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
3)
aka Masaniello;
Mute Girl of Portici;
Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
6)
aka Tyrolese song
Composer(s): Proch
7)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
9)
aka Jubel overture;
Jubilee
Composer(s): Weber
10)
Composer(s): Schubert
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
12)
aka Railway bond swindel
Composer(s): Leutner
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
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
16)
aka Sangerlust;
Singers' joy;
Singer's delight;
Classic delight
Composer(s): Herrmann
18)
aka I would my love
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
19)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
21)
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
23)
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
24)
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
27)
Composer(s): Bousquet
28)
aka Marche aux flambeaux;
Torch song;
Torch dance;
Fackeltanze
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
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.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 June 1868, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 30 June 1868.
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.”
