Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 August 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Sep 1868, 3:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Good health quickstep; Turner March, “Good Health”; Leipziger Turnfest; Turnfest in Leipzig; Turnerfest march; Turner-Fest march
Composer(s): Hamm
3)
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
5)
aka Caprice, unidentified
Composer(s): Weber
6)
aka Fantasie sur une danse Cosaque; Cosatchoque; Gosatichoque; Cassischoque
Composer(s): Dargomïzhsky
7)
aka Orpheus; Orphee aux enfers; Orpheus in the Underworld
Composer(s): Offenbach
8)
aka Josephine waltz
Composer(s): Matzka
10)
aka One heart, one soul
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Composer(s): Kreutzer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 25 September 1868, 2.
2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 26 September 1868, 1.
3)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 September 1868, 8.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 September 1868.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 September 1868, 7.
6)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 27 September 1868, 8.
7)
Review: New-York Times, 28 September 1868, 7.

“The concerts in the Central Park Garden have been interfered with by the Equinoctial weather, but in the worst of weather the attendance is always fashionable. Mr. Thomas’ programmes are varied and eclectic. There is something for everybody. The orchestra cannot be surpassed.”