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:
28 March 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
En avant, op. 81
aka Avant
Composer(s): Gung'l
3)
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, overture
aka Elizabetta; Elizabeth, Queen of England
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Hochzeits-Klänge, op. 242
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange; Wedding festival
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Don Carlos, act 5, finale
Composer(s): Verdi
6)
Deux journées, Les, overture
aka Porteur d’eau, Le; Wasserträger, Der; Water carrier, The
Composer(s): Cherubini
7)
Symphony, no. 8, op. 93, F major. Allegretto scherzando
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Symphony, D. 589, C major. Andante
Composer(s): Schubert
9)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
11)
Serenade, unidentified
Composer(s): Schubert
12)
Wiener Stimmen, op. 239
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Quadrille on a theme from Offenbach's La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 11 July 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 July 1868.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 17 July 1868, 6.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 July 1868, 7.

Includes program.