[Rarebooks] FS: Wat is Over! Boston 1872 International Music Festival

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

1872 International Musical Festival Boston City Council Engraved Invitation.

“The City Council of Boston respectfully solicit the honour of your  
presence, at the International Musical Festival in Boston, beginning  
on the Seventeenth day of June next, and they cordially invite you to  
accept the hospitalities of the City on that occasion - 15’ April,  
1872”.

“The World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival of 1872  
took place in the Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts. Patrick  
Sarsfield Gilmore directed the festival, which lasted some 18 days.  
The jubilee honored the ending of the Franco-Prussian War. For this  
well-publicized, high-profile, widely anticipated event, architect  
William G. Preston designed the ‘colosseum, with a seating capacity of  
100,000, ...erected at a cost of half a million dollars.’ J.H. Wilcox  
& Co. designed the 43-foot high pipe organ. At opening ceremonies on  
June 17, 1872, before some 15,000 spectators, Phillips Brooks  
presented a prayer and Boston mayor William Gaston and Nathaniel  
Prentice Banks gave speeches. ‘Unfortunately the size of the building  
and the din of the workmen caused passages of the prayer and speeches  
to be inaudible.’ Many musicians performed at the jubilee. During the  
festival ‘the bands of the Grenadier guards, from London, of the Garde  
republicaine, from Paris, of the Kaiser Franz regiment, from Berlin,  
and a band from Dublin, Ireland: with Johann Strauss, the waltz-king,  
Franz Abt, the German song-writer, and many famous soloists, vocal and  
instrumental, were among the foreign attractions.’ One concert  
featured a ‘performance of Verdi's Il Trovatore by a 2,000-member  
orchestra, conducted by Johann Strauss, Jr., and 100 assistants,  
accompanied by a 20,000-voice chorus.’ The Fisk University Jubilee  
Singers also gave a concert, the first time African American ‘singers  
[were] included in a big musical production’ in the country”  
[Wikipedia].

Folding invitation. 8.5”x11”. Minor soil, light wear, starting to  
split along the folds. $25

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