Sunday Evening Concert: 18th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Manager / Director:
H. L. [impressario] Bateman
Lafayette F. Harrison

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

Price: $.50; $1 reserved

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 January 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Dec 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Grimm
3)
Composer(s): Wagner
4)
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
5)
Composer(s): Schubert
6)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
7)
aka Life
Composer(s): Hopkins
8)
aka Work, flute, unidentified
Participants:  Eduard Heindl
9)
aka Phantasy
Composer(s): Schmitz [French horn]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 December 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 29 December 1866, 4.

"The eighteenth Sunday concert will take place at Steinway Hall to-morrow evening. Several well-known artists will appear, and Theodore Thomas's popular orchestra will perform choice selections appropriate to the occasion."

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 December 1866.

Includes program.

4)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 05 January 1867, 344.

Grimm’s suite was celebrated by the audience. Although not an especially deep or great work, the composition is clearly written by a skillful and understanding musician and is a highly respectable work.