Teutonia Maennerchor Masquerade Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Germania Assembly Rooms

Price: $3 for a gentleman and lady, and $1 for each extra lady’s ticket

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 December 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Feb 1867, Evening

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 February 1867, 1.
2)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 09 March 1867, 489.

The Teutonia Men’s Chorus held its annual masked ball at the Germania Assembly.  Among the detailed description of the decorations for this event, one is poignant: a police hat hanging from the ceiling in the center of the room with the inscription: “Look at me at 12 p.m.”  On the beat of midnight the police hat vanished into the ceiling and a huge metropolitan appeared.