Melodeon (Boston, Massachusetts)
The Melodeon 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.
, 1851
History
The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre and Mechanics Institute.
Proprietors of the Melodeon included the Handel and Haydn Society ; Leander Rodney ; Boston Theatre Company ; E. Warden ; Charles Francis Adams.1830s-1840s
- 1839
- * Handel and Haydn Society.
- 1840
- * "Soiree musicale. The celebrated Rainer Family, or Tyrolese minstrels."
- 1842
- * Amateur concert for the benefit of the Warren Street Chapel.
- * Mr. Braham.
- 1843
- * Vocal entertainment by H. Russell.
- * Rossini's Stabat Mater, with Handel and Haydn Society.
- * Dr. Lardner
- 1844
- * Concert by Ole Bull, assisted by Miss Stone, Mr. Herwig, Mr. Hayter, and a full orchestra.
- * Henry Phillips, assisted by Miss Stone.
- * William Charles Macready, Charlotte Cushman.
- 1845
- * Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association 13th triennial festival, 1st semi-centennial celebration.
- * Musical entertainment by Mr. Dempster.
- 1846
- * Haydn's The Creation, performed by the Handel and Haydn Society.
- * Hutchinson Family.
- * Concert by C. Sivori.
- 1848
- * Steyermarkische Musical Company.
- 1849
- * Madame Biscaccianti and Strakosch.
- * Services on the occasion of the decease of the late president, James K. Polk.
- * Sermon of the Spiritual Condition of Boston, preached by Theodore Parker.
1850s
- 1850
- * Annetta Stephani.
- * Handel's Jeptha, with Boston Musical Education Society.
- * "Optical wonders. Whipple's grand exhibition of dissolving views! Magnifiying daguerreotypes, kaleidoscope pictures, & pyramic fires."
- 1852
- * "Professor Anderson, the wizard of the North"
- * Handel's Samson, with Handel and Haydn Society.
- * Donetti's Comic Troupe of Acting Monkeys
- * Germania Musical Society
- 1854
- * Magician Macallister.
- * "Splendid mirror of North and South America"; presented by J. Perham.
- * "Italia", panorama by Waugh.
- 1855
- * J. H. Siddons.
- * Josiah Perham's Ethiopian Troupe and Great Burlesque Company.
- * New England Anti-Slavery Convention.
- * William Makepeace Thackeray
- 1857
- * Lola Montez.
- 1858
- * The Bunyan Tableaux.
- * Orpheus Glee Club, Lucy A. Doane, Hugo Leonhard.
- 1859
- * Melodeon Minstrels.
1860s
- 1860
- * Parlor operas, with Mr. & Mrs. Henri Drayton.
- 1862
- * French Zouaves.
- * Stereopticon.
- * M. Lizzie Bell, Agnes A. Kenney.
- * "Master Rentz's second annual subscription concert," with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, Adeline S. Washburn.
- 1864
- * Arthur Cheney, H.C. Barnabee, John F. Pray.
- * Morton's The angel of the attic.
- 1865
- * A. Bronson Alcott
