, and humorous selections.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 March 1864, 7.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 05 March 1864, 371.

“We are to have an opportunity to spend a couple of evenings this week with ‘Brother Jonathan’s Old Folks,’ said to be the largest old folks company in the Union. They number thirty people, and among the most prominent members are Mrs. Anne E. Robinson, Mr. Frank Lamb and Wm. R. Moses. This will be the first appearance of these old codgers in New York. Bless us, what they have missed by not coming here before the elderly dodge had become somewhat overdone.”