Private Concert for the Benefit of the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair

Event Information

Venue(s):

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 January 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Feb 1864

Program Details



Time and Venue are unknown.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Männer-Quartet;  Jennie Kempton;  Pietro Centemeri;  Carl Bergmann;  Richard [pianist] Hoffman;  William Scharfenberg;  Joseph [violinist] Burke;  Mrs. Wilson;  Lucy Simons
2)
Trio, unidentified
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Carl Bergmann;  William Scharfenberg;  Joseph [violinist] Burke

Citations

1)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 20 February 1864, 192.

Brief mention. “The committee having in charge the Musical Department of the great Metropolitan Sanitary fair . . . have already instituted, among other plans, a series of private concerts for the benefit of the Fair. The first took place on Saturday, the 6th.”