Seventh Regiment Band Promenade Concert: 1st

Event Information

Venue(s):
Seventh Regiment Armory

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 August 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Oct 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

First of many Seventh Regiment promenade concerts to be given on alternate Saturday evenings from 10/28/65 to 03/03/66.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Seventh Regiment Band

2)

Esprit de corps

Composer(s): Gung'l

3)

"Rocked in the cradle of the deep"

Composer(s): Knight

Text Author: Willard

4)

Sweet Evelina

Composer(s): Parkhurst

5)

Semiramide, overture

Composer(s): Rossini

6)

Fantasie-polka

aka Fantaisie polka

Composer(s): Herzog

7)

Jone, selections

aka potpourri; pot pourri

Composer(s): Petrella

8)

aka Redova, La; Radowa, La [sic] - NYT

9)

Beautiful isle of the sea, [quickstep]

Composer(s): Grafulla

10)

Semiramide, "Serbami ognor sì fido"

Composer(s): Rossini

11)

Plaisirs allemands

Composer(s): Strauss

12)

Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, romanza

Composer(s): Donizetti

13)

Composer(s): Zabel

14)

Quickstep medley

Composer(s): Grafulla

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Post, 12 October 1865.

“The Seventh regiment promenade concerts will also take place this winter as heretofore at the armory.”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 October 1865, 7.

3)

Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 October 1865.

4)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 October 1865, 7.

5)

Review: New York Herald, 30 October 1865, 5.

“SEVENTH REGIMENT CONCERT.

The first promenade concert of the Seventh Regiment Band took place on Saturday evening at their splendid armory over Tompkins Market. The attendance, though not as large as at the opening of last season, probably owing to the uncertain state of the weather, was highly fashionable and select. The rooms of the different companies were thrown open for inspection, and were objects of much interest. Conspicuous and most interesting among the adornments were the memorials, which hung on the walls, of the dead soldiers who fell during the war. In the officers’ board room there was a magnificent portrait of Washington painted by Rembrandt Peale from the original; taken from life in 1795, presented to the Seventh regiment by Moses Tallman and Isaac Bell, Jr. The band, under the direction of Mr. Grafulla, performed in admirable style.”