Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $2.25 box seats; $.25

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 October 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The same program as for the one hundredth concert; repeated by popular demand.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
aka Czaar und Zimmermann; Die beiden Peter
Composer(s): Lortzing
4)
aka Soldier's dance; Danses militaires; Soldiers' Dances
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
aka nocturne ; notturino;
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
8)
aka Town and country
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
12)
aka Oh dreaded morrow; Terzette and chorus
Composer(s): Weber
13)
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
aka Champagne galop; Champagner Galopp; Champaign
Composer(s): Lumbye

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 22 August 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 August 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 24 August 1868, 4.

“The Central Park Garden concerts, having become an established institution, will be continued under Theodore Thomas until the cold weather drives him to ‘symphony’ for the sympathetic at Steinway Hall.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 August 1868, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 24 August 1868, 6.