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

2)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
Composer(s): Wallace
4)
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
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)
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Variations burlesques; Cara mia mamma; Carnival of Venice
Composer(s): Ernst
11)
Composer(s): Verdi
12)
aka The Standard Bearer; The Standard Watch; Der Fahnenträger; Der Fahnen Träger; The Warrior Bard
Composer(s): Lindpaintner
13)
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
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.”