Presentation Festival in Aid of the Destitute Children of Soldiers and Sailors

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $1

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 January 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Dec 1866, Evening

Program Details

Vocal and instrumental concert of the "Grand Presentation Festival in aid of the Maintenance and Education of the Destitute Children of our Soldiers and Sailors."

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
3)
Composer(s): Schubert
Participants:  Sherwood C. Campbell
4)
aka Träume auf dem Ozean Waeltzer; Dreams of the ocean waltz; Dreams on the ocean; Rêves sur l'océan; Traume auf dem Ozean
Composer(s): Gung'l
5)
aka Flower song; Flower aria
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Fannie E. Goodwin
6)
aka Poptpourri from Il Trovatore
Composer(s): Verdi
7)
Composer(s): Koppitz
8)
Composer(s): Russell
Text Author: Benjamin
Participants:  Sherwood C. Campbell
9)
Composer(s): Bousquet
10)
Composer(s): Ganz
Participants:  Fannie E. Goodwin
11)
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
aka See the pale moon; Luna bianca; Una sera d’amore; Sweetly the moonlight gleaming
Composer(s): Campana
13)
aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 November 1866, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 07 December 1866.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1866, 1.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 December 1866, 6.

Includes program.