Pfingst-Montag Celebration

Event Information

Venue(s):
Funk’s Union Park

Event Type:
Band, Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jun 1865, All Day

Program Details

At 11 a.m., the singing societies congregated at Beethoven Hall on 6th Street, marched in a parade through “various streets,” and then proceeded to Funk’s Union Park.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lyrique;  Thüringer Sängerbund;  Hirschmann’s Band;  New Yorker Liedertafel;  Frohsinn Gesangverein;  Beethoven Männerchor;  Union Männerchor;  Concordia Männerchor;  Liedertafel der Vereinigten Socialreformer

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Times, 06 June 1865, 2.

     “The New-York Liedertafel celebrated the day at Funk’s Union Park . . . where song, dance and music formed the programme of the day.”

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 06 June 1865, 6.

     “The people there were not so numerous as at the Jones Wood.”