Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.25; $2 extra for private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Ninety-seventh concert in series.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Rudolf Hennig [cellist]
2)
Don Carlos, march
Composer(s): Verdi
3)
Nachtlager in Granada, Das, overture
Composer(s): Kreutzer
4)
Hoffnung-Strahlen, op. 158
aka Rays of hope; Star of hope; Rayons de repertoire, Les
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Fantasie on Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Maximilian Robespierre
Composer(s): Litolff
7)
Morceaux lyriques. op. 35, "Élégie"
aka Elegy; Elegie
Composer(s): Bazzini
Participants:  Rudolf Hennig [cellist]
8)
Moulinet, op. 57
aka Muehlen; Mühlen
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Huguenots, Les, "Conjuration et bénédiction des poignards"
aka Schwer und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Waffenweihe; Schwur und Schwerterweihe; Gebet und Waffenweihe; Prayer and Presentation of Weapons; Consecration of the swords; Benediction of the daggers
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Deschamps
10)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
11)
Bürgersinn, op. 295
aka Burgersinn
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Lucrezia Borgia, finale
Composer(s): Donizetti
13)
Central Park Garden galop
Composer(s): Müller

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 15 August 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 19 August 1868, 6.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 19 August 1868, 4.

“The Central Park Garden prospers hugely. Mr. Theodore Thomas has struck the happy medium. The music he supplies is both popular and good. As natural consequence he commands an exceptionally good class of audience—good in quality and great in numbers. The fête nights (Tuesday and Saturday) are especially brilliant.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 August 1868, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 August 1868.