Songs of Scotland: A Night with Burns

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Manager / Director:
Lafayette F. Harrison

Price: $.50; reserved seat, $.50 extra

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Apr 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  David [Scottish singer] Kennedy;  Helen Kennedy [piano-soprano]
2)
"Tam o’ Shanter"
Text Author: Burns
Participants:  David [Scottish singer] Kennedy
3)
"Ye banks and braes of bonnie Doon"
aka Ye banks and braes a bonny Doon
Composer(s): Traditional
4)
"John Anderson, my Jo"
Composer(s): Kozeluch
Text Author: Burns
5)
"Of a’ the airts the winds can blaw"
aka Of a' the airts the wind can blow
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Burns
6)
"Afton water"
aka Aften water
Text Author: Burns
7)
"Man's a man for a' that, A"
Composer(s): Dempster
Text Author: Burns
8)
"Highland Mary"
aka Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Burns
9)
"Last May a braw wooer"
aka Last May a braw moor
Composer(s): Traditional
10)
"Auld lang syne"
aka Old lang syne
Composer(s): Traditional
Text Author: Burns
11)
"Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled"
aka Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Text Author: Burns
12)
"Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad"
aka Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad
Text Author: Burns
13)
"Green grow the rushes, O"
Composer(s): Traditional
14)
Fantasia, piano, unidentified
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Helen Kennedy [piano-soprano]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 April 1867, 7.