Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $2.50 boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 July 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Jul 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Grand extra gala night; prices increased accordingly.

The selection from Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon is a finale (act not specified).

Mendelssohn’s duet “Ich wollt’ meine Lieb” arranged for two cornets.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Leonhardt
3)
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
aka Fantasie sur une danse Cosaque; Cosatchoque; Gosatichoque; Cassischoque
Composer(s): Dargomïzhsky
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)
aka Victory; March of victory; Friedrich Carl Siegesmarsch; Grand triumph
Composer(s): Bilse
11)
Composer(s): Loretz
13)
aka Have mercy, oh God; Church aria; Pity, O Saviour; Aria di chiesa; Preghiera; Air d'eglise (1667)
Composer(s): Fétis
14)
aka Indian march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
15)
aka Review
Composer(s): Schlewitz
16)
aka Freischutz overture
Composer(s): Weber
17)
aka Sleep well, sweet angel; Sleep well, dear angel
Composer(s): Abt
18)
Composer(s): Strauss
19)
aka I would my love
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Text Author: Heine

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 25 July 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 July 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 July 1868.

Includes program.