Benefit Concert for Infirm Musicians

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Rooms

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
Joseph Noll
Carl Bergmann
Jim Unger [cond.]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 July 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 May 1864, Evening

Program Details

The concert was performed in two parts.

60-Person Orchestra.


Hosted by the Arion and Teutonia Gesangvereins. Bergmann is listed as a conductor in AD: NYSZ 05/22/64 but not listed in subsequent ads. He is, however, credited in the program as an arranger.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Unidentified
4)
aka Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
5)
Composer(s): Queisser
7)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
8)
aka Grande Fantaisie pour le violoncelle avec accompagnement, sur un thême favori de Robert le Diable
Composer(s): Kummer
9)
Composer(s): Unidentified
11)
aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
12)
Composer(s): Weber
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 May 1864.

Locations (shops, mostly) to buy tickets included. 

Mentions Bergmann as a director; he is dropped in the subsequent ads.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 May 1864.

Program included.  Also mentions a rehearsal for the orchestra at 10 am, but does not invite the public to attend.