Thomas Popular Garden Concert

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:
12 January 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jul 1869, 3:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1869, 7.

“To-morrow, (Monday,) July 5, TWO GRAND CONCERTS.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 July 1869, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 July 1869, 7.

No program given.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 July 1869, 7.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 06 July 1869, 7.

“The national anniversary was celebrated with fitting splendor and brilliancy at this favorite summer resort of the metropolis. There were two concerts given, one, the matinée, being specially in honor of the day. The beautiful garden in the evening was bathed in light,and east and west it flung its lances of flame like one of those fairy structures which Scherazade [sic] dreamed of during the Hundred Nights. Within, a truly fashionable audience sat at the tables in the hall or promenaded the garden, listening to one of the choicest programmes of Thomas. As the strains of Meyerbeer, Strauss, Auber and Rossini floated out on the evening air, and the clarion notes of the matchless Levy mingled with the incessant crackle and whiz of the fireworks outside, the scene was one calculated to fire the most sluggish blood; and considering that the evening was remarkably pleasant as far as the weather was concerned, the process of firing was comparatively innocuous. The cars being stopped on account of the fireworks further down on the avenue, the audience at the beginning of the concert was not so large as it afterwards became. Theodore Thomas, who has lately recovered from a severe accident, conducted his inimitable orchestra with his well known skill. There were many national melodies scattered through the programme. For a peace jubilee, a summer night’s festival or an asylum during the dog days, commend us Central Park Garden.”