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:
8 January 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Oct 1868, 3:30 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)
Erinnerung an Petersburg
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)
Capriccio, 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)
Kinderscenen, "Träumerei"
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
10)
In der Heimat, op. 231
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
Im Fluge, op. 230
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Fantasia on Meyerbeer's Robert le diable
aka Robert the devil
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 October 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 October 1868, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 October 1868, 8.

Only citation that includes program.