Event Information
Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Price: $.50 cents; $1 reserved
Performance Forces:
Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
20 October 2015
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
20 Dec 1866, Evening
Program Details
Positively last appearance.
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Ye banks and braes a bonny Doon
Composer(s): Traditional
3)
aka Of a' the airts the wind can blow
Composer(s): Traditional
4)
aka Duncan Grey;
Wooing of Duncan Gray
Composer(s): Traditional
5)
aka Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
Composer(s): Traditional
6)
aka Last May a braw moor
Composer(s): Traditional
7)
aka Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
Composer(s): Unknown composer
9)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
Composer(s): Traditional
12)
aka Your hand is cauld as snaw
Composer(s): Aytoun
13)
aka Land of the loyal;
Land of the leal
Composer(s): Traditional
14)
aka Tulloch Gorum
Composer(s): Traditional
15)
Composer(s): Clarke-Whitfield
16)
aka Old lang syne
Composer(s): Traditional
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 December 1866.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 17 December 1866, 5.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 December 1866, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 December 1866, 7.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 December 1866, 4.
6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 December 1866, 4.
7)
Review: New York Post, 21 December 1866.
Mr. Kennedy gave last evening, at Steinway Hall, his third ‘vocal illustration of the national minstrelsy of Scotland,’ to a very large and appreciative audience. The first part of the programme comprised some of the songs of Robert Burns. The song of the Honeymoon, ‘Of a’ the airs the wind can blow,’ was very beautifully rendered. Mr. Kennedy’s description of wooing in the olden time was exceedingly amusing. ‘The Wooing of Duncan Gray,’ which followed, was deservedly encored, as was also that stirring war-song, ‘Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled.’ A recital of ‘Tam o’Shanter,’ followed by a very pretty fantasia on the piano by Miss Kennedy, finished the first part of the programme. ”
