Winter Garden

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Conductor(s):
Robert August Stoepel

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
05 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
06 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
07 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
08 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM
09 Sep 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  John S. Clarke [actor]
2)
Everybody’s friend
Text Author: Coyne
3)
Toodles, The
aka Broken heart; Farmer's daughter
Text Author: Raymond
4)
Fantasia on Meyerbeer's L'Africaine
Composer(s): Stoepel

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 September 1865.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 September 1865.

“The Orchestra, under the direction of the distinguished composer and conductor, Mr. Robert Stoepel, will perform a variety of new music including, for the first time in New York, a Grand Fantasia, with solos, on Meyerbeer’s new opera ‘L’Africane,’ by R. Stoepel.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 September 1865, 4.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 07 September 1865, 4.

No mention of music.  “Winter Garden.  The season was inaugurated brilliantly at this theatre last night. . . . [T]he house was crowded with an audience unquestionably metropolitan in character—an audience as daintily bonneted and gloved and appreciative as any that the season will see.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Post, 07 September 1865.
6)
Review: New York Post, 07 September 1865, 4.

Music not mentioned; Clarke noted as a favorite, drawing “a full and appreciative audience.”

7)
Review: New-York Times, 07 September 1865, 5.

Music not mentioned.

8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 September 1865.

Includes excerpts from reviews in the Herald, the Times, and the World, all focusing on Clarke.  No mention of music.

9)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 09 September 1865.
10)
Review: New York Herald, 09 September 1865, 4.

“[C]rowded to overflowing.”

11)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 September 1865, 182.

No music mentioned. “When Mr. Clarke appeared the applause was equal to anything we ever before heard bestowed upon any artiste.  The applause lasted for several minutes, and Mr. Clarke attempted to speak, but the furore grew louder.  It was a great triumph.”