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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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Charlotte Cushman
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Theodore Parker
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Donetti's Comic Troupe of Trained Animals, 1852
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Lola Montez, by Southworth & Hawes, 1851
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Professor Anderson, Wizard of the North

History

The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre (1836–1839) and Mechanics Institute (1839).

Proprietors of the Melodeon included the Handel and Haydn Society (1839); Leander Rodney (1844); Boston Theatre Company (1852); E. Warden (1857; temporarily renamed The Melodeon Varieties); Charles Francis Adams (1859).

Performances & events

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1864
    • Arthur Cheney, H.C. Barnabee, John F. Pray.
    • Morton's The angel of the attic.
  • 1865
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