Private Reception

Event Information

Venue(s):
Residence of Barnard

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 November 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Jan 1866, Evening

Program Details

Performers included members of the Trinity Boys Choir.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  M. Du Barry [vocal]
2)
Don Giovanni, "Il mio tesoro"
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  M. Du Barry [vocal]

Citations

1)
: Kellogg, Gertrude. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of Gertrude Kellogg, transcribed by Katherine K. Preston, amplified by Christopher Bruhn., 23 January 1866.

     “went in the evening to one of Barnard's Receptions, 49th St.  Rooms well filled B their aspect refined and elegant.  B. and his wife ‘entertain’ with a very simple, agreeable heartiness of manner.  I esteem him more and more highly. . . A lot of Trinity Chorister boys, who sang as effectively as they could without the tenors or basses of the choir, who made default. . . M. Du Barry (?) sang ‘Il mio tesoro’ very well, tho annoyed and put out by the gabble around him, and no wonder.  Our civilization is still of low grade.  An assemblage of average New Yorkers will gossip and cackle during one of Mozart's melodies or Beethoven=s symphonies, and thus display not only indifference to the noblest art, but brutal disregard to the minority that appreciates and enjoys it.”