Benefit Concert for Provisions for the Soldiers

Event Information

Venue(s):
Atlantic Garten [through 7/67]

Conductor(s):
Karl Kerssen

Price: $.25 for a man with a woman

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 December 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Orchestra included the “25 best musicians in New York.”

The selections from Gounod's Faust were given by popular demand.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Atlantic Garten, orchestra [through 7-67]
2)
Schönsten Augen, Die
Composer(s): Hamm
3)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
4)
Träume auf dem Ozean, op. 80
aka Träume auf dem Ozean Waeltzer; Dreams of the ocean waltz; Dreams on the ocean; Rêves sur l'océan; Traume auf dem Ozean
Composer(s): Gung'l
5)
Fantasie on Auber's La muette de Portici
Composer(s): Kerssen
6)
Krieges-Galopp
aka Driegs
Composer(s): Kerssen
7)
INTERMISSION
8)
Fidelio, overture, unidentified
aka Leonore overture, unidentified
Composer(s): Beethoven
9)
Krolls Ballklänge
aka Krolls balklange: vals for salonorkester; Kroll's Ball Klange; Krolls Ball Klange; The celebrated Kroll's Ballklänge waltzes; Kroll's Bell-Klange
Composer(s): Lumbye
10)
Faust, selections
aka Grand Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
11)
Grosse Parade, Die
Composer(s): Nassad
12)
INTERMISSION
13)
Nachtlager in Granada, Das, overture
Composer(s): Kreutzer
14)
Mephisto quadrille
Composer(s): Kreutzer
15)
Ballo in maschera, Un, selections
aka Masked Ball, A; potpourri
Composer(s): Verdi
16)
Etwas Kleines, op. 190
Composer(s): Strauss
17)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, "Hochzeitsmarsch"
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 June 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 17 June 1864.
Program and more complete information included.