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:
21 May 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Sep 1868, 8:00 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)
aka Zingara, La; Die Zigeunerin
Composer(s): Balfe
4)
Composer(s): Gung'l
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Mozart
7)
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
8)
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; Songe d'une nuit d'été
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
12)
aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
13)
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 26 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 September 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 28 September 1868, 4.

“The Central Park Garden concerts, under Theodore Thomas, are as popular as ever, despite the weather.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 September 1868, 9.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 September 1868, 6.