Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25; $10 season pass

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 January 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 May 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
Composer(s): Auber
4)
aka Burgersinn
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
aka Trumpet overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
7)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
8)
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
Composer(s): Thomas
12)
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
13)
Composer(s): Bousquet
14)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 May 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 May 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 28 May 1868, 10.

“The audiences at this favorite summer resort seem to increase every night. Last night there were over a thousand people assembled to listen to Theodore Thomas’ magnificent orchestra. The programme was changed from the first evening in many respects and no less interesting. Under the able management of Mesrs. Gresche, Appleby and Schindler, as has been fully demonstrated during the first three nights of its existence, the Central Park Garden must needs become the favorite trysting place of all New Yorkers this summer.”