Grand Picnic

Event Information

Venue(s):
Funk’s Union Park

Conductor(s):
Balthasar Kissenberth
Franz Krüger

Price: $.25 for a man and a woman

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Jul 1866, 1:00 PM

Program Details

Hosted by the Uhlandbund Gesangverein.

Festival of German Societies.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Uhlandbund Gesangverein
3)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Uhlandbund Gesangverein
4)
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Beethoven Männerchor
5)
aka Drei Glaser
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Beethoven Männerchor

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 July 1866.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 17 July 1866, 8.

“At Funk’s Union Park, . . . about a dozen German societies yesterday were engaged in a series of festivities and social and musical exercises, which were very creditable.

The festival had been arranged under the auspices of the Uhland Bund, who during the afternoon rendered several favorite compositions, among others and favorite songs entitled ‘Am Rhein’ and ‘Die Schoene Muellerin,’ which were executed in a style which gave general satisfaction. The Uhland Bund is a prominent German musical society, which numbers about eighty active members and as many passive members. The conductor, Mr. Krueger, and the Secretary of the Society have been far the most instrumental in making the Uhland Bund a first class musical association. [List of other participating societies follows] All these societies were engaged in vocal exercises, and the Beethoven Maenner Chor men, as usual, distinguished themselves. They sang the song of the Muellerin, of Abt, and Die Drei Glaeser, which are favorite compositions, and were rendered with the usual perfection. The festivities were of a most enjoyable character and were brought to a successful conclusion.”