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

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Henry Schmitz [French horn];  Herr [flautist] Siedler
2)
Nachtlager in Granada, Das, overture
Composer(s): Kreutzer
3)
Hochzeits-Klänge, op. 242
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange; Wedding festival
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Étoile du nord, L', selection
aka Etoile du nord, L', selection
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
5)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
6)
"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
7)
Stadt und Land, op. 322
aka Town and country
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
Unter Donner und Blitz, op. 324
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Kazachok
aka Fantasie sur une danse Cosaque; Cosatchoque; Gosatichoque; Cassischoque
Composer(s): Dargomïzhsky
10)
Roi d’Yvetot, Le, overture
aka König von Yvetot, Der
Composer(s): Adam
11)
Serenade, flute, horn obbligato
aka Romanza; Nocturne, flutes, clarinets
Composer(s): Titl
Participants:  Henry Schmitz [French horn];  Herr [flautist] Siedler
12)
Krolls Ballklänge
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)
Quadrille on a theme from Offenbach's La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Deutscher Schützenfest-Marsch, op. 133
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-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 July 1868, 6.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 July 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
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. 

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 July 1868.

Includes program.