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:
25 March 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Two orchestras performed this concert. The name of the second is not provided. Both orchestras performed Meyerbeer’s “Indian march” from L’Africaine, Verdi’s Ernani selections, and the Handel’s “Hallelujah chorus.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Wieprecht
3)
Composer(s): Flotow
4)
aka Ernesto's serenade; Night is calm
Composer(s): Donizetti
5)
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
aka Grand Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
7)
aka Zug der Frauen zum Münster; Elsa's procession to the Cathedral
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
aka Indian march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
9)
aka potpourri
Composer(s): Verdi
10)
aka nocturne ; notturino;
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
Composer(s): Handel
12)
aka Armée; Armee; Militia; Miliz
Composer(s): Heinsdorff
13)
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
15)
Composer(s): Gung'l
16)
aka Good night, farewell; Gute Nacht
Composer(s): Kücken
17)
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 12 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 September 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 12 September 1868, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 September 1868, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 September 1868, 6.
6)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 September 1868, 8.