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:
22 January 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The citations do not indicate which finale from Verdi’s Don Carlos was performed, but Music in Gotham assumes it was that to the fifth act because it is listed in the advertisement as “Großes Finale.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Einzug der Sänger
aka Einzug der Sanger
Composer(s): Hamm
3)
Favorite, La, overture
Composer(s): Donizetti
4)
Wiener Bonbons, op. 307
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Don Carlos, act 5, finale
Composer(s): Verdi
6)
Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Die, overture
aka Creatures of Prometheus; Geschopfe des Prometheus; Prometheus overture
Composer(s): Beethoven
7)
Kinderscenen, "Träumerei"
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
8)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 107, D major. Scherzo
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
Lohengrin, finale
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
11)
Basilisco, Il
Composer(s): Graziani
12)
Carnaval de Venise, Le
aka Variations burlesques; Cara mia mamma; Carnival of Venice
Composer(s): Ernst
13)
Künstler-Quadrille, op. 201
aka Artist's; Artist; Kunstler
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 October 1868, 8.

Program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 October 1868, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 October 1868.