Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25; $3.50 private box for 6

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 March 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The selection from L'Étoile du nord was an entr'acte.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Kreutzer
3)
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
aka Etoile du nord, L', selection
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
5)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
6)
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
7)
aka Town and country
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
aka Fantasie sur une danse Cosaque; Cosatchoque; Gosatichoque; Cassischoque
Composer(s): Dargomïzhsky
10)
aka König von Yvetot, Der
Composer(s): Adam
12)
aka Krolls balklange: vals for salonorkester; Kroll's Ball Klange; Krolls Ball Klange; The celebrated Kroll's Ballklänge waltzes; Kroll's Bell-Klange
Composer(s): Lumbye
13)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
aka Frankfurt Schutzen March; Schützen March; Schuetzen Marsch; Frankfurter-Serenaden-Marsch; Bayerischer Schützenfest-Marsch; Würzburger Schützenfest-Marsch; Schutzenfest Marsch ; Frankfurter Schützenmarsch; German Singermarch
Composer(s): Hamm

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 July 1868.

Includes program.

2)
Article: New York Post, 02 July 1868.

“The Central Park Garden is the favorite resort of Americana, and the Terrace Garden of the Germans.”

Necessity for management to announce “by conspicuous posters” that order (i.e., quiet—no promenading) must be maintained during the concert. 

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 July 1868, 7.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 July 1868, 6.

Includes program.