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:
3 April 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Fifty-fourth concert in series.

There was no Thomas Popular Garden Concert on Thursday (07/09/68) because the hall was previously engaged. Notices of this issued by the New York Herald, New York Post, and New York Times.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Central Park Garden
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
Vestale, La, overture
Composer(s): Spontini
4)
Publicisten, Die, op. 321
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Fantasie on the Riccis’ Crispino e la comare
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Kinderscenen, "Träumerei"
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
8)
Orphée et Eurydice, "Ballet des ombres heureuses"
aka Reigen seliger Geister ; Dance of the blessed spirits
Composer(s): Gluck
9)
Orphée et Eurydice, "Air de Furies"
aka Dance of the furies; Furien Tanz
Composer(s): Gluck
10)
Festmarsch
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
11)
Don Giovanni, overture
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Mozart
12)
Wiener Stimmen, op. 239
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Fantasie on Bellini's I Puritani
Composer(s): Unknown composer
14)
Quadrille on Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène
aka Quadrille on Schöne Zuluna
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 04 July 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 July 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 July 1868.

Includes program.