Thomas Popular Garden Concert: 15th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.35; $2.35 private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 September 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 May 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra; Jules [cornet] Levy

2)

Preussens Helden-Marsch

aka Heroic march; Prussia's heroes

Composer(s): Herrmann

3)

Martha, overture

Composer(s): Flotow

4)

Soldaten-Tänze, op. 173

aka Soldier's dance; Danses militaires; Soldiers' Dances

Composer(s): Lanner

5)

Fantasia on themes from Verdi's Il trovatore

Composer(s): Unknown composer

6)

Maximilian Robespierre

Composer(s): Litolff

7)

Hungarian fantasy

aka Air Hongroise

Composer(s): Levy

8)

Telegramme, op. 318

Composer(s): Strauss

9)

Fantasie on Mendelssohn's Ein Sommernachtstraum

aka Midsummer night's dream, A; Songe d'une nuit d'été

Composer(s): Unknown composer

10)

Fra Diavolo, overture

Composer(s): Auber

11)

Composer(s): Levy

12)

Serenade, unidentified

Composer(s): Schubert

13)

Geneviève de Brabant, selection

Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 May 1869, 12.

2)

Announcement: New York Post, 24 May 1869.

“Among the concerts of the week the most attractive are those given every evening by Theodore Thomas at the Central Park Garden, with Mr. Levy as the soloist on the cornet, and a full orchestra to interpret the most admired music of the day.”

3)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 May 1869, 7.