Sommernachts-Fest

Event Information

Venue(s):
Funk’s Union Park

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Aug 1866, Evening

Program Details

Hosted by the New York Sing Academie.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  New Yorker Sing Academie;  Euphonia Gesangverein
2)
Neujahrslied, selections
Composer(s): Schumann
3)
Work, vocal, unidentified
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
4)
Songs, unidentified
aka New songs; Foreign airs by native artists
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Euphonia Gesangverein

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 August 1866.
2)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 03 August 1866, 8.

     Several hundred people came to see the event despite the intermittent rain. The event moved into the lobby of a hotel when the rain did not cease. The performers did as well as possible under the circumstances.