Metropolitan Fair: U.S. Sanitary Commission Benefit: Extra Performance

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Fair Union Square Music Hall

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 September 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Apr 1864, 6:00 PM

Program Details

Orchestra “of 40.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Soldatenchor; Soldier's march
Composer(s): Gounod

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 April 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 April 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 April 1864.

4)
Review: New-York Times, 13 April 1864, 4.
“The programme was excellent, and fully carried out.  The soldiers’ chorus from ‘Faust’ was heard here to even greater advantage than in the Opera, and was certainly better sung.”