Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25; $2.25 private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 April 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
Composer(s): Wagner
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 Enclume; Amboss
Composer(s): Parlow
8)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
9)
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
10)
Composer(s): Schubert
11)
aka Village swallows; Village swallows from Austria; Die Dorfschwalben
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
aka Panorama von Wien
Composer(s): Ballin

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 11 July 1868, 1.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 13 July 1868, 5.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 July 1868.

Includes program.

4)
Review: New York Sun, 13 July 1868, 2.

“…Theodore Thomas’s concerts at Central Park Garden very properly attract great numbers of people in these hot nights. His programme for the week is varied and excellent.”

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 July 1868, 2.
6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 July 1868, 8.

“During the hot Summer weather there is much comfort to be had for the ridiculously low price of 25 cents, either at the Central Park Garden, where Theodore Thomas sprinkles the air of Seventh-ave. with sweet sounds, or at the Terrace Garden on Third-ave., where melody from Bergmann’s orchestra mingles with the clinck [sic] of beer goblets and ice-cream glasses. Both places are attended by excellent audiences—excellent both in number and quality.”