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, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Orchestra comprised of forty-two musicians.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Henry Schmitz [French horn];  Herr [flautist] Siedler
2)
Central Park Garden
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
3)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Sphären-Klänge, op. 235
aka Spharen-Klange; Spharen Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Fantasie on Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
aka Fantasie on Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Martha, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
7)
"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)
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
8)
Frühlings-Klänge
aka Spring sounds; Sounds of spring; Fruhlings-Klange
Composer(s): Herzog
9)
Fantaisie sur Auber's La muette de Portici
Composer(s): Unknown composer
10)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
11)
Serenade, flute, horn obbligato
aka Romanza
Composer(s): Titl
Participants:  Henry Schmitz [French horn];  Herr [flautist] Siedler
12)
Ersten Curen, Die, op. 261
aka First flirtation; Kuren
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Militärisches Marsch-Potpourri
aka Military march potpourri
Composer(s): Gung'l

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 with program.