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:
14 September 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Aug 1868, 3:30 PM

Program Details

Thomas and his orchestra gave two concerts on 08/22/68 at the Central Park Garden: one at 3:30pm and another at 8pm. (See separate event entry for evening concert.)

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Festival; Jubel Marsch; Fest Marsch
Composer(s): Rietz
4)
aka Two grenadiers
Composer(s): Schumann
Text Author: Heine
5)
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
aka Fantasie sur une danse Cosaque; Cosatchoque; Gosatichoque; Cassischoque
Composer(s): Dargomïzhsky
7)
aka Son and stranger overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
8)
aka Elegy; Elegie
Composer(s): Bazzini
Participants:  Rudolf Hennig [cellist]
9)
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Masonic funerary music
Composer(s): Mozart
11)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
12)
aka march from Mazeppa; Grand maarch
Composer(s): Liszt

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 22 August 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 August 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 August 1868, 6.

Gives incorrect date (August 22).

4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 August 1868, 8.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 August 1868, 7.
6)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 August 1868, 8.

Includes program.