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:
12 May 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Two orchestras performed this concert. The name of the second is not provided. Weber’s Jubel-Overtüre, Beethoven’s Ruinen von Athen, the Ernani fantasie, Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” and Meyerbeer’s “Marche du sacre” were all performed by both orchestras.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Begrüssung
aka Greeting
Composer(s): Granes
3)
Jules César, "Marche des impériaux"
Composer(s): Bülow
4)
"Spielmannslied"
Composer(s): Gumbert
5)
Telegrafische Depeschen, op. 195
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Fantasia on themes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
Romanzen und Balladen, op. 49. Beiden Grenadiere, Die
aka Two grenadiers
Composer(s): Schumann
Text Author: Heine
8)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee; Feste
Composer(s): Weber
9)
Ruinen von Athen, Die, Marsch und Chor
aka Schmükt die Altäre ; Marche religieuse
Composer(s): Beethoven
10)
Fantasia on Verdi's Ernani
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
11)
Messiah, "Hallelujah chorus"
Composer(s): Handel
12)
Mein Östreich
aka Mein Oestreich
Composer(s): Hamm
13)
Maritana, overture
Composer(s): Wallace
14)
Fantasia on Offenbach's La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein
Composer(s): Unknown composer
15)
Herbstrosen, op. 232
aka Autumn roses
Composer(s): Strauss
16)
"After"
Composer(s): Millard
Text Author: Cooper [comp-lyricist]
17)
Grecian bend
Composer(s): Müller
18)
Prophète, Le, "Marche du sacre"
aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 19 September 1868, 1.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 25 September 1868, 2.
3)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 September 1868, 8.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 September 1868, 6.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 September 1868, 7.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 26 September 1868, 2.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 September 1868.