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.

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History

The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre (1836-1839) and Mechanics Institute (1839).[1]

Proprietors of the Melodeon included the Handel and Haydn Society (1839); Leander Rodney (1844); Boston Theatre Company (1852); E. Warden (1857; temporarily re-named The Melodeon Varieties); Charles Francis Adams (1859).[1][2]

Performances & events

1830s-1840s

1850s

1860s

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Justin Winsor. The memorial history of Boston, v.4. J. R. Osgood and Co., 1881; p.371.
  2. ^ a b c Eugene Tompkins, Quincy Kilby. The history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ The Rover, v.2, no.10, 1843
  5. ^ Theodore Parker. Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons, v.2. W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1852; p.298.
  6. ^ Gleason's Pictorial, 1852.
  7. ^ Dwight's Journal of Music, June 5, 1852
  8. ^ New-England Anti-Slavery Convention; Fun in the Boston Melodeon. New York Times, June 1; p.2.
  9. ^ Frederick Wagner. Eighty-Six Letters (1814-1882) of A. Bronson Alcott (Part Two). Studies in the American Renaissance, 1980; p.216-217