Sacred Sunday Concert: 2nd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Manager / Director:
Leonard Grover

Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff

Price: $.50; $.75; $1 reserved

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 March 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Sep 1866, Evening

Program Details

Abt’s “Consecration of Sunday” was performed by only the men of the chorus.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Grover German Opera Company;  Franz Himmer;  F. Staudt [bass-baritone];  John Langenbach [tenor];  Joseph Weinlich;  Johanna Rotter;  Eugénie de Lussan;  Marie Frederici
2)
Rienzi, overture
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
"In the forest"
Composer(s): Kreutzer
Participants:  Joseph Weinlich
4)
"Adelaide," op. 46
aka Adelaida
Composer(s): Beethoven
Participants:  Johanna Rotter
5)
Tannhäuser, chorus
aka Tannhauser, chorus
Composer(s): Wagner
Participants:  Grover German Opera Company
6)
"Alone"
Composer(s): Storch
Participants:  Franz Himmer
7)
"Wanderer, Der," D. 489
Composer(s): Schubert
Text Author: Schmidt von Lübeck
Participants:  Marie Frederici
8)
Hebriden, Die, op. 26
aka The Hebrides; Fingal's Cave; Staffa, Fingal’s Cave; Fingalshöhle; Ouvertüre zur einsamen Insel
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
INTERMISSION
10)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 67, C minor. Scherzo
Composer(s): Beethoven
11)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 67, C minor. Allegro [finale]
Composer(s): Beethoven
12)
Huguenots, Les, duet
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants:  Joseph Weinlich;  Johanna Rotter
13)
"Consecration of Sunday"
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Grover German Opera Company, chorus
14)
Freischütz, Der, "Und ob die Wolke"
aka Freischutz, Der. Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle; And even if clouds; Agathe’s prayer; Preghiera
Composer(s): Weber
Participants:  Marie Frederici
15)
Fidelio, finale
Composer(s): Beethoven
Participants:  Grover German Opera Company;  F. Staudt [bass-baritone];  John Langenbach [tenor];  Joseph Weinlich;  Johanna Rotter;  Marie Frederici;  Franz Himmer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 September 1866, 7.

 “the perfect success achieved on the occasion of the first grand sacred concert on Sunday evening last, induces Mr. adolph neuendorf, Conductor of the Grand German Opera Company, to announce one more Grand Sacred Concert, one more grand sacred concert.”

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 September 1866.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 September 1866, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 September 1866, 7.

Includes program and performers.

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 September 1866, 4.

“The first concert drew a large and most respectable audience, and we are glad to find that our musical circles are taking proper interest in the success of the undertaking.”

6)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 19 September 1866, 105.

The Sunday concerts at Irving Hall and the Olympic Theatre have been very popular and promise to become truly excellent. At the Olympic Theatre almost all singers from the former German Opera perform, at Irving Hall the singers alternate. Last Sunday the recently arrived tenor H. Matheson and the fine artist Mrs. Johannsen performed. Supposedly the latter has accepted a position as vocal instructor at Anschütz’ Conservatory.

[Citation requires review]

7)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 29 September 1866, 319.

Brief. “In the second concert, Mme. Rotter was added to the list of singers…Both these series of Sunday concerts [the other being Thomas’s at Irving Hall], it would seem, are well attended.”