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:
21 May 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

One hundredth concert. Two orchestras performed this concert. The name of the second is not provided. Weber’s Jubel-Overtüre, the prayer from Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto, and the fantasie on Wagner’s Tannhäuser were performed by both orchestras.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Lorenz
3)
Composer(s): Thomas
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
aka Carnival messenger
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
aka Elly Mavourneen
Composer(s): Crouch [composer-cello]
7)
aka Princess Charlotte
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
9)
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee
Composer(s): Weber
10)
aka Prayer; Preghiera; Mose in Egitto, Dal tuo stellato soglio; O esca viatorum
Composer(s): Rossini
11)
aka Fantasia on themes from Wagner's Tannhauser; Fantasie on themes from Wagner's Tannhäuser
Composer(s): Unknown composer
12)
Composer(s): Mallach
13)
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
14)
aka I would my love
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Text Author: Heine
15)
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
16)
Composer(s): Heinemann
17)
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 26 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 September 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 29 September 1868, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 September 1868, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 September 1868, 6.