Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jun 1867, 3:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
3)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
4)
Passion flower
Composer(s): Coote (1807-1879)
5)
Gems from the German
aka Gems of German song
Composer(s): Dodworth
6)
Gonfalon
Composer(s): Dodworth
7)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
Papageno-Polka, op. 55
aka Papageno polka
Composer(s): Stasny
9)
Postillon de Lonjumeau, Le, selection
Composer(s): Adam
10)
Twenty-Second Regiment parade
Composer(s): Gung'l
11)
Neue Melodien, op. 254
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Field flowers
Composer(s): Dodworth
13)
Rock spring
Composer(s): Dodworth
14)
Home thoughts
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 June 1867, 5.

Includes program. 

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 15 June 1867, 8.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 16 June 1867, 7.

The Park is called the lungs of the city. Over 20,000 people in attendance. “At the Mall the bon ton and the “fierce democracie” meet as it were on neutral ground to listen to the strains of Dodworth’s Band . . . The salutatory Park March heads the well selected programme, and at six o’clock home thoughts in the shape of old fireside melodies close the concert. The selection of yesterday’s programme was admirable, as it satisfied all tastes in music. There was some of the salon element in it, and tiny feet beat time to the Passion Flower waltz and the Rock Spring gallop. Again, the lover of the classical had the Tannhauser served up to him, and the national melodies of all lands were interspersed with military and operatic music. The location of the music stand is very bad for sound, as it was impossible to hear a note yesterday unless by standing near the Pagoda. The sound was almost entirely lost on the Terrace or Casino. If the stand were in a more elevated position the crowd around it would not be so great as is now the case; for then visitors might enjoy the music at some reasonable distance.”