Elizabeth Greenfield Concert at Stuyvesant Institute

Event Information

Venue(s):
Stuyvesant Institute

Manager / Director:
James J. Spelman

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Nov 1862

Program Details

An unidentified pupil of Ms. Greenfield also performed.

An attempt to create a company of African-American minstrels?

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield;  Professor Kennedy [piano] (piano)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 November 1862, 238.
“[W] e have to record the initiatory attempt to organize a regular band of ‘warranted’ darky minstrels ‘in our midst.’ At present the affair takes a very modest form, merely announcing a concert or two, just as straws to find out how the wind blows in Broadway. Therefore, on the 5th, Manager James J. Spelman, having made an engagement with Miss E.T. Greenfield (commonly called ‘the Black Swan’). . . . All right. Another revolution for our record. Even if the main idea of a band of darky minstrels should not be encouraged as a permanent institution in this city, Miss Greenfield’s success in her former concertizing tours, at home or abroad, fully justifies J.J. Spelman for trying ‘a spell of good luck.’”