Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25; private box (6 seats) $3.50

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 July 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Jun 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Gung'l
3)
Composer(s): Auber
4)
aka Morgenblatter; Melodische Depeschen; Morning flowers
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Composer(s): Verdi
6)
Composer(s): Kreutzer
7)
aka Philemon et Baucis
Composer(s): Gounod
8)
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Torch dance, no. 1
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
11)
Composer(s): Wehli
12)
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
aka Light blood
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Composer(s): Riede

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 June 1868.

Program included.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 09 June 1868, 6.

Program included.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 June 1868, 7.

Includes program.

4)
Review: New York Post, 10 June 1868.

“Although the weather was rather cool last evening, the spacious concert hall at Central Park Garden was well filled.  When the warm nights come, not only the hall but all of the out-of-door accommodations will be needed, for the Garden, inheriting the prestige of Mr. Thomas’s success during the past two summers, has become popular at once, and is now the resort of the best people in the city. The admirable arrangement of private boxes in the gallery which surrounds the hall enables parties to isolate themselves from the crowd below, and to spend the evening as socially as in the private box of a theatre.

“In the grounds in the rear constant improvements are making, among other things the rooting of a long row of private tables, ensuring seclusion and protection from the rain. Within a few days the whole establishment will assume a finished appearance, and will be one of the most attractive places of amusement in the city. Of the musical performances nothing need be said, save that Mr. Thomas’s orchestra has been enlarged and now has no superior in the country.”