Thomas Popular Garden Concert: 51st

Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
Philipp Bernet

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 February 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The citations mark Strauss's Fantasiebilder, op. 151 as "new;" this indicates that it is either new to America or new to the Popular Garden concert series. (The first concert at which Thomas began to premiere new works in this concert series was the Thomas Popular Garden Concert: 19th on 07/02/67.)

The citations do not provide a composer for the Carnaval de Venise burlesque. In 1868, the Popular Garden concert series featured a piece of the same title by Ernst, so that is what is listed here.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Frederick Letsch
2)
Düppeler Sturm
aka Düppeler Sturm-Marsch; Düppler Sturm; Duppeler Sturm; Prussian Army march; Sturin quickstep; Dueppel; Storming of the fortifications at Dueppel; Düppelmarsch; Düppel-Schanzen-Sturm-Marsch; Sturm; Doppler storm
Composer(s): Piefke
3)
Reiselust
Composer(s): Lobe
4)
Fantasiebilder, op. 151
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Huguenots, Les, "Conjuration et bénédiction des poignards"
aka Schwer und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Schwerterweihe; Gebet und Waffenweihe; Prayer and Presentation of Weapons; Consecration of the swords; Benediction of the daggers
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Deschamps
6)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
7)
"Thräne, Die," op. 12
aka Tear; Thraene; Träne; Trane, Die; Thrane, Die
Composer(s): Stigelli
Text Author: Brandes
Participants:  Frederick Letsch
8)
Libelle, Die, op. 204
aka Devil's darning needle; Sibelle
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
S’ giebt nur a Kaiserstadt, s’ giebt nur a Wien, op. 291
aka 'S giebt nur Kaiserstadt, ’s giebt nur ein Wien; Kaiserstadt polka
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Lorelei, Die, op. 98, act 1, finale
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
Carnaval de Venise, Le
aka Variations burlesques; Cara mia mamma; Carnival of Venice
Composer(s): Ernst
12)
Morceaux de salon, op. 22. Rêverie
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
13)
Hydropathen, Die, op. 149
Composer(s): Gung'l
14)
Beduinen-Galop
Composer(s): Lumbye

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 August 1867, 2.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 August 1867, 7.

Program included.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 05 August 1867, 6.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 August 1867, 7.

Includes program.

5)
Review: New-York Times, 06 August 1867, 4.

"The forty-ninth [sic] of Mr. Theodore Thomas’ open air Orchestral Concerts was given at Terrace Garden last night. The Pavillion and the grounds were filled, as the term now consecrated goes, ‘to overflowing,’ and no wonder. It has been the case every clear evening since the concerts began. The programmes since Mr. Thomas’ return have been so crowded with attractions that to describe them one by one would be equivalent to giving a descriptive catalogue of a picture gallery, amply stored with works in every school, and gathered from every source, and we shall not attempt it.  There were three entirely new waltzes by Strauss in last night’s programme, which need not be named but ought to be heard. Mr. Thomas, however, makes all his concerts equally attractive with the very newest pieces, as well as with the pleasantest of old time favorites, and in this honorably distinguishes his open air soirees from the great majority of Summer entertainments, which are for the most part but feeble reminiscences of the previous Winter’s performances. With a host of renowned soloists under his command, and each entitled to the privilege of one exhibition of skill, Mr. Thomas nevertheless continues to endow his concerts with an interest purely, if not classically musical. Mr. Letsch’s solo for the trombone, Stigelli’s ‘Lear,’ [sic] received a merited encore last evening.”