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词条 Melodeon (Boston, Massachusetts)
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  1. History

  2. Performances & events

      1830s-1840s    1850s    1860s  

  3. References

The Melodeon (1839 - ca.1870) was a concert hall and performance space in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, located on Washington Street, near West Street. Musical concerts, lectures, sermons, conferences, visual displays, and popular entertainments occurred there.

History

The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre (1836–1839) and Mechanics Institute (1839).[2]

Proprietors of the Melodeon included the Handel and Haydn Society (1839); Leander Rodney (1844); Boston Theatre Company (1852); E. Warden (1857; temporarily renamed The Melodeon Varieties); Charles Francis Adams (1859).[2][3]

Performances & events

1830s-1840s

  • 1839
    • Handel and Haydn Society.
  • 1840
    • "Soiree musicale. The celebrated Rainer Family, or Tyrolese minstrels."[4]
  • 1842
    • Amateur concert for the benefit of the Warren Street Chapel.[4]
    • Mr. Braham.[4]
  • 1843
    • Vocal entertainment by H. Russell.[4]
    • Rossini's Stabat Mater, with Handel and Haydn Society.[4]
    • Dr. Lardner[5]
  • 1844
    • Concert by Ole Bull, assisted by Miss Stone, Mr. Herwig, Mr. Hayter, and a full orchestra.[4]
    • Henry Phillips, assisted by Miss Stone.[4]
    • William Charles Macready, Charlotte Cushman.[2]
  • 1845
    • Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association 13th triennial festival, 1st semi-centennial celebration.[4]
    • Musical entertainment by Mr. Dempster.[4]
  • 1846
    • Haydn's The Creation, performed by the Handel and Haydn Society.[4]
    • Hutchinson Family.[4]
    • Concert by C. Sivori.[4]
  • 1848
    • Steyermarkische Musical Company.[4]
  • 1849
    • Madame Biscaccianti and Strakosch.[4]
    • Services on the occasion of the decease of the late president, James K. Polk.[4]
    • Sermon of the Spiritual Condition of Boston, preached by Theodore Parker.[6]

1850s

  • 1850
    • Annetta Stephani.[4]
    • Handel's Jeptha, with Boston Musical Education Society.[4]
    • "Optical wonders. Whipple's grand exhibition of dissolving views! Magnifiying daguerreotypes, kaleidoscope pictures, & pyramic fires."[4]
  • 1852
    • "Professor Anderson, the wizard of the North"[7]
    • Handel's Samson, with Handel and Haydn Society.[4]
    • Donetti's Comic Troupe of Acting Monkeys[4]
    • Germania Musical Society[8]
  • 1854
    • Magician Macallister.[4]
    • "Splendid mirror of North and South America"; presented by J. Perham.[4]
    • "Italia", panorama by Waugh.[4]
  • 1855
    • J. H. Siddons.[4]
    • Josiah Perham's Ethiopian Troupe and Great Burlesque Company.[4]
    • New England Anti-Slavery Convention.[9]
    • William Makepeace Thackeray[3]
  • 1857
    • Lola Montez.[3][4]
  • 1858
    • The Bunyan Tableaux.[4]
    • Orpheus Glee Club, Lucy A. Doane, Hugo Leonhard.[4]
  • 1859
    • Melodeon Minstrels.[2]

1860s

  • 1860
    • Parlor operas, with Mr. & Mrs. Henri Drayton.[2]
  • 1862
    • French Zouaves.[2]
    • Stereopticon.[4]
    • M. Lizzie Bell, Agnes A. Kenney.[4]
    • "Master Rentz's second annual subscription concert," with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, Adeline S. Washburn.[4]
  • 1864
    • Arthur Cheney, H.C. Barnabee, John F. Pray.[2]
    • Morton's The angel of the attic.[4]
  • 1865
    • A. Bronson Alcott[10]

References

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1. ^{{cite journal |journal=Gleason's Pictorial |location=Boston, Mass. |url=https://archive.org/stream/gleasonspictoria03glea#page/33/mode/1up |title=Donetti's Monkey Troupe |date=1852 |volume=3 }}
2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Justin Winsor. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZ5AAAAMAAJ The memorial history of Boston], v.4. J. R. Osgood and Co., 1881; p.371.
3. ^1 2 Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby. [https://books.google.com/books?id=s5k5AAAAIAAJ The history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901]. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
5. ^The Rover, v.2, no.10, 1843
6. ^Theodore Parker. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WK8RAAAAYAAJ Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons], v.2. W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1852; p.298.
7. ^{{cite journal |journal=Gleason's Pictorial |location=Boston, Mass. |url=https://archive.org/stream/gleasonspictoria03glea#page/193/mode/1up |title=Professor Anderson |date=1852 |volume=3 }}
8. ^Dwight's Journal of Music, June 5, 1852
9. ^New-England Anti-Slavery Convention; Fun in the Boston Melodeon. New York Times, June 1; p.2.
10. ^Frederick Wagner. Eighty-Six Letters (1814-1882) of A. Bronson Alcott (Part Two). Studies in the American Renaissance, 1980; p.216-217
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