Thomas Popular 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:
19 November 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Gratulationsmenuett; Graduation minuet; Minuet, orchestra, WoO 3, E♭ major
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Composer(s): Weber
4)
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
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
6)
aka Robert the devil
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
9)
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
11)
aka Kukuk-Polka; Kuckkuck polka
Composer(s): Herzog
12)
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 26 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 September 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 30 September 1868, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 September 1868, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 30 September 1868, 6.
6)
Review: New York Musical Gazette, October 1868, 93.

Brief: “But for Theodore Thomas’ admirable Garden concerts, and Bateman’s ‘Barbe bleue,’ New York would be almost a musical desert.”