Twenty-Second Regiment Promenade Concert

     “The promenade concerts of the Twenty-second and the Seventh regiments, last Saturday night, were as enjoyable as usual, and were largely attended by the members of the regiments and their friends.”

     “These favorite military organizations hold pleasant reunions at their respective armories nearly every Saturday night n the shape of promenade concerts. The uninviting state of the streets on Saturday last deterred many of the lady friends of both regiments from attending, but the fair ones were very worthily represented. The spacious armory of the Twenty-second, at the corner of Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street, under the direction of Colonel Aspinwall, presented a most brilliant appearance. On a raised platform in the middle of the immense promenade room, Dodworth’s full regimental band performed an admirable selection of pieces by Kuhnau, Wagner and other eminent composers.The company rooms were also thrown open for the occasion, and each had its little group of ladies and their attendant cavaliers. The concert was closed about ten o’clock. The most remarkable pieces on the programme were selections from the Tannhauser and Don Sebastian.

       They were very well rendered by the band, if we may except a rather undue prominence of drums, cymbals and trombones and feebleness in the subjects, which were in many places entirely drowned by the formidable bass that accompanied them.”