Thomas Popular Garden Concert: Strauss Night

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:
25 January 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

“Grand concert à la Strauss.” As stated in the New York Times announcement, this is the final concert of the season, but Sunday concerts will continue. Additionally, as soon as the Central Park Garden is outfitted for the cold weather, a winter concert season will commence.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Düppeler Sturm
aka Düppeler Sturm-Marsch; Düppler Sturm; Duppeler Sturm; Prussian Army march; Sturin quickstep; Dueppel; Storming of the fortifications at Dueppel; Düppelmarsch; Düppel-Schanzen-Sturm-Marsch; Sturm; Doppler storm
Composer(s): Piefke
3)
Soldaten-Tänze, op. 173
aka Soldier's dance; Danses militaires; Soldiers' Dances
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
Fantasieblümchen, op. 241
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Jocus, op. 216
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Künstler-Leben, op. 316
aka Kunstler-Leben; Artist's life; Kunstler Leben
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
Figaro, op. 320
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
Quadrille on Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène
aka Quadrille on Schöne Zuluna
Composer(s): Unknown composer
9)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
10)
Debatten-Walzer, op. 202
Composer(s): Gung'l
11)
Frauenherz, op. 166
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Kreuzfidel!, op. 301
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Fantasiebilder, op. 151
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Frühlings-Klänge
aka Spring sounds; Sounds of spring; Fruhlings-Klange
Composer(s): Herzog
15)
Sänger, Der, op. 61
aka Sanger, Der, op. 61
Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 October 1868, 2.

“Three concerts will be given at Central Park Garden this week: to-night, Wednesday night and Friday night. This evening the dance music of Strauss will constitute the main feature of the programme. On Wednesday night Handel’s works will be performed, and on Friday evening Liszt’s compositions will have the place of honor. To-morrow night Mr. Thomas will transfer his orchestra to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Madame Lagrange will sing for the first time this season.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 October 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 26 October 1868.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 October 1868, 7.
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 October 1868, 5.

“Mr. Theodore Thomas will give his last popular concert at this establishment to-night; when the selections will be mainly from Strauss. After certain necessary alterations have been made in the Garden, to adapt it to the Winter Season, Mr. Thomas will announce a new series of entertainments. In the meanwhile, the Sunday concerts will be continued as usual.”

6)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 October 1868, 6.