Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
06 Mar 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
A calesthenics exercise preceded the acrobatic act of Fitzmeier and Heintz.
Der Kunstreiter was spoken by the gymnnast F. vom Hofe.
"Die Mutter des Kosaken," a poem by Prutz, was recited by Jacob Heintz before Lumbye's Traumbilder.
Before the "Soldier's Chorus" from Faust, Heintz and Fitzmeier performed "exercises on a twenty-foot ladder" and there was a "pyramid creation."
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Freischutz overture
Composer(s): Weber
5)
aka Guglielmo Tell;
William Tell;
Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
8)
aka Duett, "Martha"
Composer(s): Flotow
9)
aka Drommebilleder;
Dromme Billeder ;
Traumbilder ;
Visions in a Dream;
Pictures of dreams;
Frambileter;
Fraumbileter;
Cloud pictures;
Dissolving views;
Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
11)
aka Soldatenchor;
Soldier's march
Composer(s): Gounod
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 February 1864, 8.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 06 March 1864.