• Orchestra of the Prague Sokol Gymnastic Society: participating orchestra
• VINAŘ, Čeněk: director of ensemble, conductor

Details of this event were published by Národní listy 23/11/1862, which noted: ‘Musical entertainment by „Sokol“. Newly founded musical ensemble of the Prague gymnastic society, directed by its new kapelník Kapellmeister] Mr Čeněk Vinař, arranges today Sunday in the Žofín Hall its second entertainment.’ The programme was then listed in projected performance order. The event was noted to be commencing at 6 o’clock.

The unsigned Dalibor 1/12/1862 review noted that all the works were performed with accuracy and nuance, and that Čeněk Vinař, ‘although he has been training the band for only a very short time, proved his talent as a director.’ The critic expressed particular pleasure at the decision by Vinař ‘instead of commonplace Italian arias, to present to the audience successful Czech songs arranged for band.’ This was probably in reference to the song by V.J. Rosenkranc, the March by J.L. Zvonař undoubtedly deriving from his Czech opera Záboj, and J.L. Procházka’s Kovářská, originally scored for two solo voices, chorus and piano.

The programme of the database record is reproduced in performance order according to the Národní listy 13/11/1862 report, with the exception of the new Polka Katynka by Vinař, details of which did not appear in that source text. Katynka and the same composer’s Třasák (Galop) were, the Dalibor review noted, the favourite items of the concert. Both were repeated, the former, according to a notice announcing the work’s imminent publication, was encored ‘many times’.

This audience of this event was possibly by invitation. What was described by sources as the ‘first public concert’ was given by the musical ensemble of Sokol on 14/12/1862. On that later occasion the band was specifically described as a string ensemble.