Organ and Orpheonist Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Madison Avenue Baptist Church

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Choral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 July 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Mar 1864, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Boys' Choir, unidentified;  Charles Jerome Hopkins;  Adelina Motte;  J. L. [Baritone, church singer] Lewis

Citations

1)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 30 March 1864.
Address.  This remarkable organist has undertaken to popularize in the United States the Orphéon societies, which have been quite successful in France.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 30 March 1864, 2.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 March 1864.

4)
Review: New York Post, 31 March 1864, 2.

Brief and part of review of multiple performances. “Mr. Hopkins’s Orpheon Concert at the Madison avenue Baptist Church was but poorly attended, but the singing by the boy choir was excellent.”

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 09 April 1864, 411.
“The attendance was good, and the performances pleasing to admirers of church music.”