Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $2 extra private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 April 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Two orchestras performed this concert. The name of the second is not provided. The L’Africaine fantasia, selections from Tannhäuser, and “Hallelujah” chorus were all performed by both orchestras.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Hundred and one
Composer(s): Faust
3)
aka Freischutz overture
Composer(s): Weber
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Composer(s): Petrella
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): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
9)
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
aka Tannhauser, chorus
Composer(s): Wagner
11)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
12)
Composer(s): Handel
13)
Composer(s): Mallach
14)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
15)
aka How fair art thou; How beautiful you are
Composer(s): Weidt
16)
Composer(s): Strauss
17)
Composer(s): Herfurth
18)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 12 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 September 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 15 September 1868, [2].
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 September 1868, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 15 September 1868, 6.
6)
Review: New York Post, 16 September 1868.

“The concert at Central Park Garden last evening was, as we predicted it would be, one of the most brilliant of the season, and was attended by a very large audience, including many ladies and gentlemen prominent either in the social, literary or political world. The orchestra never performed with more spirit and precision, and the four pieces given by the orchestra and band—a fantasia on ‘L’Africaine,’ and one on ‘Ernani,’ the grand march and chorus from ‘Tannhauser,’ and the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ were brought out with a breadth of effect wholly admirable.”