Robert Heller

Event Information

Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Variety / Vaudeville

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
21 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
22 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
23 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
24 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
25 Jun 1864, 1:45 PM
25 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Robert Heller
2)
Concert paraphrase on an operatic theme (Verdi's Ernani), op. A 138
aka Ernani
Composer(s): Liszt
3)
Nocturne, piano, unidentified
Composer(s): Döhler

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 June 1864.

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 June 1864, 6.
“Mr. Heller’s second programme will be repeated every evening this week, and probably for many weeks to come.”
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 20 June 1864, 4.

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 June 1864, 2.
“The ‘second-sight’ illusion, is, however, the feature of these performances, and is wholly unaccountable to persons who will not believe that the claims of the most enthusiastic psychologists are just and reasonable.”
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 June 1864, 4.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 June 1864, 7.

7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 June 1864.
Times.
8)
Review: New York Herald, 25 June 1864, 4.
“Heller continues his triumphant career.  Filled with the importance of his task—that of exposing humbug and demonstrating to what extent human ingenuity may reach without spiritual agency—he surpasses all his former efforts and makes the expose sweeping and unanswerable. . . . [A]s a pianist, he is really remarkable.”
9)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 July 1864, 94.
“Horace Greeley and Thurlow Weed are “said to be frequent visitors at Heller’s Salle Diabolique, and watch the man of tricks with great penetration.”