Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $2 extra private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 February 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Two orchestras performed this concert. The name of the second is not provided. All of the pieces on the program starting with the Ernani fantasy were performed by both orchestras.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Lohrens
3)
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
aka Spharen-Klange; Spharen Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
aka Maza; Elegie sur La Favorite de Donizetti
Composer(s): Mazas
7)
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
aka potpourri
Composer(s): Verdi
9)
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee
Composer(s): Weber
10)
aka potpourri
Composer(s): Bellini
11)
Composer(s): Handel
12)
Composer(s): Handel
13)
aka Heroic march; Prussia's heroes
Composer(s): Herrmann
14)
aka Orpheus; Orphee aux enfers; Orpheus in the Underworld
Composer(s): Offenbach
15)
aka Tear; Thraene; Träne; Trane, Die; Thrane, Die
Composer(s): Stigelli
Text Author: Brandes
16)
aka Yankee Doodle variations
Composer(s): Scholl
17)
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
18)
Composer(s): Perring
Text Author: Baker
19)
aka Home sweet home
Composer(s): Bishop
Text Author: Payne

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 September 1868.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 September 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 September 1868, 6.

Includes program.