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

by Henry Charles Lahee

1883. Feb. 3. Grieg's "Two Melodies" for strings (Opus 34) given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1883. Feb. 16. The music of the "Good Friday Spell" from Wagner's opera "Parsifal" given by the Symphony Society, New York City.

1883. Feb. 17. Henschel's "Serenade for Strings" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and on the 24th Chaikovsky's "Marche Slave."

1883. Mar. 3. Mackenzie's Scotch rhapsody "Bobbie Burns" given by Theodore Thomas in Brooklyn, N. Y.

1883. Mar. 10. J. K. Paine's symphonic poem "The Tempest" produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1883. Mar. 12. American operatic début of Madame Emma Albani (Marie Louise Cecilia Emma Lajeunnesse), noted soprano, on her return from Europe, as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust" at the Academy of Music, New York City, with Scalchi, Ravelli and Galassi in support.

1883. April 2. Part VI of Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" given by the Cecilia Society in Boston.

1883. April 4. Svendsen's Legende "Zorahayda" given in Boston.

1883. May 1. Rubinstein's sacred opera "The Tower of Babel" given in concert form by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston.

1883. May 2. J. K. Paine's oratorio "The Nativity" produced by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. Also Cherubini's Mass in D minor; and on the 4th, Max Bruch's oratorio "Arminius."