The next evening she dismissed the orchestra and sang with piano accompaniment, because they could not transpose the parts one note for her.
As the chorus was ready to sing the finale of the first act of “Lohengrin,” she suddenly walked off the stage, leaving them quite nonplussed. Minnie Hauk, who was known to b more or less temperamental, lived up to her reputation by exhibiting certain wilful eccentricitities. The audiences were overjoyed with Thomas, but felt that both Hauk and Litta would have been more effective in genuine opera, than in a concert version of it.
And to furnish lighter entertainment, the Chicago Church Choir Opera company in “Pinafore,” “Chimes of Normandy, and “Patience.”. The Grand Opera House celebrated its opening all through the week of April 2, 1883. I changed the tempo and rewrote some of the verses, and in all likelihood, if Dan Bryant had not made that hurry-up request, “Dixie” never would have been brought out.Ībove and below: Minnesota Historical Society Then, rather than disappoint Bryant, I searched through my trunk and resurrected the manuscript of “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land,” which I had written years before. The time allotted me was unreasonably short, but, notwithstanding, I went to my hotel and tried to think out something suitable. On Saturday night Dan Bryant requested me to write a walkaround for the following week. It was sung by Miss Susan Denin and “the audience immediately lost its collective mind.”Įmmett told conflicting stories of the origin of the song, but shortly before his death in 1904 he told Lamp Magazine: That story was that he composed the song “Dixie,” which was brought to the public a year and a half later in a show called “Pocohontas,” (sic) showing in New Orleans. Dan asked Emmett to write a “walkaround’ or “hooray” number for the next show – something catchy that people would whistle in the street. Other experts claim that the song was written the next year, when Emmett returned to New York City and joined Dan and Jerry Bryant’s Minstrels. “Newspaper files in the Twin Cities reveal frequent and insistent testimonies of oldtimers that “Dixie” was first sung to Russ Munger and that Munger asked Emmett to present it in a show at the old Ingersoll Hall on Wabasha Street between Second Street and Kellogg Blvd.” This was probably an earlier version of the song. and played it on his violin, receiving enthusiastic applause. Fitzpatrick asserts that Dan took the “crude manuscript” to the Munger Ben’s Music Hall on Kellogg Blvd. (Lafayette’s house, perhaps the first brick residence in the city, was located at 279 West Seventh Street and was torn down in 1942.) Dan was in town that summer playing in the Old Gents’ Band, backing Sallie St. His brother was Lafayette Emmett, who was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. Paul historian Mark Fitzpatrick, Dan wrote it in the summer of 1857 on the porch of his brother’s house in St. Metropolitan Sports Center (“Met Center”)Īn article by Irv Letofsky in Select Magazine (March 1961), tells the story of the Minnesota connection to the very Southern song “Dixie.” There is no question that the song was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett, but there is some controversy as to where and when. All shows at certain venues are now listed under the appropriate venue page. 
This Events page got TOO LONG, so I was forced to cut it up some. *This site is poorly annotated and can never be a book because in most cases I can’t go back and trace my sources. I also got better at photo shopping pictures, so I hope to be replacing many of them, if I live long enough. *I have a TON of information and photos yet to post. Lots of times bands cancelled or were substituted after the show was listed in a “Coming Events” section of a magazine or newspaper. *Almost all of these dates come from ads that were published ahead of time, and there is no guarantee that the event actually took place unless there is a comment or review with it. If you know what you are looking for, use the search feature in the menu bar to go right to it. If you have more information, memories, photos, or ads, please contact me! The chronology generally stops at 1974, with a few exceptions, mostly for St. This “Events” page of my Twin Cities Music Highlights website is a chronological list of concerts and other music-related happenings that took place here in the Twin Cities, primarily focusing on national acts that came here.
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