Sacred Concert: German Hospital Benefit: 25th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Garten

Proprietor / Lessee:
Paul Falk

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 November 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Feb 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Mollenhauer's Triumphal march, Kerssen's "Fantasie," and Gounod's "Cortège" are all advertised as being performed "zum ersten Male" ("for the first time").

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Henry Schmitz [French horn]
2)
Triumphal march
aka Grand march triumphale
Composer(s): Mollenhauer [viola-vn]
3)
Martha, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
4)
Schwimmer, Die, op. 99
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Faust, selections [arr. Bergmann]
aka Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Egmont, [incidental music]. Overture
aka Egmont overture; Goethe's Egmont
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Variations with echo, horn
Composer(s): Schmitz [French horn]
Participants:  Henry Schmitz [French horn]
9)
Huguenots, Les, "Conjuration et bénédiction des poignards"
aka Schwer und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Schwerterweihe; Gebet und Waffenweihe; Prayer and Presentation of Weapons; Consecration of the swords; Benediction of the daggers
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Deschamps
10)
[Illegible] Fantasie, orchestra
Composer(s): Kerssen
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Reine de Saba, La, Marche et cortège
aka March and Cortege; Grand march
Composer(s): Gounod
13)
Puritani, I, quartet
Composer(s): Bellini
14)
Fantasie-polka
aka Fantaisie polka
Composer(s): Herzog
15)
Roi d’Yvetot, Le, overture
aka König von Yvetot, Der
Composer(s): Adam

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 27 February 1864.
Some works will be performed for the first time.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 February 1864, 8.

3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 February 1864, 8.

Kerssen’s fantasy was a new piece.  It conveys several musical images: distant thunder, a morning in the Alps of the Steyermark, a shepherd’s work with his herd, a prayer of the shepherd, a church festival with a social dance and, finally, the gradual ending of the festivities in the evening.  The composition is fresh and lively, never ordinary, and easily understandable.  All the numbers on the program were conducted with precision and energy by Mr. Bergmann.