Salle Diabolique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique

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

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 May 1864, 8:00 PM
24 May 1864, 8:00 PM
25 May 1864, 8:00 PM
26 May 1864, 8:00 PM
27 May 1864, 8:00 PM
28 May 1864, 2:00 PM
28 May 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Robert Heller
2)
Variations on Home, sweet home, op. 72
aka Home sweet home
Composer(s): Thalberg
3)
Fantasia on Donizetti's Lucie de Lamermoor, op. 8
Composer(s): Prudent

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 May 1864.
“Programme No. 1 will be repeated one more week.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 May 1864, 7.
“Magic’s Most Illusory Deeds.  Music’s Most Entrancing Charms.  Mirth’s Most Hilarious Seasoning.”
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 May 1864, 8.
“Heller’s success is so great that programme No. 1 has to be repeated for one week longer.  Any programme would suffice such a witty and amusing exponent.”
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 May 1864, 4.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 28 May 1864, 54.

6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 28 May 1864, 55.

7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 May 1864.

8)
Review: New York Post, 30 May 1864, 2.
“[H]is pretty little theatre is nightly crowded.  Heller’s music is as good as his magic.”