Central Park Band Concert
Event Information
Venue(s):
Central Park Mall
Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
Price: Free
Event Type:
Band
Performance Forces:
Instrumental
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
30 April 2020
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
19 Jun 1869, 3:30 PMProgram Details
Music in Gotham has identified two completely different start times and programs for a concert at the Central Park Mall on 06/26/69. The concert as it is described by this entry was announced in the New York Times. For the alternative version, which was announced in the New York Tribune, see event entry 06/26/69: Second Central Park Mall Concert. The orchestra and conductor are not specifically named in the citations; Music in Gotham assumes them to be Dodworth and his orchestra because they are frequent performers at the Central Park Mall and because there are two pieces by Dodworth on the program.
Performers and/or Works Performed
5)
6)
aka Son and stranger overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
7)
aka Quadrille on airs from Herve's L'Oeil creve
Composer(s): Unknown composer
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Citations
1)
“The Central park Commissioners announce that if the weather be fine there will be music on the Mall at the Park on Saturday next, commencing at 3:30 o’clock. The following is the programme: [lists program].”
2)
Long review about goings-on in the Park, with brief mention of the concert: "All the world and his wife were there yesterday. The Mall was crowded with an immense throng of well dressed people, promenading to and fro or listening to the music of the band."