Robert Heller

Event Information

Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique

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

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
28 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
29 Jun 1864, 2:00 PM
29 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
30 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
01 Jul 1864, 8:00 PM
02 Jul 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)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 June 1864.
“Live Ghost.”
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 June 1864, 5.
“Mr. Robert Heller’s ‘second programme’ will be repeated again this week.  The popularity of this gentleman’s entertainment increases in spite of the rigors of Midsummer.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 June 1864.
“Last matinee this season.  None on Saturday.”
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 July 1864.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 July 1864.
“Heller, ‘the strange man on Broadway,’ begins the second week of his new programme, which is far ahead of programme No. one.  Heller brings his season to a close on the 4th of July . . . [and will remain closed] until September, when he re-opens his Salle Diabolique.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 02 July 1864, 95.
“Will positively close on July 4th, and re-open in September.”