Wallack's Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Choral, Play With Music, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 January 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Sep 1862, 8:00 PM

Program Details



According to R: NYH 09/08/62, p.5, Corcoran visited on Saturday. Was this in addition to or instead of the advertised Thursday visit?

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Star spangled banned
Composer(s): Smith
Text Author: Key
4)
Text Author: Buckstone
8)
aka Irish brigade battle piece
Composer(s): Unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 September 1862, 7.
Visit to Wallack’s by Brigadier General Michael Corcoran. “A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM will be sung by MRS. W.J. FLORENCE, assisted by a carefully selected and POWERFUL CHORUS.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 September 1862, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 September 1862, 7.
Visit to Wallack’s by Brigadier General Michael Corcoran. “A new NATIONAL HYMN, composed expressly for the occasion, will be sung by Mrs. W.J. Florence, aided by a powerful chorus.”
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 September 1862, 7.
Program. “The General is expected to arrive about eight o’clock. He will be conducted to his box . . . and KOPPITTZ’S GRAND ORCHESTRA will perform THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.”
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 04 September 1862, 4.