Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection

  • This present Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1812, will be acted (for the 10th time) a new grand historical play (in three acts) interspersed with musick, called The renegade ... After which, the burlesque tragick opera of Bombastes furioso ... To which will be added (28th time) the revived comick burletta of Midas.

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
    PMC 1332.4
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  • This present Wednesday, January 3, 1821, will be acted the comedy of The clandestine marriage ... after which, 8th time, a new grand & comic pantomime, founded on an old legendary tale, called Harlequin & Friar Bacon, or, The brazen head.

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 1998.
    PMC 1345
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  • This present Wednesday, June 30, 1824, will be acted the comedy of As you like it. With additional songs, &c. The words selected entirely from the sonnets & plays of Shakspeare .. A concert ... to conclude with the melo-drama of The magpie, or the maid?

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
    PMC 1211.1
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  • This present Wednesday, Macrh [sic.] 16, will be performed for the only time this season, the sacred oratorio of The Messiah composed by G.F. Handel ... And on Friday, will be performed the first at of the Creation composed by Dr. Haydn.

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 1998.
    PMC 1283.5
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  • This present Wednesday, March 1, 1815, will be performed a grand selection from the compositions of the most favourite authors - ancient and modern ... The selection will commence with the overture to Atalanta ... and in the second act will be performed Gluck's overture and minuet to Iphigenia.

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 1998.
    PMC 1283.6
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  • This present Wednesday, March 12, 1817 : Part I for the last time this season, the admired sacred oratorio, composed by Beethoven, called the Mount of Olives ... Part II a grand miscellaneous act ... Part III ... the entire first part of Haydn's celebrated sacred oratorio, the Creation ... the performance will conclude with the Grand battle sinfonia (composed by Beethoven and performed with unbounded applause last season).

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
    PMC 1268.1
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  • This present Wednesday, October 10, 1821, will be acted the musical drama of The antiquary. The overture & musick, chiefly from Scotch airs, arranged, & the new musick composed by Mr. Bishop ... after which (in all its original splendour) the grand dramatick romance of Blue Beard; or, Female curiosity. Previous to which will be performed, Mozart's Turkish overture, L'enlevement du Serail.

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
    PMC 1201.4
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  • This present Wednesday, October 3, 1821, will be acted the opera of Rob Roy Macgregor ... After which, a piece in one act, called The rendezvous .. To which will be added the burletta of Tom Thumb the Great.

    Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
    PMC 1201.3
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  • Thomas Arne's Where the bee sucks (album leaf) : manuscript in the hand of Henrietta Beebe, 1886 Feb.

    Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
    1886 Feb.
    Cary 77
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  • Thou wast that all to me, love : autograph manuscript, [1851-1900].

    Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
    [1851-1900].
    Cary 573
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