Thomas Popular Garden Concert
Event Information
Venue(s):
Central Park Garden
Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
Price: $.25 (general adm.), $3.50 (private box for 6)
Event Type:
Orchestral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
14 June 2018
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
05 Jun 1868, 8:00 PMProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“This establishment has jumped at once into a leading position. The attendance every evening, whether the atmosphere be good or not, is excellent. Excellent not merely in the material fact of numbers, but in the representation of those numbers. Every success thus inaugurated is deserved. The establishment is the largest in America, and is conducted on a large scale by Mr. APPLEBY. Mr. THEODORE THOMAS has brought with him to the pleasant Summer task not only his orchestra but his reputation, and we all know that he has worked hard and long to preserve both. The music is excellent. There is, we believe, no other city here or in Europe, where an orchestra of forty-two players—and the best players—can be heard in a Summer Garden. The programmes, too, contain music which is far in advance of that which is usually played at garden entertainments. The public catches the facts quicker than the journalist can record them.”