Concerts

Newspaper article reporting on the concert at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Masonic Home of Utica which consisted of professional performers as well as children from the home dancing and performing music. The concert raised over $5,000 for the Masonic Home and the children enjoyed their trip to New York City. Letters received by William J. Wiley, superintendent of the home, are also printed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-29

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-08-21

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Recipient

Brice, W. K.

Ambassador Francis informs William Loeb about the Wiener Männergesang-Verein and its plan to visit the United States next year. He asks if President Roosevelt would allow the choir to visit him at the White House and give a private concert.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-14

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt played the violin, belonged to an Amateur Concert Club, and performed at all sorts of places. This invitation is one example of the requests she received to play her violin.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-02-22

Eleanor Butler Alexander played the violin, belonged to an Amateur Concert Club, and performed at all sorts of places. This invitation is one example of the requests she received to play her violin. It was also made out to her friend Elizabeth Bertron.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-01-11

An invitation sent by the junior class of Yale University asking Eleanor Butler Alexander to attend the Promenade Concert on January 21, 1908.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-01

On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb praises William H. Santelmann for playing the selection she suggested at Saturday’s concert of the Marine Band.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-10

Osborne D. Seavey invites Theodore Roosevelt to his annual memorial concert for the late President McKinley, and hopes that he would be willing to say a few remarks about him. Seavey says he and his wife can stay at the hotel for as long as they wish.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-03

Herwegh von Ende invites Theodore Roosevelt to the Von Ende Violin School’s annual concert on May 24. If he can spare the time, Von Ende would also appreciate if Roosevelt would “encourage a number of promising young artists.” 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-19

Thomas O. Clark visited the White House last year for a concert by a Welsh choir, and would like to secure an invitation this year for a different Welsh choir to perform there. He asks if Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt could write First Lady Helen Herron Taft about how much she enjoyed the concert last year. In a handwritten note, Roosevelt instructs her secretary to say that she has made a rule not to write such letters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-06-07

Chief Clerk of the State Department Carr attaches a despatch regarding the planned American tour of the Welsh choir that President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had hoped to see.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-26

Senator Lodge advises President Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft to keep quiet about the Brownsville affair until action has been taken by the committee. He believes Senator Joseph Benson Foraker’s speech on the matter has fallen flat. Lodge believes Roosevelt handled the issue of the qualifications of engineer at the Chicago post office well. He was also amused by Roosevelt’s story about himself and Ethel Roosevelt listening to a concert. Finally, Lodge informs Roosevelt that his merger bill has made it through both houses. Henry Melville Whitney publicly opposed the bill, and Lodge believes this will hurt him politically if he runs for reelection.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-01

Cillis Hubert rights to confirm the plans and scheduling of the Wiener Maennergesang-Verein’s visit to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-24

Ambassador to Austria Francis encloses a program of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein singing group, which will perform at the White House. He encourages William Loeb to be sure his wife gets to hear them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-20

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Postcard showing the Plaza de Armas and Hotel de France in Santiago, Chile. Charles C. Myers comments on the weekly band concerts and socialization in the park.

Comments and Context

In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Overlooking a section of the Plaza des Armas we see the Hotel de France which is the leading hotel of the city as well as one of the leading hotels of South America. Plaza des Armas is a small but beautiful park in the central part of the city and is a very interesting place to visit especially on nights when band concerts are held. It is very amusing to seat yourself near the broad walk that encircles the park and watch proceedings. It is an old Spanish custom, and still practiced extensively, that for amusement and passtime, [sic] the senoras and senoritas (ladies) will walk in one direction and on the inside of the circular walk while the caballeros (cabreelyos [sic]) (gentlemen) walk in the opposite direction. Much is said to ba [sic] accomplished by the “language of the eye” in this way.”

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

President Roosevelt plays a trumpet while Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks plays a cello at “the great one-man show concert.” The words “Chicago convention” are crossed out. There is “music for the Roosevelt march to the tune of ‘Mr. Dooley.'” Fairbanks’s music is for the “second fiddle to the tune of Roosevelt to be played very soft and low.” A “trust” man looks on and puts a bouquet of flowers on the stage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-25

A newspaper article describes a successful concert given by the Mountain Ash Male Voice Party, lead by T. Glyndwr Richards, in Pontypridd, Wales. The choir has plans to tour the United States shortly.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-01

Puck conducts a group of singers on a stage as they sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Among the singers are “Palmer, Buckner, Johnson, Levering, Watson, Bryan, Sewall, Mrs. Lease, McKinley, [and] Hobart.” Mary E. Lease is dressed as Columbia holding an American flag. Caption: Puck–Now, then, altogether! – “The Star Spangled Banner, oh long may it wave / O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-11-11

A crazed man representing the Czar of “Russia” sits on a throne, manipulating marionettes that represent “France” (Felix Faure), “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “Italy” (Umberto I), “Germany” (William II), and “England” (John Bull) playing musical instruments.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-05-05