Melodeon (Boston, Massachusetts)
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.
Charlotte Cushman
Theodore Parker
Donetti's Comic Troupe of Trained Animals, 1852[1]
Lola Montez, by Southworth & Hawes, 1851
William Makepeace Thackeray
Professor Anderson, Wizard of the North
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
- 1843
- 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
- 1854
- 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
- 1858
- 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
- 1865
References[]
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- ^ "Donetti's Monkey Troupe". Gleason's Pictorial. Boston, Mass. 3. 1852.
- ^ a b c d e f g Justin Winsor. The memorial history of Boston, v.4. J. R. Osgood and Co., 1881; p.371.
- ^ a b c Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby. The history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
- ^ The Rover, v.2, no.10, 1843
- ^ Theodore Parker. Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons, v.2. W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1852; p.298.
- ^ "Professor Anderson". Gleason's Pictorial. Boston, Mass. 3. 1852.
- ^ Dwight's Journal of Music, June 5, 1852
- ^ New-England Anti-Slavery Convention; Fun in the Boston Melodeon. New York Times, June 1; p.2.
- ^ Frederick Wagner. Eighty-Six Letters (1814-1882) of A. Bronson Alcott (Part Two). Studies in the American Renaissance, 1980; p.216-217
Coordinates: 42°21′15.52″N 71°3′44.26″W / 42.3543111°N 71.0622944°W
Categories:
- Music venues in Boston
- Former buildings and structures in Boston
- Former theatres in Boston
- Cultural history of Boston
- 19th century in Boston
- Financial District, Boston
- Boston Theater District
- 1839 establishments in Massachusetts