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)

20 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
Composer(s): Verdi
4)
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
7)
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
8)
Composer(s): Bousquet
9)
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
10)
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
11)
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
12)
aka Morgenblatter; Melodische Depeschen; Morning flowers
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
aka Parisian Life; Vie parisienne quadrille
Composer(s): Mariot

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 18 July 1868, 1.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 July 1868, 5.

“The hot weather and delicious music combined have the effect of drawing large crowds to the Central Park Garden every night. The programme is changed nightly.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 July 1868.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 July 1868, 7.

Includes program.

5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 July 1868, 6.

Includes program.