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:
14 June 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jun 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

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

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
aka Daughter of the Regiment, The ; Figlia del reggimento, La; Child of the Regiment, The; Regimentstochter, Die; La fille du regiment
Composer(s): Donizetti
4)
aka Hofball Taenze; Court Ball dances
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Composer(s): Litolff
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)
aka Postillion; Pavillon d'amour
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Composer(s): Mozart
10)
aka Fortune teller
Composer(s): Suppé
11)
Composer(s): Schubert
12)
aka From the mountains; Von den Bergen
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 June 1868.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 June 1868, 7.

No Theodore Thomas concert on Thursday, June 4, due to a previous engagement of the hall at Central Park Garden. 

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 June 1868, 7.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 03 June 1868, 6.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 04 June 1868, 4.

“. . .  Donizetti, Lanner, Verdi, Littolf, Mozart, Suppe, Schubert, &C., were on Theodore Thomas” programme at the beautiful Central Park Garden last evening. The audiences are still on the increase and fashion has at length found a summer home in the metropolis.”