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:
26 May 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

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

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Czaar und Zimmermann; Die beiden Peter
Composer(s): Lortzing
3)
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Composer(s): Litolff
5)
aka nocturne ; notturino;
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
6)
aka Town and country
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
aka Oh dreaded morrow; Terzette and chorus
Composer(s): Weber
9)
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
10)
aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
11)
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Composer(s): Müller
13)
aka Victory; March of victory; Friedrich Carl Siegesmarsch; Grand triumph
Composer(s): Bilse

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.