Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 November 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Orchestra consisted of forty-two performers and soloists.

The advertisement in the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold (the only citation to provide a program) incorrectly identifies the composer of Die Schönbrunner as (an unidentified) Strauss.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Coronation March; Kronungs-Marsch
Composer(s): Strauss
3)
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
4)
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
aka Konig Manfred overture
Composer(s): Reinecke
7)
aka Town and country
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
11)
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
12)
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
aka Parisian Life; Vie parisienne quadrille
Composer(s): Mariot

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 01 August 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 August 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 August 1868, 8.

Includes program.