Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 November 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Jun 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

First Extra Gala Night.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Strebinger
Participants:  Thomas Band
3)
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
4)
Composer(s): Hamm
Participants:  Thomas Band
5)
Composer(s): Strauss
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
6)
aka Tyrolese song
Composer(s): Proch
Text Author: Deinhardstein
7)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
8)
Composer(s): Zikoff
Participants:  Thomas Band
9)
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee; Feste
Composer(s): Weber
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
10)
Composer(s): Schubert
Participants:  Thomas Band
11)
aka Träume auf dem Ozean Waeltzer; Dreams of the ocean waltz; Dreams on the ocean; Rêves sur l'océan; Traume auf dem Ozean
Composer(s): Gung'l
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
12)
aka Railway bond swindel
Composer(s): Leutner
Participants:  Thomas Band
13)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
14)
aka Tannhauser, chorus
Composer(s): Wagner
15)
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
16)
aka Sangerlust; Singers' joy; Singer's delight; Classic delight
Composer(s): Herrmann
Participants:  Thomas Band
17)
Composer(s): Thomas
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
18)
aka I would my love
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Text Author: Heine
Participants:  Thomas Band
19)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
20)
Composer(s): Müller
Participants:  Thomas Band
21)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
22)
Composer(s): Hamm
Participants:  Thomas Band
23)
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
24)
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Thomas Band
25)
Composer(s): Strauss
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
26)
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  Thomas Band
27)
Composer(s): Bousquet
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
28)
aka Marche aux flambeaux; Torch song; Torch dance; Fackeltanze
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 June 1868.

“Two grand orchestras, and brilliant illumination, the five hundred additional gas jets which have recently been placed in the Garden alone will be lighted for the first time, filling the grounds with a flood of light and presenting a brilliant coup d’oeil”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 June 1868.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 June 1868, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 30 June 1868.

Includes program.

5)
Review: New York Post, 01 July 1868.

“The gala performance at Central Park Garden last night was in every respect a success. The unusual brilliance of five hundred extra gaslights lit up gaily the handsome concert hall and the cool garden in the rear, and showed to advantage the large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Thomas’s orchestra was relieved by a fine cornet band, which played alternately a long list of choice selections, and both together gave the grand march and chorus from ‘Tannhauser’ and the ‘Fackeltanz’ with thrilling effect.”