Annual Light Guard Ball
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
Price: $3
Event Type:
Band
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
29 August 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
23 Jan 1865, EveningProgram Details
Dodworth Band includes Dodworth’s Promenade Band and Dodworth’s Quadrille Band.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
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“The demand for tickets is already so large that it has been found desirable to sell the principal boxes at auction.”
5)
“[I]t is anticipated that the event will prove the most brilliant reunion of the season.”
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“Twenty-four dances and as many promenade pieces composed the programme, which kept the dancers busy until nearly four o’clock.”
8)
“Two excellent bands, one promenade and one quadrille, under the direction of Harvey B. Dodworth, discoursed the choicest music. . . . Enjoyment was everywhere visible.”
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“The annual ball of the Light Guard (Company G, 71st Regiment, N.Y.S.N.G) was held last evening at the Academy of Music, and, in point of numbers and elegance, fully equaled any of its predecessors. The decorations were as usual in good taste. At the upper end of the room was raised dais on which was a field piece, a stack of muskets, and other military paraphernalia, surmounted by a gas-jet on which were the words, ‘Light Guard, organized 1827’ and above, a hand grasping a hatchet. The body of the house was festooned with the national colors and from the various tiers were suspended cages containing canaries making the air vocal with their music. Two full bands were present, under the leadership of Harvey Dodworth, and the music furnished during the evening was of the very best description.”