Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events

by Henry Charles Lahee

1880. Oct. 4. American début of Georg Henschel at a concert of the Symphony Society, in New York City.

1880. Oct. 18. American début of Luigi Ravelli, Italian tenor, as Edgardo in "Lucia" at the Academy of Music, New York City, under Mapleson.

1880. Nov. 19. First part of Liszt's symphony after "la Divina Commedia" given at a Philharmonic Society's Concert, in Boston, Bernhard Listemann conducting.

1880. Nov. 24. Boito's opera "Mefistofele" presented at the Academy of Music, New York City, with Annie Louise Cary, Campanini and Novara, under Mapleson.

1880. Music of the third act of "Die Götterdämmerung" given in New York and Brooklyn, by the Philharmonic Societies of those cities united under Theodore Thomas, with Campanini, Remmertz, and Steinbuch as soloists.

1880. Mapleson made his third American operatic tour with a company which included Gerster, Valleria, Cary, Ravelli, and Campanini.

1881. Jan. 2. Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" given by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, Theodore Thomas conducting.

1881. Jan. 6. Hans von Bronsart's "Spring Fantasie" given by the Symphony Society, of New York City.

1881. Feb. 17. F. L. Ritter's "Second Symphony" given by the Harvard Musical Association, in Boston.

1881. Feb. 25. Handel's "L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, et Il Moderato" given by the Oratorio Society, in New York City.