Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $2.50 private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 April 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Seventh grand extra gala night; prices increased accordingly.

The selection from Meyerbeer's L'Étoile du nord was an entr'acte.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Wieprecht
3)
Composer(s): Flotow
4)
Composer(s): Verdi
5)
aka Witches' Dance; Witches' Dances
Composer(s): Lanner
6)
aka Capricia; Capriccio
Composer(s): Hager
7)
aka Etoile du nord, L', selection
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
8)
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
aka Tannhauser, chorus
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Composer(s): Michaelis
11)
aka The Hebrides; Fingal's Cave; Staffa, Fingal’s Cave; Fingalshöhle; Ouvertüre zur einsamen Insel
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
12)
aka When the quiet moon is beaming
Composer(s): Schondorf
13)
aka Enclume; Amboss
Composer(s): Parlow
14)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
15)
Composer(s): Oelman
16)
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
17)
aka Prayer; Ave Maria
Composer(s): Wallace
18)
Composer(s): Strauss
19)
Composer(s): Thomas
20)
aka Orphée aux enfers
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 18 July 1868, 1.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 July 1868, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 July 1868.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 July 1868.

Includes program.