Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 January 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 May 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Central Park Garden
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
Semiramide, overture
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Hydropathen, Die, op. 149
Composer(s): Gung'l
5)
Fantasie on Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Alessandro Stradella, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
7)
"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)
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)
Arm in arm, op. 215
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Gnomen, op. 217
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Fantasia on Meyerbeer's L'Africaine
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
11)
Orphée aux enfers, overture
aka Orpheus; Orphee aux enfers; Orpheus in the Underworld
Composer(s): Offenbach
12)
Éclair, L’, romance
aka Blitz, Der ; Eclair, L'
Composer(s): Halévy
13)
Fantasie Bilder, op. 64
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Champagne galop
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 May 1868, 7.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 May 1868.

Includes program.