Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25; $2 extra private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 May 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Düppeler Sturm-Marsch; Düppler Sturm; Duppeler Sturm; Prussian Army march; Sturin quickstep; Dueppel; Storming of the fortifications at Dueppel; Düppelmarsch; Düppel-Schanzen-Sturm-Marsch; Sturm; Doppler storm
Composer(s): Piefke
3)
Composer(s): Auber
4)
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Composer(s): Litolff
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): Strauss
9)
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
10)
Composer(s): Wallace
12)
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 19 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 September 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 September 1868, 4.

“The Central Park Garden concerts under Theodore Thomas are still attracting large audiences. A good programme is offered this week to the lovers of music, and two full orchestras will ‘assist’ the ‘eminent soloists.’”

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 September 1868, 2.

“The Central Park Garden is still as largely patronized as ever.”

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 September 1868, 7.
6)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 September 1868, 6.