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:
3 August 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Oct 1868, 3:00 PM

Program Details

Orchestra comprised of forty-two musicians.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Frederick Letsch
2)
March, unidentified
Composer(s): Reinbold
3)
Athalie, overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
4)
Telegramme, op. 318
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
"Thräne, Die," op. 12
aka Tear; Thraene; Träne; Trane, Die; Thrane, Die
Composer(s): Stigelli
Text Author: Brandes
Participants:  Frederick Letsch
6)
Momento capriccioso, op. 12
aka Caprice, unidentified
Composer(s): Weber
7)
Fantasie on Verdi's Rigoletto
Composer(s): Unknown composer
8)
Gazza ladra, La, overture
aka Diebische Elster, Die; Thieving magpie
Composer(s): Rossini
9)
Wiedersehen
Composer(s): Gung'l
10)
Kinderscenen, "Träumerei"
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
11)
In der Heimat, op. 231
aka Aus der Heimat
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Im Fluge, op. 230
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Fantasia on Meyerbeer's Robert le diable
aka Robert the devil
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 03 October 1868, 1.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 October 1868, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 04 October 1868.

Includes program.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 October 1868.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 05 October 1868, 7.

“The Central Park Garden loses none of its attractiveness, and continues as popular as ever. The two orchestras, under Theodore Thomas, nightly furnish excellent selections from the best authors and the most fastidious cannot fail to be pleased with the programme here offered.”