Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 June 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Jun 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Gounod’s “Ave Maria” was adapted for solo violins, cornet, piano, and organ.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra

2)

Central Park Garden

Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

3)

Maritana, overture

Composer(s): Wallace

4)

Telegramme, op. 318

Composer(s): Strauss

5)

Fantasia on themes from Rossini's Guillaume Tell

aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell

Composer(s): Unknown composer

6)

Tannhäuser, overture

aka Tannhauser overture

Composer(s): Wagner

7)

"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)

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

8)

Lob der Frauen, op. 315

Composer(s): Strauss

9)

Jocus, op. 216

Composer(s): Strauss

10)

Carnaval de Venise, Le

aka Variations burlesques; Cara mia mamma; Carnival of Venice

Composer(s): Ernst

11)

Nabucco, overture

Composer(s): Verdi

12)

"Fahnenwacht, Die"

aka The Standard Bearer; The Standard Watch; Der Fahnenträger; Der Fahnen Träger; The Warrior Bard

Composer(s): Lindpaintner

13)

Wiener Bonbons, op. 307

Composer(s): Strauss

14)

Quadrille on a theme from Offenbach's La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein

aka Grande duchesse quadrille

Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 June 1868.

Includes program.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 June 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)

Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 June 1868, 6.

4)

Review: New York Herald, 03 June 1868, 4.

“Central Park Garden Concerts.—At length New York has a genuine summer sensation. The second week of the popular concerts at this beautiful garden opened Monday night with an immense audience, in spite of the threatening appearance of the weather immediately before the commencement of the concert. On Sunday there were two concerts given, and the audience at each was so large that very little standing room was left. Monday’s programme included, among other selections, the magnificent overture to ‘Tannhauser,’ which was played with such grand effect that a stormy redemand was the consequence. The ‘Telegram Waltz’ by Strauss was another feature of the concert which irresistibly carried the mind of the hearer back to Gung’l’s concerts at Kroll’s Garden, in Berlin. The charming ‘Ave Maria,’ by Gounod, is still kept in the programme. With such a superb orchestra as that over which Mr. Thomas presides, such a class of music as may be nightly heard at the Central Park Garden, and under the management of Messrs. Goesch, Schindler and Appleby, there is no doubt of the success of the new summer resort of the metropolis. A large proportion of the audience consisted of ladies, and there were abundant opportunities to criticize the latest fashions.”