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)
Wiedersehen
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)
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.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 June 1869, 7.
3)
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.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 June 1869, 2.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 June 1869, 7.