Event Information
Venue(s):
Irving Hall
Price: $1.00
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)
Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
18 April 2020
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
01 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Testimonial Concert to Isaiah W. Gongler.
Gongler was a poet and musician, as well as the composer of “several very meritorious pieces.†He was wounded while serving with the 127th New York Volunteers.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 June 1865, 3.
Gongler is a musician and poet who returned severely wounded from the war.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 June 1865, 7.
Lists Morgan as a pianist.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 29 June 1865, 4.
“[F]or the benefit of Isaiah W. Gongler, of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh New York Volunteers, a wounded soldier, poet and musician. Mr. Gongler has published several very meritorious compositions. He is much disabled by a wound received at the battle of Honey Hill.”