Barnum's American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Conductor(s):
William T. Peterschen

Price: $.25; .15 children under ten

Event Type:
Play With Music, Orchestral, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Sep 1862, All Day
09 Sep 1862, All Day
10 Sep 1862, All Day
11 Sep 1862, All Day
12 Sep 1862, All Day
13 Sep 1862, All Day

Program Details

Included other non-musical acts.

Entre acts: “Popular music of the day”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's American Museum, orchestra;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison
2)
Claude Marcel; or, The idiot of Tarbes
Composer(s): Peterschen
Text Author: Grangé, Thiboust
3)
"Hasten, then, o’er the woodland path, while the shades of night are falling"
Composer(s): Peterschen
4)
Roi d’Yvetot, Le, overture
aka König von Yvetot, Der
Composer(s): Adam

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 September 1862, 7.
“A FULL, EFFICIENT AND BRILLIANT ORCHESTRA, selected from the most eminent instrumentalists in the City, and conducted by W.T. PETERSCHEN, MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND COMPOSER.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 September 1862, 7.
Full cast, plot synopsis, list of performers.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 September 1862, 7.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 08 September 1862, 5.