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

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Parade
Composer(s): Wieprecht
3)
Alessandro Stradella, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
4)
Don Pasquale, "Com’è gentil"
aka Ernesto's serenade; Night is calm
Composer(s): Donizetti
5)
Promotionen, op. 221
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Faust, selections
aka Grand Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
7)
Lohengrin, "Feierlicher Zug zum Münster"
aka Zug der Frauen zum Münster; Elsa's procession to the Cathedral
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
Africaine, L', "Marche indienne"
aka Indian march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
9)
Ernani, selections
aka potpourri
Composer(s): Verdi
10)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, notturno
aka nocturne ; notturino;
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
Messiah, "Hallelujah chorus"
Composer(s): Handel
12)
Militaire
aka Armée; Armee; Militia; Miliz
Composer(s): Heinsdorff
13)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
14)
Grande duchesse de Gérolstein, La, selections
Composer(s): Offenbach
15)
Venus-Reigen, op. 63
Composer(s): Gung'l
16)
"Gut' Nacht, fahr' wohl mein treues Herz"
aka Good night, farewell; Gute Nacht
Composer(s): Kücken
17)
Eingesendet, op. 240
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.