Patrick Gilmore
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Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was an Irish-born American composer and military bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. While serving in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War, G
Gilmore, c. 1890−92
"Front Piazza of Grand Hotel, 4 P.M. with Gilmore's Boston Band, Saratoga, N.Y.," mid-19th century
Madison Square Garden (1879)
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Madison Square Garden was an arena in New York City at the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The first venue to use that name, it seated 10,000 spectators. It was r
Patrick Gilmore
…He held the first "Promenade Concert in America" in 1855, the forerunner to today's Boston Pops. He set up "Gilmore's Concert Garden", which became Madison Square Garden. He was the musical director of the Nation in effect, leading the festivities for the 1876 Centennial celebrations in Philadelphia and the dedication…
Madison Square Garden
P. T. Barnum's Roman Hippodrome, a predecessor to Madison Square Garden