Thomas Popular Garden Concert: 55th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Manager / Director:
J. [manager] Gosche

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

Price: $.35; $2.35 private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 December 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra; Jules [cornet] Levy

2)

O bitte euch, liebe Vögelein

aka Ye merry birds

Composer(s): Voigt

3)

Nachtlager in Granada, Das, overture

Composer(s): Kreutzer

4)

Composer(s): Gung'l

5)

Reine de Saba, La, ballet

aka Queen of Sheba

Composer(s): Gounod

6)

Alessandro Stradella, overture

Composer(s): Flotow

7)

Stabat Mater, "Cujus animam"

Composer(s): Rossini

Participants: Jules [cornet] Levy

8)

Arm in arm, op. 215

Composer(s): Strauss

9)

S’ giebt nur a Kaiserstadt, s’ giebt nur a Wien, op. 291

aka 'S giebt nur Kaiserstadt, ’s giebt nur ein Wien; Kaiserstadt polka

Composer(s): Strauss

10)

Fantaisie sur Auber's La muette de Portici

Composer(s): Unknown composer

11)

Dichter und Bauer, overture

aka Poet and peasant overture

Composer(s): Suppé

12)

Excelsior, [polka]

Composer(s): Frewin

Participants: Jules [cornet] Levy

13)

Bürgersinn, op. 295

aka Burgersinn

Composer(s): Strauss

14)

Geneviève de Brabant, selection

Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 June 1869, 2.

2)

Announcement: New York Herald, 28 June 1869, 8.

“The Central Park Garden is nightly crowded with the lovers of good music. Boston can boast of its big ‘Jubilee’ [a multi-day festival that took place in June 1868], with its attendant thousands of musicianers, but Thomas and Gosche can boast, with some show of justice, of the quality of the music furnished at their cool retreat near Central Park. Boston certainly was far ahead in quantity, but not in the quality. The latter honor is claimed for the Central Park Garden.”

3)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 June 1869, 7.

4)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 June 1869, 5.

Part of larger paragraph announcing many events. “Summer-night concerts may be enjoyed, as usual, at the Central Park Garden.”

5)

Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 June 1869, 7.