The Odeon (1835 – c. 1846) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a lecture and concert hall on Federal Street in the building also known as the Boston Theatre.[1][2] The 1,300-seat auditorium measured "50 feet square" with "red moreen"-upholstered "seats arranged in a circular order, and above them ... spacious galleries."[3] The Boston Academy of Music occupied the Odeon in the 1830s and 1840s[4] Notable events at the Odeon included "the first performance in Boston of a Beethoven symphony."[5]
Events
edit1830s
edit- Samuel A. Elliot opening address[3]
- Joseph Story "on the life and professional character of the late Chief Justice Marshall"[6]
- William Apess lecture[7]
- James Madison memorial[6]
- William Ellery Channing lecture[8]
- Charles Zeuner concert
- Edward Everett lecture[9]
- A.E. Grimké lecture[10]
- Samuel J. May lecture[10]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson lecture[10][11]
- Society for the Prevention of Pauperism meeting[6]
1840s
edit- Musical Convention[12]
- Boston Children's Friend Society fundraiser[6]
- Massachusetts Temperance Union meeting[6]
- Boston Brigade Band concert[13]
- George Lunt presentation[14]
- Edgar Allan Poe reading[15]
References
edit- ^ Boston Athenaeum. "Theater History: Boston Theatre (1794-1852), Federal and Franklin Streets". Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ Boston Almanac. 1841
- ^ a b "The Boston Academy of Music". The Family Minstrel. 1 (15). Sep 1, 1835.
- ^ Boston Academy of Music. Annual Report. 1836, 1844
- ^ Samuel A. Eliot (1936–1941). "Being Mayor of Boston a Hundred Years Ago". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Third Series. 66.
- ^ a b c d e American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
- ^ Eulogy on King Philip, as pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apess, an Indian, January 8, 1836 (2nd ed.), Boston: The author, 1837, OCLC 4332979, OL 24166555M
- ^ Sponsored by the Massachusetts Temperance Society. Larry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1837' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1981), pp. 27-132
- ^ Edward Everett (1838). An address, delivered before the Mercantile Library Association, at the Odeon in Boston, September 13, 1838. Boston: W. D. Ticknor.
- ^ a b c Larry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1838' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1993), pp. 161-244
- ^ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1924). War : an address before the American Peace Society at the Odeon, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1838. Washington, D.C.: American Peace Society.
- ^ The Musical Magazine (Boston) no.38, June 6, 1840
- ^ Boston Daily Atlas, Feb. 16, 1843
- ^ George Lunt. Culture: a poem delivered before the Mercantile Library Association, at the Odeon, in Boston, October 3, 1843. Boston, W. D. Ticknor & Company, 1843.
- ^ Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8154-1038-7
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