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:
16 April 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Aug 1867, 4:00 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)
Philtre, Le, overture
Composer(s): Auber
4)
Quarry mazurka
Composer(s): Dodworth
5)
Lucia di Lammermoor, selection
aka Lucy of Lammermoor
Composer(s): Donizetti
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
New star, The
Composer(s): Carelia
8)
Semiramide, overture
Composer(s): Rossini
9)
Cricket polka
Composer(s): Jullien
10)
Our sailor boy
aka Sailor boy lancers
Composer(s): Weingarten
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Tour of Europe
aka Musical tour of Europe; Panorama musicale
Composer(s): Conradi
13)
Geistes Schwingen Walzer, op. 191
aka GeistesSchwingen; Geistes-Schwingen; Spirits Wings
Composer(s): Lanner
14)
Zar und Zimmermann; oder, Die beiden Peter, aria
aka Lied
Composer(s): Lortzing
15)
Will you dance with me once again?
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 23 August 1867, 3.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 August 1867, 8.

Includes program.

3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 August 1867, 8.

The beautiful weather attracted an unusually large audience to the concert, and the trails and lawns were filled with thousands of elegantly dressed people.