Melo-Chorean Society: Annual Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 May 1865, Evening

Program Details

By invitation only. Originally scheduled for April 17, 1865, but postponed because of Lincoln’s assassination.

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 27 March 1865, 4.

      “The Annual Ball of the Melo-Chorean Society takes place at Irving Hall on Easter Monday, the 17th April. This year it will be purely an invitation ball, and those who attend it must be in fancy dress or mask and domino. The Melo-Chorean Society is composed of critics, literary people, and artists—musical and dramatic—and the congregation that will be present on Easter Monday will astonish the natives. The arrangements are on the most liberal scale, and there is no doubt that the ball will be the most brilliant of the season.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 April 1865, 1.

      “The Melo-Chorean ball was to have taken place on Monday next, but the committee have postponed it until Monday, May 1.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 April 1865, 7.

      “In view of the melancholy affliction of the whole Nation by the death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, the above Ball is postponed until Monday Evening, May 1. By order of the Committee.”

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 01 May 1865, 5.

      “At Irving Hall to-night, the great Melo-Chorean Ball, postponed from Easter Monday, but none the less welcome now.”