“Picnic and Summer Night’s Festival and Flag Inauguration” Concert and Dance

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cremorne Gardens [72nd St.]

Conductor(s):
Charles Mangold [cond./piano/comp.]

Event Type:
Band, Choral, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 August 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jun 1864, All Day

Program Details

Festival begins at 12; Concert at 2 pm, with the dance to follow.

The concert was performed in two parts.

Includes Presentation of the Flag before the last piece.

Sponsored by the Gesangvereins: Euphonia, Social Reform Gesangverein, Germania, Loreley Männerchor, Frohsten, Blumenthal Liederkranz, Bergischer Männerchor

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Melomanen und Social Gesangsverein;  Euphonia Männerchor;  Heidenreich’sche Kapelle ;  Orchestra, unidentified;  Social Reformer Gesangverein
2)
Overture, unidentified [generic]
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified
3)
"Über die Berge "
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Melomanen und Social Gesangsverein
4)
"Abendlied"
Composer(s): Schadler
Participants:  Euphonia Männerchor
5)
"Sängers Morgenfahrten "
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Social Reformer Gesangverein
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Overture, unidentified [generic]
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified
8)
"Vaterlandslied"
Composer(s): Arr
Participants:  Social Reformer Gesangverein
9)
"Ständchen"
Composer(s): Bene
Participants:  Social Reformer Gesangverein
10)
"Gute Nacht"
Composer(s): Graner
Participants:  Euphonia Männerchor
11)
"Fahnenlied"
aka Flag song
Composer(s): Mangold [cond./piano/comp.]

Citations

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

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 June 1864, 8.
Includes program.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 June 1864, 8.
The conductor of the ‘Melomanen Choir,’ Mr. Mangold, is also the composer of the flag inauguration song, “Fahnenlied der Melomanen.”  The composition has a pleasant melody and is well harmonized.