Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $2 extra for private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 May 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Two separate ensembles performed this concert: the Thomas Orchestra and an “orchestra” unnamed by the citations. Music in Gotham understands the second ensemble to be the Thomas Band. Both groups performed the Ernani and Tannhäuser fantasies and the Jubel-Ouvertüre.

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Composer(s): Flotow
4)
aka GeistesSchwingen; Geistes-Schwingen; Spirits Wings
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
aka Lob der Tranen; Tear, The
Composer(s): Schubert
Text Author: Schlegel
6)
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
8)
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee
Composer(s): Weber
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
9)
aka Autumn roses
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Fantasia on themes from Wagner's Tannhauser; Fantasie on themes from Wagner's Tannhäuser
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
11)
Composer(s): Michaelis
12)
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
13)
Composer(s): Offenbach
14)
aka Drommebilleder; Drømme Billeder fantasi; Traumbilder potpourri; Traumbilder selections; Traumbilder fantasie; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter
Composer(s): Lumbye
15)
aka Tear; Thraene; Träne; Trane, Die; Thrane, Die
Composer(s): Stigelli
Text Author: Brandes
16)
aka Madcap galop
Composer(s): Hopkins
17)
aka Victory; March of victory; Friedrich Carl Siegesmarsch; Grand triumph
Composer(s): Bilse

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 26 September 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 October 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 October 1868, 9.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 October 1868, 6.