Dempster Ballad Entertainment

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Price: $1

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Apr 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  William Richardson Dempster
2)
May Queen, The
Composer(s): Dempster
Text Author: Tennyson

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 April 1865.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 April 1865.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 10 April 1865.

     “Mr. Dempster, the well-known vocalist, will give at Irving Hall on Thursday evening next, one of his admired ballad entertainments—the first since his return from Europe.”

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 April 1865, 4.

     “Mr. Dempster, who has held so long a place in popular esteem as a ballad singer, gives a concert at Irving Hall to-morrow evening.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 April 1865, 7.

     “Mr. Dempster will give an entertainment of his most popular songs and ballads.”

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 April 1865, 4.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 April 1865.

     “Mr. Dempster, the popular composer, gave a concert at Irving Hall on the 13th inst., and on the 15th sailed for Europe.”