Columbia College Class Day

Event Information

Venue(s):
Columbia College

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Jun 1865, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Helmsmüller's Band
2)
Don Giovanni, overture
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Mozart
3)
Ruck-ruck
Composer(s): Helmsmüller
4)
Fra Diavolo, selection
Composer(s): Auber
5)
Macbeth, brindisi
Composer(s): Verdi
6)
"Marching along"
7)
Destino
aka Forza del destino gallop
Composer(s): Helmsmüller
8)
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, selection
Composer(s): Donizetti
9)
Colonnen, op. 262
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
"Yankee Doodle"
Composer(s): Traditional
11)
Wildfang, Der, op. 119
aka Wildbary; Wilde yagd
Composer(s): Faust
12)
Deutsche, op. 220
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
"When Johnny comes marching home"
aka Soldier's return march
Composer(s): Gilmore
14)
Jone, selection
Composer(s): Petrella
15)
Petroleum
Composer(s): La Fleur
16)
Rosen ohne Dornen, op. 166
Composer(s): Strauss
17)
Rosebud
Composer(s): Helmsmüller
18)
"Benny Havens, Oh!"
Composer(s): O'Brien
19)
"Auld lang syne"
aka Old lang syne
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Burns

Citations

1)
Review: New York Herald, 10 June 1865, 5.

     Program.  Includes lyrics to the class song, “Marching Along.”  “[I]nvitations to be present were sent to about three hundred or four hundred of our most refined citizens, and with few exceptions they all attended the celebration. . . . [There was a] fine band that supplied the music. . . .

     [The verse and chorus of “Marching Along.”]  There were about a dozen more verses of this song, all equal to the one given above, and sung very well, by the class. . . .

     These exercises were succeeded by terpsichorean performances, which were kept up with considerable grace and spirit till an advanced hour of the evening.”

2)
Review: New-York Times, 10 June 1865, 8.

     “Between each of these [orations], agreeable music was given by Helmsmuller’s Band.  A class song was sung, a smoking song, one or two other songs, and at last a parting song, all spiritedly given by the class. . . .

     During a brief interruption or two caused by small spurts of rain, dancing in the college class rooms was found an eminently practicable substitute for oratory and music.  A bevy of very lovely young ladies—and some extremely pleasant looking older ones, too—were present as friends of the departing class; and if the young gentlemen have as good taste in selecting professions as in selecting female friends, their success in life is sure.”