Bergmann Terrace Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 June 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jun 1868, Evening

Program Details

Meyerbeer’s “Shadow song” was performed as a clarinet solo.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bergmann Orchestra
2)
March, unidentified
Composer(s): Bergmann
3)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
4)
Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich, op. 164
aka Village swallows; Village swallows from Austria; Die Dorfschwalben
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Jone, selection
Composer(s): Petrella
6)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
7)
Pardon de Ploërmel, Le, "Ombre légère qui suis mes pas"
aka Shadow dance; Schattentanz; Shadow song
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
8)
Poltergeister
aka Hobgoblin
Composer(s): Faust
9)
Potpourri, unidentified
Composer(s): Hamm
10)
Martha, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
11)
Attila, trio
Composer(s): Verdi
12)
Cuckoo, The
aka Kukuk-Polka; Kuckkuck polka
Composer(s): Herzog
13)
Künstler-Quadrille, op. 201
aka Artist's; Artist; Kunstler
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

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

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 03 June 1868, 6.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 June 1868, 7.

Includes program.

4)
Review: New York Herald, 04 June 1868, 4.

“. . . Carl Bergmann’s Terrace Garden concerts have started under favorable auspices, as the programmes have been unexceptionable in point of merit and rendering. Auber, Strauss, Petrella, Nicolai, Meyerbeer, Faust, Hamm, Flotow, Verdi and Herzog were worthily represented last evening.”